Truest Truth

Here is something to ponder. -While sitting in traffic at a redlight, I glance out my right window and see a women limping from an acident. -While running on a treadmill, I look out the gym window to see a man with no legs -strolling along in a wheelchair. -While racing to work late yesterday in the rain, another car speeding around the bend alomst collides with me and my wife. ...And then I think of these words,

"BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD -THERE GO I"

Fatigue makes cowards of us all...

Those are the words of the great coach Vince Lombardi. The first time i heard them was over Christmas break while in college. I worked in a trailer making fruit baskets and after making a million of them in the freezing cold my boss would often yell in my direction that famous phrase. Thinking of that phrase and the truth it holds leads me to think that one of a person's greatest virtues will be PERSEVERANCE. I think that in life we start things and make commitments that in time start to wear us out. Our once enthusiasm is gone and the gas tank is reading E.

-I like to think of these times as seasons in our lives-

As we all know, seasons will come and go. So I say press on and I bet in time your season will pass. Stay focused on what brought you to the place you currently at. Renew you passion and vision. Persevere to the end!

Baseball gloves and karate

The sun is finally out in western Pa. If your not from here, then you don't understand that we have to take advantage of things like this because it is a fact that this part of the United States gets the least amount of sunny days.
Right after work, my wife and I grab our baseball gloves, a Frisbee and went out to a nearby park to...well, play.

-Something great was happening as we were our running around and acting like fools in front of a bunch of "New Galilee hoods."

As we tossed the baseball around, tried to throw the Frisbee in the wind (I got hit in the jaw) , and practiced karate;

the bond between us was growing, our love for each other was blossoming.

I am grateful for the time spent with her yesterday out in that field.

Marriage is great and I have a great partner to live it out with!

Where is your Heart?

At first glance, this seems elementary. It's beating in my chest right now! Correct. But my question is more in the line of what someone would say to their lover on Valentines Day. Like, "I love you with all my heart." We know what this means. I love you with everything that I am, my whole being. Following this thought I wanted to write a little. Jesus said, "For where you treasure is there will your heart be found also." Pretty insightful. Martin Luther said that the best way to gauge the human heart was by two things...

1. Time

2. Money

If we think about these two categories they are very telling about a person. TIME: Just write down what you do on a daily basis, hour by hour. And then at the end of the month look at what things you spend the most time doing. Easy enough. I'll bet the things you spend the most time on are the things where your heart is invested. MONEY: Same idea here. Write down all the things you have spent your hard earned cash on and at the end of the week or month, wala! Your priorities will rise up to meet your eyes like the morning sun.

Here are some of the best things said about this topic:

-"Activities of life become a manifestation of what lies in the individuals heart." -"When someone sells his heart to someone or something, every action of life becomes a manifestation, proof of purchase, of the sale." -"What is dear to man, that is his god." I'm sure this comes as a challenge to most of us. What is ruling your heart? Or better said, "Who is ruling your heart?"

Danger!

A STORY: A man wanted to find the most dangerous word in the Bible and after much time came up with the word tomorrow. It is a thief, he said, that word robs dreamers of their dreams and the talented of their greatest achievements. C.H. Spurgeon once said, "tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow! Alas, tomorrow never comes! It is in no calender except the almanac of fools!" THE APPLICATION: Life is so short. I wonder what you have been putting off? I wonder what desires and dreams you have never pursued? I wonder if there is love in your heart to give? You never know about tomorrow; do it now...