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October 15, 2008

Making Yourself Miserable

One of the daily devotionals that I read is from Elisabeth Elliot – it is always refreshing, often challenging and very inspiring.  This mornings entry was simple, yet profound and true.  Are you making yourself miserable today?

Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable

Count your troubles, name them one by one–at the breakfast table, if anybody will [...]

September 23, 2008

Fat Face Update – Back at it!

For those of you who have missed the “Fat Face” updates (although no one has commented – where are my “virtual” accountability partners?) - here we go.
The past two months have been…hmmm…shall we say….pathetic.
Between our summer camping vacation and summer camp, a trip to NYC, my birthday and just plain lack of motivation, I have been [...]

July 4, 2008

Shaking my head

As we were heading out the door to celebrate the 4th of July in Red Bluff with my in-laws, the girls and I ran over to Old Navy to pick up a few patriotic shirts. In previous years, Old Navy has always had fun, festive and affordable shirts and so I assumed it would be a [...]

June 9, 2008

Who knew?

I just ran across an article on people who live to be 100.    Of course there were the obvious things like eating “heart healthy” and watching your waistline  –  but look at this one –
Giving birth after age 40 more than quadruples a woman’s chances of living to 100.
You can read the article here
Wow!  [...]

June 2, 2008

Fat Face Update – June 2

“And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”   James 1:4 
Endurance – that is what I need to continue to work towards achieving my weight loss and health goals.  This month despite continuing to be self disciplined in my eating and exercising (except for the last [...]

May 19, 2008

The thrill of victory!

High school sports – there’s nothing quite like ‘em.
I have spent much of my life playing, coaching and now regularly attending high school athletic events.  I was on the swim team and played field hockey in high school (and college too).  As a youth pastor I attended high school sporting events all over the city to [...]

February 26, 2008

Baby brother update

Many of you have been asking how the adoption is coming along.  For an update as of last week – go to www.babybrother.wordpress.com.  Please pray for us :

as we are ready to begin the last thing we have to accomplish – our home study.  We have no idea what to expect.

for the remaining money to be provided [...]

January 21, 2008

Caught Up

As promised…I have posted about many of our Christmas season family traditions. (not all believe it or not – so you will just have to wait until next Christmas to hear about the remaining few!)  I have back dated the posts to when they actually happened – so if you want to see them all,  you can – [...]