I have been biking into work every other day. My body is telling me it’s not ready for hardcore biking but I keep trying to assure it that it really is. I have put down 120 miles in the last 9 days alone (and plan to push that number to about 120 miles for 5 [...]
We were singing some songs today before going out to pray for people. One of the songs was “Open the Floodgates of Heaven”. This song had a profoundly different impact on me following New Orleans than it ever did before it. As it talks about flooding, I see water 30 feet deep engulfing houses, businesses, [...]
I finally got around to revising my term paper for Senior Seminar. It is about the negative effects of globalization. I am publishing it on here as an Adobe PDF file. The World as We Globalized It [Revised - Graded]
This year, I have decided to try various ethnic cuisines. Each Saturday (or Sunday..) (that I am in Grand Rapids at least), I try to get to a nice little (preferably not a chain) restaurant. April 29: I went to the Bombay Cuisine in Eastown. I can’t remember the name of what I got, but [...]
In order to train for the upcoming MS-150 Bike Trip, I am going to start biking to work. Today was my first day of biking in. The ride, although hard at first, levels out for a nice enjoyable ride. The best part of my trip this morning was passing a gas station that was selling [...]
I have been asking God if I am where He wants me to be and some other questions about the direction of my life. In prayer a little while back God said to me, “All things will become apparent shortly.” Which, to some extent, they did. I have still been searching to see if I [...]
I left for Cincy at around 12 pm and arrived at 6 pm on Friday. I met Tim at his apartment, we went to dinner at Qdoba and the headed downtown to check out Conrad Herwig with the Phil DeGreg Trio at the Blue Wisp (thanks to Dyah for the plug). I really enjoyed the [...]
I’ve been looking at the storm clouds both literally and hypothetically. Work has been one deluge after another. I have really let the world get me down. My insistence to focus on “should be” and “should have been” scenarios really left me feeling empty and bitter. It all came boiling up inside me today when [...]
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