I just finished a great article by ESPN columnist Rick Reilley. I love to read his stuff. He is a gifted writer. (as I listen to Cartagrapher by E.S. POSTHUMUS...now that is some fine stuff right there! Two brothers who write crazy stuff!!)
His article was titled: The Misbehavior of Athletes.
He gave examples of pro athletes who have undermined the public trust and cheated their sport or spouse. Examples: Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Tiger Woods, Gilbert Arenas.
For every misguided athlete he listed its counterpoint: Ken Griffey Jr., Jack Nicklaus, etc.
He chose to focus upon the glass half full picture when it comes to athletes whom we have a tendency to place upon pedestals.
One reality from his great article is this: for all the bad that seems to happen in our day, there is just as much good happening all around us.
The sun is still coming up in the East. There is sufficient oxygen to breathe. There is someone who loves us completely and there are people that want to be our friends.
There IS good all around us!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Smoked!
Some of the guys stayed after church last week and we played a rousing game of football! I think there was a conspiracy, but on the team I was playing with, we had a good share of the 'wiser' dudes. OK, so we were older!
I'm not sure at what age it happens. It is really a bizarre thing when you realize it for the first
time. I've known it for a few years now. That moment when your brain is still thinking like
a young, twenty-something and your arms and legs are functioning at their true age!
time. I've known it for a few years now. That moment when your brain is still thinking like
a young, twenty-something and your arms and legs are functioning at their true age!
The brain says 'NOW!' The legs say, 'Huh?'
Needless to say, our team got smoked!!!!
I'm putting all the blame for the horrific outcome on the league commish: Jason!!!!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
What A Machine!
My wife hollered for me to come and get the spider!
She is deathly afraid of them. One had made a bummer of a move and
showed up on the wall at the worst time....when she was walking by.
So, I meander up the stairs and here is this tiny, little spider. I was able
to get it into my hands and he wiggled free, hanging by its thread!
After I got him back into my hands he became damaged goods.
As I was walking to the sink to rinse off my hands, I felt this single thread
of a web brushing against one of the hairs on the back of my hand (sounds
gross!). It startled me! It actually felt like something much larger than
a single strand from that teeny tiny spider.
I couldn't beleive that one single thread from that single little spider could
make such a commotion of nerve impulses as it brushed against a single
hair on my hand! Blew me away as I thought about the thousands if not
tens of thousands of electrical charges taking place within my body and
brain just from one single spider web thread touching my hand.
The Bible says that we are '..fearfully and wonderfully made.'
Fo sho!
The next time you think about it, thank God for your one-of-a-kind
machine called your body!
God does good work!!!
She is deathly afraid of them. One had made a bummer of a move and
showed up on the wall at the worst time....when she was walking by.
So, I meander up the stairs and here is this tiny, little spider. I was able
to get it into my hands and he wiggled free, hanging by its thread!
After I got him back into my hands he became damaged goods.
As I was walking to the sink to rinse off my hands, I felt this single thread
of a web brushing against one of the hairs on the back of my hand (sounds
gross!). It startled me! It actually felt like something much larger than
a single strand from that teeny tiny spider.
I couldn't beleive that one single thread from that single little spider could
make such a commotion of nerve impulses as it brushed against a single
hair on my hand! Blew me away as I thought about the thousands if not
tens of thousands of electrical charges taking place within my body and
brain just from one single spider web thread touching my hand.
The Bible says that we are '..fearfully and wonderfully made.'
Fo sho!
The next time you think about it, thank God for your one-of-a-kind
machine called your body!
God does good work!!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wacky Emails
I had a new email in my Spam folder the other day. I find it quite amazing that people would actually click and open one of these whacky wacked out deals. You get them. I get them. Everybody gets them! They are peddling nasty stuff, to bogus financial junk, to meds, to whatever.
But the one I received the other day made me laugh out loud! It was trying to hook me up with some RITALIN!!!!! Hilarious!
How did they know I ran out??????
Gotta go. ADD/AHAD/AHDL/....KICKING IN!!!!!!
But the one I received the other day made me laugh out loud! It was trying to hook me up with some RITALIN!!!!! Hilarious!
How did they know I ran out??????
Gotta go. ADD/AHAD/AHDL/....KICKING IN!!!!!!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
RESOLUTIONS!
Hey, if you are into New Year's resos, here's a few I came across!
1. Stop eating boogers- Cameron 6 years old..
2. Stop passing gas in church- Melissa 10 years old
3. Stop drinking out of the milk container- Rick 36 years old.
4. Then stop putting back the empty container- Rick 36 years old.
5. Stop eating other employee's lunches out of the frig- 28 yr old worker at a food distribution plant
6. I will balance my checkbook ………………on my nose.
7. I will think of a new password, other than the word password.
8. I will always....always check for paper, when leaving the bathroom.
9. I will work with neglected children......my own.
10. I will not sit in the living room all day in my pj’s; instead I will be moving the computer into the bedroom.
11. I will work hard to become a legal advisor and push for the immediate restriction of anything Twilight.
12. I will be a millionaire on Farmville.
13. I will not ask my fellow taxpayers to bail me out of anything.
14. I will not text or email my spouse or children while sitting in another room.
Happy New Year!!!!
1. Stop eating boogers- Cameron 6 years old..
2. Stop passing gas in church- Melissa 10 years old
3. Stop drinking out of the milk container- Rick 36 years old.
4. Then stop putting back the empty container- Rick 36 years old.
5. Stop eating other employee's lunches out of the frig- 28 yr old worker at a food distribution plant
6. I will balance my checkbook ………………on my nose.
7. I will think of a new password, other than the word password.
8. I will always....always check for paper, when leaving the bathroom.
9. I will work with neglected children......my own.
10. I will not sit in the living room all day in my pj’s; instead I will be moving the computer into the bedroom.
11. I will work hard to become a legal advisor and push for the immediate restriction of anything Twilight.
12. I will be a millionaire on Farmville.
13. I will not ask my fellow taxpayers to bail me out of anything.
14. I will not text or email my spouse or children while sitting in another room.
Happy New Year!!!!
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