We kick off a new series this Sunday on the topic of HEROES. It's going to be great. We will be using the TV series, by the same name, as our springboard.
Have you ever been a hero? Have you seen someone else be a hero? Tell me about it. I'd like to hear the stories.
Being a hero is simpler than you think. You can make a huge difference...today!!!
Be A Hero!!
MTC!
Mark
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
NEW SCHOOL/OLD SCHOOL
I'm going back to school!
This time to teach.
It's been a few years since my graduation from graduate school, like 18 years!!! Since then the learning hasn't stopped and the tests have had to be passed and average grades were unacceptable and the finals were a bit more intense, but that is how life is....it's still old school.
In thinking about going back to a university campus an teaching a course, it is amazing to consider how the world is so much different now. We didn't have the Internet. We typed our term papers and dissertations on a typewriter. Starbucks didn't own the universe and cell phones were the size of a large brick!
Even with all the changes in our world, school is still school and we have to learn. We have to pass. We should excel. Life is like old school. Things change so fast, but we still need to grow and learn and pass and we intuitively want to excel.
Just as in any learning environment we need to surround ourselves with the correct influences and tools to help us achieve our optimum. Get the right people around you. Listen to the positive and don't dwell on the negative. See your preferred future, study and work hard and go for it!
Life is like school: it all keeps changing, but the basic elements are still the same and we still get grades!
I need to go because I need to see if my wife has any lunch money for me!
MTC!
Mark
This time to teach.
It's been a few years since my graduation from graduate school, like 18 years!!! Since then the learning hasn't stopped and the tests have had to be passed and average grades were unacceptable and the finals were a bit more intense, but that is how life is....it's still old school.
In thinking about going back to a university campus an teaching a course, it is amazing to consider how the world is so much different now. We didn't have the Internet. We typed our term papers and dissertations on a typewriter. Starbucks didn't own the universe and cell phones were the size of a large brick!
Even with all the changes in our world, school is still school and we have to learn. We have to pass. We should excel. Life is like old school. Things change so fast, but we still need to grow and learn and pass and we intuitively want to excel.
Just as in any learning environment we need to surround ourselves with the correct influences and tools to help us achieve our optimum. Get the right people around you. Listen to the positive and don't dwell on the negative. See your preferred future, study and work hard and go for it!
Life is like school: it all keeps changing, but the basic elements are still the same and we still get grades!
I need to go because I need to see if my wife has any lunch money for me!
MTC!
Mark
Monday, January 7, 2008
TWO ADVIL AND A NIGHT'S REST
Karen and I took our dog for a walk late yesterday afternoon. Down the street, down the hill and back home again. It is one mile each way.
On the way back, I decided power walk up the hill (whatever that means!!! I just walked faster and tried to maintain it) I did until my shins felt like they were ready to explode!
Later in the evening I couldn't walk correctly. My shins were killing me. When I would walk, my feet would flop as if I had flippers on. I felt ridiculous and the ridicule I was enduring from my wife didn't help.
Two Advil and off to bed.
It made me think, however.
There are millions of people, in America alone, who suffer with physical ailments that would love to have gone out for a walk yesterday. Stuff in and attached to their body doesn't work correctly. They can't go out for a walk. Never will be able to.
I was reminded again how much I take my health and ability to enjoy life, and do most anything I want to with a healthy body, for granted.
So, when you walk today or play with your kids or hit the gym, don't forget to thank God for your health and the body he gave you that works exceptionally well. You are a very wealthy person to have so much!
BTW, my shins are better. Thanks for asking!!
MTC!
Mark
On the way back, I decided power walk up the hill (whatever that means!!! I just walked faster and tried to maintain it) I did until my shins felt like they were ready to explode!
Later in the evening I couldn't walk correctly. My shins were killing me. When I would walk, my feet would flop as if I had flippers on. I felt ridiculous and the ridicule I was enduring from my wife didn't help.
Two Advil and off to bed.
It made me think, however.
There are millions of people, in America alone, who suffer with physical ailments that would love to have gone out for a walk yesterday. Stuff in and attached to their body doesn't work correctly. They can't go out for a walk. Never will be able to.
I was reminded again how much I take my health and ability to enjoy life, and do most anything I want to with a healthy body, for granted.
So, when you walk today or play with your kids or hit the gym, don't forget to thank God for your health and the body he gave you that works exceptionally well. You are a very wealthy person to have so much!
BTW, my shins are better. Thanks for asking!!
MTC!
Mark
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
PAINTING A PICTURE
I'm not good with paint. I'm not even good penmanship that one can decipher. My hands do OK on the piano, but ask me to paint a picture....look out! Someones gonna get hurt!
We don't have to be great artists, yet we can still paint a picture. we can paint a picture in our minds of what certain things should be and look like and do; our preferred future.
For example, we can paint a picture of what our family should look like and accomplish and how we should function with each other. We can paint a picture of what our home will be like, what kind of a neighbor we will be, what kind of church we will become.
Once we see the picture, becoming 'all that', is a matter of steady forward motion. There was a writer in the bible who basically said the same thing, but he talked about moving forward toward the 'prize'.
What pictures do you have already? What pictures still need to be painted? Get out the brushes and the paint...paint a masterpiece!!!
MTC!
Mark
We don't have to be great artists, yet we can still paint a picture. we can paint a picture in our minds of what certain things should be and look like and do; our preferred future.
For example, we can paint a picture of what our family should look like and accomplish and how we should function with each other. We can paint a picture of what our home will be like, what kind of a neighbor we will be, what kind of church we will become.
Once we see the picture, becoming 'all that', is a matter of steady forward motion. There was a writer in the bible who basically said the same thing, but he talked about moving forward toward the 'prize'.
What pictures do you have already? What pictures still need to be painted? Get out the brushes and the paint...paint a masterpiece!!!
MTC!
Mark
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
GREAT GIFTS!
Well, the Christmas decor is almost all put away. A few things left to take down and store, but other than that, it's a done deal!
Christmas was as usual, stupendous!! Great food! Great fun! Great times! Great gifts!
Gifts.
We all got them.
At birth.
God doled them out.
You have them.
I've got a few.
Gifts.
What you are good at and with effort, have become great at.
My wife painted my office wall this past week. She has no training save for painting other peoples walls. She is great at it. My walls look like leather. She did this funky deal in a house in Enumclaw where she took crepe paper and treated it and stuck it on the walls and then painted it. It looks like some tricked out stone work. Amazing!!!!!
The point is this: she has worked very hard to perfect a gift that God gave her at birth. She is way good at it. But, she has been diligent to hone it and make it keen. But that is not her greatest gift. She is the most pleasant person I have ever been around. Her smile and ability to make the stranger feel accepted is by far her greatest gift. She is a great example to me!
So, you have some things you are good at, but are they your greatest gifts? What are they? Are you diligently perfecting them? Are you using them to help others? If you got it, flaunt it! Great gifts make great impacts!! Go for it!!
MTC!
Mark
Christmas was as usual, stupendous!! Great food! Great fun! Great times! Great gifts!
Gifts.
We all got them.
At birth.
God doled them out.
You have them.
I've got a few.
Gifts.
What you are good at and with effort, have become great at.
My wife painted my office wall this past week. She has no training save for painting other peoples walls. She is great at it. My walls look like leather. She did this funky deal in a house in Enumclaw where she took crepe paper and treated it and stuck it on the walls and then painted it. It looks like some tricked out stone work. Amazing!!!!!
The point is this: she has worked very hard to perfect a gift that God gave her at birth. She is way good at it. But, she has been diligent to hone it and make it keen. But that is not her greatest gift. She is the most pleasant person I have ever been around. Her smile and ability to make the stranger feel accepted is by far her greatest gift. She is a great example to me!
So, you have some things you are good at, but are they your greatest gifts? What are they? Are you diligently perfecting them? Are you using them to help others? If you got it, flaunt it! Great gifts make great impacts!! Go for it!!
MTC!
Mark
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2008!
When I was a little kid, my graduation year from high school seemed like a long way off. Well, we blew through that and have rolled into the 21st Century! I just have one ?: Has Y2K hit yet????? That went pretty well!
Have you made a list of what you will do/accomplish that you did not get done last year?
I've never been a big 'resolutions' person, but I do believe in the list idea. Not a lengthy, unattainable list of lofty goals, but rather a short list of things I really need to nail down.
Maybe you could have one item for the following: physical, mental, spiritual.
Don't let the list drive you, you drive the list!
Hey, have a great day today and watch tons of football!!! (that's on my list!)
MTC!
Mark
When I was a little kid, my graduation year from high school seemed like a long way off. Well, we blew through that and have rolled into the 21st Century! I just have one ?: Has Y2K hit yet????? That went pretty well!
Have you made a list of what you will do/accomplish that you did not get done last year?
I've never been a big 'resolutions' person, but I do believe in the list idea. Not a lengthy, unattainable list of lofty goals, but rather a short list of things I really need to nail down.
Maybe you could have one item for the following: physical, mental, spiritual.
Don't let the list drive you, you drive the list!
Hey, have a great day today and watch tons of football!!! (that's on my list!)
MTC!
Mark
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