I have a friend from work who want to try and do a Triathlon. I have helped a few people in the past reach their goal of completing a triathlon. So it was nothing for me to tell her I would help her. So today she met me at the gym I train at and I just had her follow me and train along with me. On Monday's I do a strength training and did my normal routine of, Dips,Pull ups, Chin ups, Squats, Lunges and Bench press. Then we moved to the Treadmill (or the dreadmill, same thing) I noticed that she was running flat footed which I had never seen before. So I pulled her off the treadmill and went to the indoor track where we worked on proper running form. I taught her how to run on the balls of her feet instead of flat footed. Then back to the dreadmill for a 30 minute run (she is in the National Guard and is in good shape already) After the run she said that was the best run she ever did and it felt so natural. Not sure if it was because of my great coaching abilities or if she was so used to running bad that the good form felt better? Anyway after the run I met her at the pool. Before we started to swim she said she had a hard time keeping her head underwater. So I knew the first thing I had to do was to teach her how to breathe. I told her that swim breathing is backwards. You breathe out you nose (underwater) and in your mouth (preferably out of the water). So I had her practice this while I did my drills. She said, I finally get it now. I said good and then I gave her a pull drill and a kick drill. After it was all said and done she thanked me for all my help. She also said I really helped her allot. As I walked away I thought I really didn't do anything. She did all the work I just told her what I know.
You know our God is like that. He tells us what He knows. He tells us how to live. How to talk. How to treat each other. He has instructions for everything we do in life. God gave us the Word of God. The Holy Bible is life's, "How to Manual on Life". I think it is funny how we as Christians spend so much money on how to books for our lives. I am not saying that these books are wrong, I buy these books as well.(allot of these books are based on Scripture as well) I just wonder if we as God's children would seek God's advice by just reading His Word and Praying. (praying = talking to God, Reading the Word is God talking to us) I think if we spent more time doing this we could get the same advice that the authors of the books we buy get with the added bonus of spending time with our Great Saviour.
So until next time I will continue to seek Him and His will for my life as I Stare at Lines. (the Word of God. The only line, path and direction I need.)
Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Time of Reuniting
With Tri-Season just around the corner one of the things I love the most next to racing is meeting people. I love going to races and meeting new people and then reuniting with people I have met in the past. I love talking to the new people and learn about what they are doing, whether it is how many races they have done or if it is their first race. The I also love meeting the people I have met at previous races and we get to talk to about what we are doing now and what races we have done. It is kind of weird but we get to bond over something that we have in common.
Every Sunday I look forward to going to Elevate Church. It is a place where I get to hang out and worship God with some of the most incredible people I know. I get to catch up with people I like hanging out with. It is so awesome to just hang out with God's people and praise God for what he has done in our life, and yes maybe pray for those who are hurting or in need of God's help. Elevate for me is a place that I always look forward to going to every Sunday and when I am not there I feel like I am missing out on something. Once again it is a place where I get to bond with people over something we have in common.
One day though I when I pass from this earth or Jesus comes and gets me. Either way I am gonna be going to heaven. When I get there I know that I will see Jesus for the first time. I will get to walk on the streets of Gold and I will be in the presence of God. I will also get to meet all the people I have met in the past. All the people I have led to Jesus, all the Sunday school kids and Jr. church kids I have taught Jesus to. We will talk about the victories and the defeats. We will discuss our failures and our successes as well. Then we will stand in eternity and Praise the Living God who gave us all the blessings that we have received and will receive.Yes, we will have a time of bonding over the One who Gave us Life.
I look forward to the day when all this takes place and know this. I will continue to Stare at Lines til this time comes.
Every Sunday I look forward to going to Elevate Church. It is a place where I get to hang out and worship God with some of the most incredible people I know. I get to catch up with people I like hanging out with. It is so awesome to just hang out with God's people and praise God for what he has done in our life, and yes maybe pray for those who are hurting or in need of God's help. Elevate for me is a place that I always look forward to going to every Sunday and when I am not there I feel like I am missing out on something. Once again it is a place where I get to bond with people over something we have in common.
One day though I when I pass from this earth or Jesus comes and gets me. Either way I am gonna be going to heaven. When I get there I know that I will see Jesus for the first time. I will get to walk on the streets of Gold and I will be in the presence of God. I will also get to meet all the people I have met in the past. All the people I have led to Jesus, all the Sunday school kids and Jr. church kids I have taught Jesus to. We will talk about the victories and the defeats. We will discuss our failures and our successes as well. Then we will stand in eternity and Praise the Living God who gave us all the blessings that we have received and will receive.Yes, we will have a time of bonding over the One who Gave us Life.
I look forward to the day when all this takes place and know this. I will continue to Stare at Lines til this time comes.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Needing Some Inspiration.
Today I started my triathlon training for the 2011 season. So while I am writing this I am watching the 2010 Ford Ironman Championship in Kona, Hawaii. For those of you who don't know me this is my goal. My journey and maybe my vision quest. This is probably the one thing I humanly want more than anything else. Although I will always want to walk in the will of God .I have both 2009 and 2010 the 70.3 and the Ironman World Championships. I have kept them on my DVR just for these moments. I watch them to get myself motivated, and they help inspire me with the behind the scenes stories. I love being pumped up it helps me get my training focused. I have some goals for this year and I am ready to move it up a notch. This year my race schedule may be smaller but my races are bigger. I will do 1 Sprint, 1 Olympic, 1 70.3 and finally the TTT in North Carolina. I have some goals, and some desired finishes but most of all I just want to Honor God with my life. Racing has become secondary to winning. This is a new area of my life. I have ever been this way in my life about anything. To me winning was everything, but now I want to race to Honor God with my life instead.
The last year of my life I feel like I have grown-up a little. You see Triathlon was my life. It was what defined me. Now being a Christian is what I desire to define me, and being a triathlete is now my hobby. I have seen my life change so much in the last year. I would have never thought I would be where I am today. I defiantly didn't see writing this blog. I didn't think serving God would be my priority. God has blessed my life more than I defiantly deserve. I know God is not finished with me yet but I have some dreams and goals of things I desire to do for God. While I am not sure of my direction and destination but I do know one thing. If I stay faithful and trust in God with all my heart and soul He will direct my path.( Prov. 3:5) As Long as I continue to Stare At Lines He will direct my path.
The last year of my life I feel like I have grown-up a little. You see Triathlon was my life. It was what defined me. Now being a Christian is what I desire to define me, and being a triathlete is now my hobby. I have seen my life change so much in the last year. I would have never thought I would be where I am today. I defiantly didn't see writing this blog. I didn't think serving God would be my priority. God has blessed my life more than I defiantly deserve. I know God is not finished with me yet but I have some dreams and goals of things I desire to do for God. While I am not sure of my direction and destination but I do know one thing. If I stay faithful and trust in God with all my heart and soul He will direct my path.( Prov. 3:5) As Long as I continue to Stare At Lines He will direct my path.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Restoration
Psalms 51:11-12 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. (12) Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit. (KJV)
A little over a year ago I was just going through the motions as a Christian. You see a long time ago I was called by God to preach His word. To serve Him full time in the ministry, and as I said last week I just quit one day. Well actually it didn't happen in just one day. It happened over a period of time. You see I let somethings get in my way and that allowed me get distracted. Then when I was least prepared to defend myself, and when temptations came it was to late I was far from God.
So for the next 20 years I wandered in the wilderness of life like the children of Israel. I now find myself looking back at my life and seeing the same mistakes in my life. That the children of Israel made in theirs. I also see how David a man after God's own heart made several mistakes and yet here in Psalms 51 David seek restoration with God. While I did not seek restoration for the 20 years I've wasted, nor was God in my thoughts during this period of my life. Within this last year while I did seek God. for some strange reason I did not seek restoration. Although I did ask God to forgive me for my transgressions and I now seek God's will for my life. My quest was not for restoration, but God is slowly restoring me to my original calling. On February 13th I will be speaking in a Church. for the first time in over 22 years.
I am not saying I will be fully restored to the full time ministry. Although I have not ruled this out, and I have given my life back to Christ to be a willing to servant of God and do His will. I will seek to serve him whether it is doing the work I do at Elevate Church or speaking a message in a Church. or some type of Christain setting. I am seeking restoration of my soul 1st and my calling 2nd. So as for now my Journey is to follow Christ and His perfect will for me by Staring at Lines.
A little over a year ago I was just going through the motions as a Christian. You see a long time ago I was called by God to preach His word. To serve Him full time in the ministry, and as I said last week I just quit one day. Well actually it didn't happen in just one day. It happened over a period of time. You see I let somethings get in my way and that allowed me get distracted. Then when I was least prepared to defend myself, and when temptations came it was to late I was far from God.
So for the next 20 years I wandered in the wilderness of life like the children of Israel. I now find myself looking back at my life and seeing the same mistakes in my life. That the children of Israel made in theirs. I also see how David a man after God's own heart made several mistakes and yet here in Psalms 51 David seek restoration with God. While I did not seek restoration for the 20 years I've wasted, nor was God in my thoughts during this period of my life. Within this last year while I did seek God. for some strange reason I did not seek restoration. Although I did ask God to forgive me for my transgressions and I now seek God's will for my life. My quest was not for restoration, but God is slowly restoring me to my original calling. On February 13th I will be speaking in a Church. for the first time in over 22 years.
I am not saying I will be fully restored to the full time ministry. Although I have not ruled this out, and I have given my life back to Christ to be a willing to servant of God and do His will. I will seek to serve him whether it is doing the work I do at Elevate Church or speaking a message in a Church. or some type of Christain setting. I am seeking restoration of my soul 1st and my calling 2nd. So as for now my Journey is to follow Christ and His perfect will for me by Staring at Lines.
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