No pics no proofMy left shin from the ice berg incident last Wed. Next time I will bring my camera with me to take a few pics of those icebergs. It is a weird thing. A lady beside that trail was saying that the city put them there. These icebergs are one foot thick. To get ice this thick it has to be by the lake. Why would the city dig up the lake and dump the ice there? Makes no sense to me. 🙂...
Hollow Worship
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Today’s sermon gripped me to the point where I couldn’t sing the response song. I felt hollow. I felt fake and I felt superficial. Words coming out of my mouth seemed meaningless. I was giving God lip-service. The pastor preached on worship and brought out a passage from Isaiah 1:11-19 11 “The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have...
A run. On Wed night, I went out for a run. It was snowing. After crossing the road and almost hit by a car, I twisted my left ankle. I stopped. Rotate my ankle. Ok it doesn’t hurt when I run. I keep going. I run down a trail and along a river which I had run along for many years. It was snowing. Light snow. It covered the ground. I was on the trail and before I knew it I slipped and fell. I...
Valentine Tri There was a Valentine Tri at one of the local University. I was planning to go. It is based on time and not distance. For each leg (swim, bike and run), you have 15 min. They measure the distance and give you points depend on how much you covered. I was thinking about entering that. Then thought, if I do that, I might as well do it on my own. I can go much longer than that. This...
A little sense of community
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Last night as I was leaving the Y and walking to my car, I thought about the sense of community that I experience outside of church. It was in 2006 when I started to seriously train for triathlon. What this means is a daily routine of exercise and a number of habits(rest, stretch, eating healthy etc.) that I changed to support me in that. It was also the time I was saving up to fix my teeth. I...
If the family were a Church…
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Picked this post from Roy McClung’s blog. We often think of church as a family. What if we think of family as a church…. Here’s one possible scenario: Two young men walked in the den where grandma was watching her “stories”. They shuffled their feet, made small talk, but finally got down to business. “Grandma, we’ve all talked about it, and we don’t...
Confession, my hinderance to community living
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In my previous post, I mentioned about Acts 2 Fellowship. Tonight, over a chat with a few brothers, I made a confession. The fact is a part of me is repulse by such a fellowship is possible. In Greek, the word for fellowship is koinonia. Based on Wiki, koinonia “implies the spirit of generous sharing or the act of giving as contrasted with selfish getting.” I envision if Acts 2...
Believer or a follower?
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A few days ago during lunch, I asked a brother the difference between a follower and a disciple of Christ. To be honest, I am quite sarcastic as I asked him. I knew the answer already. However, I want to see from his point of view. If there is a weakness in me, it is fact that I made a judgment too quickly. He said that a Christian should be both. Sadly, we are living in a culture, church...
Normal For my transplant doctor to monitor my health, I have to do blood work every 3 months. In Dec, the blood work was a bit off. They told me to take it again a couple of weeks later. I took the blood work second time in Jan 2. Normally they will call me and let me know the blood results. After a month of not hearing back, I left a voice message to make sure everything is ok. Today, I got a...
Still alive… Wow. It has been a month since I posted. Yup, I am still here. Doing about the same old same old. On Sat, Aaron and I went to Gary for the 2nd Annual Alton Half Ironman. It was originally hosted at Darren. But unfortunately he got struck with the winter bug (flu) and was out of commission. Gary generously offered up his place and we had a one long training session. The plan was...
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