somedays it comes easy
somedays it comes hard

and some days it just don't come at all. 

Christmas decorations are always prettier when there's snow

The run may be more brutal, but it certainly looks more impressive to onlookers if you can see your breath condensing on the wind... and the steam coming off your body.

People may get tired of encouraging you to go on when you continually come back with major achievment after major ( Read more... )

Once, a couple years ago, I decided to pull a little fun for an undergraduate course at MSU since we were going to have to sit through a full 3-hour lecture and lab on Halloween.  So I made this deal with a buddy of mine, who was bout my height...

He put on a full-body gorilla costume and went to my 3 hour class and sat in my usual seat.  Grunting ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that whatever you Thought you ate today, you actually ate Corn. I'll embellish this later...but just so you know, just about every bit of food everywhere has corn in it. Yeah. You've been eating just about nothing but corn.

Its even in Twinkies.

Why do we ask, "lead me not into temptation.." ?

Don't we trust the Lord to do what is right? If the Lord is all good, then he would never do that to us, and we would truly be as sheep, just following the flow...

But temptation is everywhere... people succumb to different levels of temption all the time. That cookie you promised you wouldn't ( Read more... )

Good deeds, truly good deeds, are anonymous faceless things. When you do good you are invisible, your face blurred and lost among the background static of life. .. sure you get a 'thanks' sometimes or people will nod toward you, but that soon dies away..the recognition is silent. Good acts and deeds make you the shadow on the wall... Being the ( Read more... )

"The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg" - Unknown ( Read more... )

Have you never turned your face toward the sky in a storm, hoping to glimpse God before the icy rain forces your eyes shut or the lightning blinds you back to the earth? Have you never done this, just to prove that you were alive?

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh - Oscar Wilde

Liking the violent and sudden changes in weather that we seem to be getting today. It started at 70 degrees with nice sun shine and a gentle caressing breeze...by lunch it was 40 with a flash flood and some nasty thunder rumbles...now i'd say its about 53 with gray skies and not so gentle winds...

Thing is, you're supposed to get testy and upset and feel weak and lost and confused and hurt and happy and all sorts of things.  You're supposed to worry and you're supposed to wonder - because nothing is perfect, but also because its love.  you're heart is supposed to be in it, and when you've got your heart and soul in something that you're ( Read more... )