I'm Waiting For My Real Life to Begin

The Station

It's the end of "Sanctity of Human Life Week" - this essay has been burned into my mind since I read it thirty plus years ago.

The Station

What life are you waiting for?

Sanctity of Life Week - What life am I waiting for?

Awesome sound! Signature Sound!

Oh What a Savior

Kung Fu Panda

From the movie "Kung Fu Panda"

Shifu: Master! I have... it's very bad news! 
Oogway: Ah, Shifu. There is just news. There is no good or bad. 
Shifu: Master, your vision. Your vision was right! Tai-Lung has broken out of prison! He's on his way! 
[pause] 
Oogway: That *is* bad news. 

A good teachable moment for Sam (and for me).   We humans want to live as if there is no "good" or "bad" ... but we can't.  We inherently know the difference.

However, I doubt that "Kung Fu Panda" is a reliable source to quote when defending the faith :)

Making Time?

Making time,

Saving time,

Killing time,

Wasting time,

Doing time,

Marking time.

I wonder if "eternal life" is one way of expressing my existence in a way that transcends time? ... where I escape the clock?  ... when my life makes a difference far in excess of the seconds invested?

"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years..." 2 Peter 3:8

My Mom! Newspaper Story Yesterday

72-year-old woman succeeds at holding crippling disease at bay

BLOOMINGTON -- Dee Werry walked from the leg extension machine to the leg curl machine. She was stooped forward and to the left side and took small steps. But that didn’t slow her down. As she walked determinedly from machine to machine — while chatting with her attentive personal trainer, Chris Hallam, who walked beside her — fellow exercisers less than half her age spotted her, smiled and stepped out of her way.

It’s Dee-Time at Gold’s Gym in Bloomington. Dee-Time is 1:30 to about 5 p.m. almost every Monday, Wednesday and Friday when the 72-year-old Bloomington woman is at the fitness center to lift weights, walk up stairs, stretch and do water exercises.

“People look forward to seeing Dee walk through those doors,” said Shannon Wahls, 37, of Bloomington, who befriended Werry about a year ago after they began working out at about the same time. “If it’s 1:40 and she’s not here, we start to wonder ‘Where’s Dee?’”

But Werry is more than a nice older woman who weight lifts. The retired businesswoman exercises to battle a rare disease. And she’s succeeding.

Read the rest of the story here:

Wow!