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Race coming up
Posted in: Races, Training by admin on November 24, 2008
Ran a 4 miler today and felt pretty good. The weather is perfect right now to run outside. Very cool with warm sunshine. A Colorado trademark and awesome it is! Lucy ran with me also, and she did pretty good. Usually she poops out after a couple of miles but maybe she is getting in shape. Ready for the Turket Trot on Thanksgiving. Then it will be time to PIG OUT!!!
Beautiful day for a run
Posted in: Training by Stephen on November 19, 2008
Pushed my mileage up a little today. Almost a 7 miler. Ran the Santa Fe trail close to our house. It goes into the Air Force Academy grounds and is very beautiful. Saw a bunch of airplanes pulling gliders today and a bunch of parachuters. Also had a deer jump out in front of me, but it happened too fast to get it on the movie.
Letter from Ricardo
Posted in: Compassion by Connie on November 09, 2008
We got a letter from Ricardo (in El Salvador) the other day. He is one of the kids we sponsor through Compassion. I met Ricardo the last time I traveled to El Salvador. The church and Compassion Student Center was amazing! What $1/day can do. Those “mentors” mentioned in the letter are church members who volunteer to tutor the kids at the Compassion center. They are learning English to be able to break the cycle of poverty in this rough part of El Salvador.
Be like no one else
Posted in: work by Stephen on November 02, 2008
Well, as you can tell, my posts have not been very frequent. I have been working a bunch!
This is because we have to decided to “live like no one else, so we can live like no one else”. In other words, we are working to become debt free. This includes our house and everything. Everything that is not necessary, is getting sold, and in a few years(Lord willing), we will be financially free. Now, I know this sounds weird, but normal in this country is being broke, and we will be weird if we have to be. A guy named Dave Ramsey is our motivator…check him out HERE.
A post on Dave Ramsey’s site.. AN AMERICAN CREED
I Do Not Choose to Be a Common Man
It is my right to be uncommon—if I can.
I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.”
By Dean Alfange
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*Originally published in This Week Magazine.
Later printed in The Reader’s Digest, October 1952 and January 1954.
The Honorable Dean Alfange was an American statesman born December 2, 1899, in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He was raised in upstate New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and attended Hamilton College, graduating in the class of 1922.