Posts from ‘December, 2008’

I happened to snap this picture of Rudolph and one of his fellow sleigh pullers in our back yard yesterday.  Actually, the “deer” on the right could be an impostor.  It could just be our goose “Pat” dressed up as Rudolph.

BEAUTIFUL day for a run.  Ran the old 7.5 miler through the Air Force Academy to the South Entrance overpass.  A train blew by me at the end of the run.

I was reading an article describing the need for Jesus in Africa, written by a self described athiest.  The author talks about a Christian organization that helps supply drinking water to folks living in Africa.  But the point of the article is the practical success of Christian organizations in Africa, where secular ones are lacking.  [...]

  We got a Christmas card from Ricardo in El Salvador.  His english is AWESOME!  In his latest letter, he said that his “tutors” were teaching him English.  The tutors he was talking about are church members.  Compassion joins with the local church to provide church members to help “tutor” the kids. Both sides of [...]

We are planning on a quiet Christmas this year.  One thing we are going to do is to write a letter to all of our Compassion sponsored kids.  This might be a good family project on Christmas night for any of you that are currently sponsoring a child.  And if not, gather around the computer [...]

This video is very convicting.  What we can do with a fraction of the money we spend on Christmas.

Back at it today after battling the worlds worst cold last week.  Looks like treadmill duty for a week with all the COLD weather we have right now.  Last night on the weather, it said the temp here was 5 and minus 16 in Denver.  Ugh.

  My training has been severely affected this last week by the worst cold I have ever had.  Tried to run once last week, but just too weak.  Anyway, I finally had to get some drugs.  Hmmm, the good stuff!

Got my results from the Turkey Trot…   24th in my age group!  Not sure how many runners there were… I would guess around 1500.    21   380 M W.T. Grampp            51   41:34    22  1216 M Ron Warner             52   41:36    23   293 M Jim Erickson           51   41:51    24   509 M Stephen Johnson        53   [...]

Thank God we live in a country that is taking the lead on AIDs programs in Africa. It seems, however, that more people, by far, are dying of other diseases that are relatively extremely underfunded. One recent news story talks about statistics in Rwanda. An excerpt from this article … By 2006, AIDS funding accounted [...]

    As part of my training, it is always fun to run a race every once a while.  The Scott Co Y Turkey Trot was a perfect run for me right now.  A 5 miler with a good hill thrown in.  Beautiful day for a run.  Pretty chilly starting out, but not much wind and [...]