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| Started Sunday with a fine race |
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| Reached a nadir on Wednesday |
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| Ended on a fine note in Ottawa Saturday |
Monday, September 26, 2011
Quite A Seven Days
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Psalm 119:76
O may Your lovingkindness comfort me,
According to Your word to Your servant.
10 km today in 35:36. Good for 1st old geezer over 40. 6th overall. Last race this side of knee surgery. See you on the other side, old man.
Old picture from my first Boston Qualifier (Oct, 2003) that moves me. Maybe it's just time to pass the torch to the next generation. The boy is looking good. We'll see what the Lord has in store. It's pretty much in His hands now. I suppose it always has been.
Here he is in more recent days, qualifying for the high school varsity team as a freshman, a spot that he would subsequently lose, but he's pushing those upperclassmen.
According to Your word to Your servant.
10 km today in 35:36. Good for 1st old geezer over 40. 6th overall. Last race this side of knee surgery. See you on the other side, old man.
Old picture from my first Boston Qualifier (Oct, 2003) that moves me. Maybe it's just time to pass the torch to the next generation. The boy is looking good. We'll see what the Lord has in store. It's pretty much in His hands now. I suppose it always has been.
Here he is in more recent days, qualifying for the high school varsity team as a freshman, a spot that he would subsequently lose, but he's pushing those upperclassmen.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Psalm 119:75
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Tomorrow I have my last race on this side of surgery. It's a 10k. I'd like to run under 35. I think I am capable of it, but I haven't really raced a 10k in many years. I hope my finish face looks better than this one that I just discovered on line from the Lenexa Freedom Run July 4. Still, I'd take an ugly finish picture for a good finish time such as this one (16:37, 5k).
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Tomorrow I have my last race on this side of surgery. It's a 10k. I'd like to run under 35. I think I am capable of it, but I haven't really raced a 10k in many years. I hope my finish face looks better than this one that I just discovered on line from the Lenexa Freedom Run July 4. Still, I'd take an ugly finish picture for a good finish time such as this one (16:37, 5k).
Monday, August 8, 2011
Psalm 16:2
I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
I have no good besides You.
(I wrote the following over a month ago but didn't post it. I've come along a bit from this point in my recent spiritual journey, but decided to go ahead and post this as a "record").
I began my search for comfort and some resolution of God’s sovereignty over my injury through the Psalms beginning with Psalm 1:1. It took reading through 15 Psalms to get to this one. This was the first verse that I came across that hit me because it’s just so radical. I don’t know how comforting it is, really, but it struck me. Every good and perfect gift comes to me from God, no doubt about that. So every good thing that I ever had or will have has its origin in the LORD, and so it’s logically true that “I have no good besides” the LORD. But somehow I think the meaning here is just the opposite. I think “no good besides You” is meant to express exclusion rather than inclusion of “all good things” and contrast all of God’s gifts with God Himself. Thinking this through, it’s very very radical. My wife and kids, house and livelihood, talents and achievements, healthy right knee and injured left knee are “no good” to me, at least not compared to having Him. He is the supreme value. At least I think that’s what it means, and it seems to correlate with Philippians 3:8. In my heart that came to Jesus fully almost thirty years ago I think somewhere down deep I hold to this truth, too, but with my running on the line, which seems so precious to me, it is right now hard to confess that “I have no good besides You.”
I have no good besides You.
(I wrote the following over a month ago but didn't post it. I've come along a bit from this point in my recent spiritual journey, but decided to go ahead and post this as a "record").
I began my search for comfort and some resolution of God’s sovereignty over my injury through the Psalms beginning with Psalm 1:1. It took reading through 15 Psalms to get to this one. This was the first verse that I came across that hit me because it’s just so radical. I don’t know how comforting it is, really, but it struck me. Every good and perfect gift comes to me from God, no doubt about that. So every good thing that I ever had or will have has its origin in the LORD, and so it’s logically true that “I have no good besides” the LORD. But somehow I think the meaning here is just the opposite. I think “no good besides You” is meant to express exclusion rather than inclusion of “all good things” and contrast all of God’s gifts with God Himself. Thinking this through, it’s very very radical. My wife and kids, house and livelihood, talents and achievements, healthy right knee and injured left knee are “no good” to me, at least not compared to having Him. He is the supreme value. At least I think that’s what it means, and it seems to correlate with Philippians 3:8. In my heart that came to Jesus fully almost thirty years ago I think somewhere down deep I hold to this truth, too, but with my running on the line, which seems so precious to me, it is right now hard to confess that “I have no good besides You.”
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