an excerpt…

from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller
“If I were to play you a recording of a garbage truck backing up, with a jackhammer or something in the distance, that wouldn’t be music.  That would just be noise, right?  I mean you wouldn’t exactly get those noises stuck in your head and [...]

blinds and lights

not sure if you guys do this too, but ever since i was little,
i always did this thing with blinds, to minimize the amount of light coming in to my room.
during the day, i would shift the blinds up rather than down, because in daytime, light comes from above.
but during the night, i would shift [...]

something old…

*i was flipping through my notebook and i found this little blurb i wrote.
5/10/09

“the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”
it’s not about being smarter than your peers,
or even just having everything figured out.
but it’s about the understanding of who God is,
and what your identity is in God.
that’s wisdom.
and i’m talking about wisdom [...]

trampoline

“I am far more interested in jumping than I am in arguing about whose trampoline is better.  You rarely defend the things you love.  You enjoy them and tell others about them and invite others to enjoy them with you.” – Rob Bell

and a summer draws to a close…

Classes start for me tomorrow, which means that tonight is the last night of the summer.
it seems so surreal that summer has come to an end… it seriously went by so fast it’s kind of ridiculous..
i haven’t really done much this summer other than beach week, hangout with people, retreat, urban hands…
but i guess three [...]

Post Urban Hands Entry

this is really late, but hey i finally had some time to put my thoughts together.
i didn’t want to have just another missions experience recollection about the things we did and blah blah but to place the attention on and to remind us of what god’s trying to do…  bear with me and hear me [...]

URBAN HANDS 09

-yes i’m going. heres the story that led up to it.
so the other day i’ve been thinking about how we as humans are so prone to getting too comfortable in our surroundings…  i’ve seen it in my life, and i tend to settle too much with these “okay” things and miss out on so much [...]

consistently inconsistent

golf has become a pretty big part of my life this summer…  i’ve been going to the range here and there to get some pointers from my dad…  i’ve been watching the golf channel randomly and not get bored… also had the chance to see tiger in person at the AT&T National up at the [...]

a conversation

I stopped by at a gas station as I was going home today after finishing preparations for retreat…  i stepped out of my car, and as i proceeded to perform my gas-putting-in rituals, i noticed some random, relatively large white guy putting in gas at the pump next to me.    i was staring down blankly [...]

post marathon post

today is june 1st… 2009… which means… that it’s already been one year since i ran the marathon in San Diego!
if you want to read any of the pre-marathon posts that I did, you can check them out at runjoerun21.wordpress.com
So many people ask me about the marathon, and seriously… my honest and sincere response that [...]