Tagged Answers

Here are the long awaited results of my tagged post.

1) I have a piece of turf and concrete from Three Rivers Stadium.

True, a salesman that called on my store gave it to me.

2) I am an ordained deacon within the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

True, I was ordained in Dayton, Ohio

3) I have worked for NBC during the NFL playoffs.

True, I had a friend that worked for NBC and he arranged for me to work several Steeler games. It was great. I got paid to watch the game from the NBC press box.

4) I have been a member at 6 different churches all of which were Presbyterian.

True they were not all the same but they were all Presbyterian.

5) I had a part in a local production of The Sound of Music and served as the stage manager.

True my children were in the show and they were desperate for adult male roles.

6) I led a semi-pro football team in interceptions one season.

True, I played for 3 seasons after highschool

7) I have run a triathlon

False, I have always wanted to but never have.

8) I curently run 6 days a week, and at one time I ran over 250 days consecutively without skipping a day.

True, I have actually done the 250+ thing a couple of times. Each time I did I got injured. I gave up running on Sundays about 6 years ago and have not been injured due to running since.

9) I drove over 80,000 miles per year over the last 4 years.

True, I am in sales and cover several states.

The winner is Tina. I guess I should have said competed in a trialathon instead of ran one. Truth be told the swimming would be my downfall. Thanks to all who played along.

Boy Scout Camp

I will be at scout camp with the boys for a few days. I will return to blog activity sometime on Wednesday. Where the camp is located has no service of any kind.

Weekly Debate 2

Well my first debate went well. Thanks to all who participated. I do not have a lot of readers at this time. I hope to gain more as I go along. I plan to post the topic/question on Sunday afternoon or evening. I can not always promise that I will be able to chime in consistently during the day as my work keeps on the go and I do not always have access to the net. The topic of this week's debate is music. As a Christian, what type of music should we listen to and what should we not listen to? Let the debating begin!

Reaping what we have sown

I am excited to share with you that we have eaten from our garden several times this week. We have had plenty of zucchini meals (the variety of meals can be found on my wife's blog). The girls froze 4 quarts of beans yesterday. We will be having cucumbers soon (they are sitting on the counter), and I sliced up a banana pepper and ate it on my pizza after church on Sunday. I expect we will be having spaghetti squash soon, as well as peppers and if they ever ripen, tomatoes.

As we continue to have a drought, the garden seems to be holding up quite well. I have been watering it regularly. We did get a little rain this past week. The yard on the other hand is not fairing so well as it is quite brown. I spent some time weeding the flower garden yesterday. My son Mac had a friend over last night and his mom instructed him to tell us the flowers looked pretty. I was pleased to hear the compliment.

It really is nice to benefit from hard work. I liken it to our work for the Lord, as it is not always easy to live a Christian life, but the rewards of serving our Father are so worth the labor. How often do we really think about the benefits we receive from our Lord? While visiting another blog a few days ago, I was reminded of how we must be thankful of our daily bread that our heavenly Father gives us. All too often we take for granted what we have. We complain about things we don't have. Fact is, we have what we need, our God gives us just what we need to survive. The final reward is the everlasting life we will receive in our Father's heaven. Now that is a reaping that is worth the sowing.

Weekly Debate

I would like to add a new feature to my blog. The weekly debate. I plan on posting a question each week and want to hear from everyone. Please give your honest opinion and then I encourage each of you to debate it back and forth.



This week's question is....Can a Christian, in good conscience, purchase and use a radar detector? I feel that it is not something that a professing Christian should do. While it says no where in Scripture that speeding is a sin, we are called to obey the law of the land. I, for one, could benefit by having one. I drive all day long and it would be helpful to go faster and get home sooner. But I have always felt that it was wrong to have a radar detector. Please let me know what you think. I would love to hear every one's thoughts on this issue.

Tagged

Well I have been tagged by my daughter Autumn. So I guess I have to list 9 things about myself one of which is not true. I will give it a about a month to post the answer, as I do not have to many readers yet on my blog .

1) I have a piece of turf and concrete from three rivers stadium.

2) I am an ordained Deacon within the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

3) I have worked for NBC during the NFL playoffs.

4) I have been a member at 6 different churches all of which were Presbyterian.

5) I had a part in a local production of The Sound of Music and served as the stage manager.

6) I led a semi-pro football team in interceptions one season.

7) I have ran a triathlon

8) I curently run 6 days a week, and at one time I ran over 250 days consecutively without skipping a day.

9) I drove over 80,000 miles per year over the last 4 years.

Much needed rain

On Sunday our pastor prayed for rain, as we have a family that has a farm and many families that have gardens, all of which could use the rain for the dry soil. We have had a nice rain the past two days and what a blessing. What a joy it was to hear Abigail say during the rain storm on Monday that the rain was an answer to our pastor's prayer. After this evening's rain we were able to find 5 zucchini that were suitable to be picked. We are eagerly ready to eat them. The Lord sure is good to us. I just love harvesting and then providing food on our table for our hard work.