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Confirmation Class
With the new school year upon us religious ed classes are also starting. I am a discussion group leader for our first year confirmation class, we have 69 students. The guys in my groups are all on fire with the Holy Sprit and love Jesus. This has not always been the case, I’ve done this 5 or 6 other times and this is by…
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Continuing the Trek
Last November I started on this get healthy kick and so far I think it’s been working. I started out at ~220 and I now around ~190ish. I never understood the “Eat back your exercise calories” thing; I wanted to lose weight so I ate less, cut out a bunch of junk and started exercising. I saw all these new TLAs (Three Letter…
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Fitness Challenges
Have any of you participated in any of these types of challenges? http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/614795-100-miles-in-june?hl=100+miles I just crossed the 100 mile line yesterday! 6/1 - 0 Driving all day 6/2 - 4 Walking 6/3 - 0 Walking +5 Biking 6/4 - 8 Walking 6/5 - 4 Walking 6/6 - 6 Walking + 5 Biking 6/7 - 6…
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Weight Loss by the Numbers
I’m a numbers guy; I work in the computer industry and have always liked math and numbers. Most people can tell you that PI is 3.14; off the top of my head I can tell you it’s more precisely 3.1415926535898. I know it goes on forever but I could only memorize that much cuz my calculator display only shows 14 digits. I grew…
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Weight loss By the Numbers
I’m a numbers guy; I work in the computer industry and have always liked math and numbers. Most people can tell you that PI is 3.14; off the top of my head I can tell you it’s more precisely 3.1415926535898. I know it goes on forever but I could only memorize that much cuz my calculator display only shows 14 digits. I grew…
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Paris
I have a daughter studying in France this semester. During her break next week another daughter is going to visit her, they are renting a apartment in Paris for the week. On a spur of the moment last minute thing our older daughter invited my wife to join them (she is currently driving to Detroit to try and get a passport…
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Miracles
We all have personal stories that border on the miraculous, let’s share them. I've always thought of miracles not as the sustenance of our daily faith life but more as the frosting on the cake. Since I'm not getting much cake or frosting these days how about some spiritual frosting. I'd prefer personal stories or stories…
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No Daddy your the ...
First post, father of 8, 1 son, 7 daughters. My youngest daughter was dancing around the room saying "I am the princess of the king", "I am the princess of the king". I stopped her and asked if I were the king, with a twinkle in her eye she said "No dad, your the fat old man of the king"! A friend at work showed me this…
