With our busy schedule during the day, scheduled dinners and with how fast the sun goes down, since I got here I started right away to get in the habit of getting up in the morning to go running. I love it! Plus, we usually don’t start until 8:30 (and no driving! just a couple minute walk) so I can get up at 6:40-6:50, be running by 7-7:15 and still get in a decent run before starting the day. What a great way to start the day off! This morning my Ipod was being funny so I ended up going on a long walk with sprint intervals and some great prayer time, which was perfect. And mind you, the scenery is amazing especially when fog covers the mountains and the sun peeks through it. Yay for being away from the city lights. 🙂
Biked: 5.8 miles at 24:07 minutes–14.5 average mph and 22.4 maximum mph
–This triathlon might be a bit hard 🙂
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Happy Birthday Bj!
Walk: 20 minutes
Run: 20 minutes straight yay
10 Minute Pilates–Waist Slimmer: 10 minutes
Thoughts: My roomies’ boys are going to think I work out all the time…they keep coming over when I don’t know they’re coming…awkward… 🙂 good times!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Run: 25 minutes
Walk: 10-15? I didn’t keep track well. I also walked to the beach if that counts. 🙂
Thoughts: I’m bored with life.
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Took the day off 🙂 Went to work and then drove home (aka Alex).
Final thoughts: I started trying to drink more water toward the end of the week. I’m going to do that again this week and also try to watch or log how much I’m eating. Although, I don’t want to become crazy obsessive about logging, but I feel doing so would be beneficial since I really don’t keep track. Other than that…I’m planning on continuing to train! 🙂 yay
Mark Driscoll is hilarious. I could not stop laughing on my drive home when I was listening to his podcasts. Who would think that the subject of spiritual gifts could be so funny?! I sure wasn’t expecting to be driving alone at night laughing my head off. From previous podcasts, I know he uses a lot of humor, but I was still surprised at how funny he made the topic while keeping it relevant and important. I’m sure part of why I found the comments so funny is because I see myself and others as embodying the characteristics.
For example, he talked about the gift of knowledge and some characteristics of those who have this gift. Granted, he did touch earlier in the podcast about the difference between spiritual gifts and natural talents and abilities, but I’ll refrain from going into further depth on that subject (listen to the podcast!). First off, he indicated that this is one of his primary gifts, which also helped the humor.
Definition: “the ability to research, remember and make effective use of a variety of information on a number of diverse subjects”
Evidence:
You are an information freak.
You can’t wait for the amazon.com guy to show up
If you get a book written by a dead guy, you dance a jig
If you get a book out of print, you immediately run around to anyone in the vicinity showing them the “out of print” book so they too can stand in awe
“I don’t even believe in the rapture, but if it does happen I’m going to grab my books and take them with me”
You love footnotes and appendixes
You like big books and cannot lie.
What do you do on your day off? Study.
You love to learn and are not content with surface level knowledge on a topic
After reading a book, you think: “I know there are other perspectives….I need to get more books to look at all the perspectives. I’m going to look at all of them just because I can.”
You get frustrated when you hear bad teaching from someone who hasn’t done their homework— example: that’s not what the greek text says
You are compelled to do long hours of research so that others can benefit
You love when people ask questions and are excited to share your insight
You don’t like to be more than arms length away from a book. i.e. You keep books in your car, room, bag, backpack, satchel…basically everywhere
Reading and knowledge simply make you happy.
Also, Mark Driscoll described his library. Man, I was drooling… I can’t wait to have a house and a library!! He explained how he has a 13 foot desk like the Starship Enterprise and is surrounded by books. The books of course are cataloged in the same way as the Library of Congress and he can search from his computer by date, subject, time, author, ect. Finally, the reminder came that the whole point of study is Jesus. Driscoll called himself a “google for Christ.” Zach Hubert used this gift to create (in his spare time!) a whole website to “help make the Greek New Testament more accessible to the beginning Greek student, the Greek scholar, or to anyone who desires to experience the Bible in its original form.”
In terms of text, Driscoll used 1 Corinthians 12:8 and also suggested doing a character study on Solomon, Timothy and Ezra if you are interested in the gift of knowledge.
b'ahava 