Today, I'm a domino

Been a while. Been busy.

Recently, I've been trying to hit the gym a little bit harder. I'm not wanting to be a meat-head or anything, but because of a few recent transactions, we've been lifting more.

Dan and Ashlea finally got engaged, so because of that, we're all wanting to look good in our wedding party clothes. Should be fun. I do have to admit that I'm enjoying the sado-masochist idea of beating myself up to make myself stronger.

But this week I've got to go hard because I've got a 5K in a week and a half. So next week is taper week.

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This past weekend, Meg and I helped with Wynndale Baptist Church's Discipleship Now. We had a good time. The format has a changed a bit since when we all were in high school. It was more conference/seminar style. Instead of it being a "retreat" it was more like a conference. The speaker was great: John Vermilya.

He not only was a good speaker who spoke a lot of truth, he had one quality I think most "cool" kids who grow up lose. He was still cool. I'm realizing I'm losing my "cool" (well, whatever cool I once had).

But the weekend was great. I learned to be a domino. In a "domino effect" I only need to be one domino. It takes millions of dominoes to make those cool displays. I only need to worry about being one. That takes the overwhelming task of saving the world and makes it null and void. I just have to be who God wants me to be, daily.

Instead of making me feel like it's impossible and quitting, I get to take care of today. In my group, we said we wanted to be fat oak trees. Takes some time. Be a fat tree. Be a domino.