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A thought by Mark Batterson, (2013-09-24) from his book, All In: You Are One Decision Away From aTotally Different Life (Kindle Location 401). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. I am having a problem with my hip.   It is bothering me when I walk.   This morning I thought I would walk down to the Starbucks that is close to me.   I thought that I would protect myself.   I should shouldn’t I at 65+?   But I didn’t. I took the bus instead to my normal Starbucks to see my friends and then make the long walk home.   I am not going to give in to the pains of being old.   I have too much to see and experience even at 65+. There is my testimony of getting up and doing on this day.   You see for me to live the remaining years of my life not as an invalid then I have to get up and get out.   If I sit before the TV all day then I will truly become an invalid but I have determined not to do that. Now for every dream and every goal in life there will be days that your resolve will be te

A thought by Mark Batterson, (2013-09-24) from his book, All In: You Are One Decision Away From aTotally Different Life (Kindle Location 296). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. As I think back on my life, I realize how true this is.    The one decision that I made as a teenager to let God have total control of my life has lead me to where I am today.   The decision to marry my wife, Margaret came from that decision.   The decision to become a staff minister and then to become a church planter came from that.   The decision to have children has led to so much joy.   The decision to retire has led to such a productive life of extended ministry.   That decision will also lead me to and eternal reward after this life is over.   My life would have been so different if I hadn’t stood in that auditorium in Winona Lake, Indiana and said out loud, “Here an I, use me.”    That was a defining moment in my life that even brings some emotion in me as I remember it right now.   Now there

A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 219). Center Street. Kindle Edition. I am about to finish this book.   I have underlined and shared a lot of thoughts here on this blog but if that was all I did then it would just be entertainment and in a sense a waste of my time.   And I don’t have enough days here to live to waste them.   The key is, what am I going to do with what I have read and the same is true of you?   What are you doing with what you know? Now knowing is very important.   There are so many people who have died between their ears.   They are not challenged to learn.   They went to school and that part of their life they say is over.   But our brain didn’t go out of existence just because we finished going to school.   Knowing is very important but doing is the next step from knowing. I am challenging myself to read 14 books this year.   I am