This article is circling the interwebs and it is the best thing I've ever heard of.
Save $2.70 every time you go to "ballet".
The first commute on my very own road bike happened yesterday & deserves some blog documentation. It was an 88 degree evening with gusts of wind coming from all directions. My two wheels carried me 16.8 miles (round-trip) and safely from home to the Pure Barre Studio.
It's love & I'm so grateful.
I saved $2.70 just for pedaling & using time. #practicingtheartoffrugality
That's all pretty cool. But what's really cool is that this whole cycling thing is rooted in nothing but friendships.
Dilyn asked to do a triathlon in 2011, which led to a year-long venture of babysitting a yellow road bike while my friends went to Singapore for a year. Upon giving the bike back, I realized that cycling was something I had learned to like while training.
Fast forward 2 years...
I have good friends; some have a unique hobby of helping their friends find good bikes - they found me a super studly, gently loved, shiny red, GIANT road bike & I bought it.
Other friends make sure that I have all the essential road bike accessories at discounted prices from unique German grocery store suppliers.
If it were me, I would have taken until October to find a bike (and then it's winter).
With friends, the turnaround from inquiring about to actually commuting on a bike was about one month.
So I guess this is a new thing.
Yup. It's actually a thing.
Not a casual "ride when I want" fling - but a let's learn how to
change a flat,
grease the chain,
log the miles,
ride with vigor,
real THING.
Cheers to less gas, less money and the hardcore thunder thighs :)
thank you, april.
Cousin time with the west-coast kids.
Coolest Mt. Lemmon hikes with Dad & brother-in-law.
Bouncing and butterfly balloons with my sweet niece.
Tried three new recipes for friends!
Nonno's box is slowly getting some new additions.
Quiet post-long run dates & baseball.
Riverview meets REO.
Aunt Tina & Uncle Dave visit Lansing :)
Another HOSA State Conference with two of the best.
James 5:16
"Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed." James 5:16
I've been listening to NeedtoBreathe's latest album and these lyrics melted me.
Ever growing steadfast
And if need be the one that’s in the gap
Be the never turning back
Twice the heart any man could have
Be the wheels not the track
Be the wanderer that’s coming back
Leave the past right where it’s at
Be more heart and less attack
Heaps and heaps of prayers are rooted in this idea that as followers of Jesus we get to meet each person where they are at. Since living for Jesus means a constant transformation of the state of our own heart, we are humbled and our strength lies in being vulnerable & exposing our weaknesses.
Piles and piles of prayers are stored up asking the very same for my own heart.
What if we were a community that really did confess our sins? What if we chose not to hide, practiced vulnerability, and threw everything on the table? I've seen glimpse of the restoration that comes from confessing your sins to one another. I've seen the freedom that is revealed when you let go of the ugly and cling to the truth...
because Paul says that we would be healed! AND THAT IS TRUTH!
I pray today for the Lord to reveal in our hearts what needs to be confessed and I ask Him to give each of us an opportunity to share this with another believer who meets us in our sin with all heart and all prayer.
I pray that we BELIEVE that we will leave healed.
Ever growing steadfast - leave the past right where it's at - be more heart and less attack.
I've been listening to NeedtoBreathe's latest album and these lyrics melted me.
Ever growing steadfast
And if need be the one that’s in the gap
Be the never turning back
Twice the heart any man could have
Be the wheels not the track
Be the wanderer that’s coming back
Leave the past right where it’s at
Be more heart and less attack
Heaps and heaps of prayers are rooted in this idea that as followers of Jesus we get to meet each person where they are at. Since living for Jesus means a constant transformation of the state of our own heart, we are humbled and our strength lies in being vulnerable & exposing our weaknesses.
Piles and piles of prayers are stored up asking the very same for my own heart.
What if we were a community that really did confess our sins? What if we chose not to hide, practiced vulnerability, and threw everything on the table? I've seen glimpse of the restoration that comes from confessing your sins to one another. I've seen the freedom that is revealed when you let go of the ugly and cling to the truth...
because Paul says that we would be healed! AND THAT IS TRUTH!
I pray today for the Lord to reveal in our hearts what needs to be confessed and I ask Him to give each of us an opportunity to share this with another believer who meets us in our sin with all heart and all prayer.
I pray that we BELIEVE that we will leave healed.
Ever growing steadfast - leave the past right where it's at - be more heart and less attack.
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