Steven Curtis Chapman - Cinderella

Steven Curtis Chapman Interview

This morning on the way to work I listened to a powerful interview on Focus on the Family. It was the third of a three part interview centered around the death of the Chapman's young adopted daughter. I am not a big fan of very many of the contempary music writers and singers, but I have always had a lot of respect for SCC. After listening this morning I have a lot more respect for him. The three programs were called "The God of All Comfort" which is the title of a sermon I have preached many times myself. If you would like to listen to this interview here is the link. Th esong that he sings at the end is very moving.Let me know what you think.

http://listen.family.org/daily/A000001490.cfm

Being in the Right Place at the Right Time!

Today was an interesting Day. Started out when I went to the school we met at last year and picked up 3 signs for someone to change for our upcoming Kids 4 Truth Wed. night program. While I was there the secretary game me a soft sided briefcase someone had left at the school a few months ago. It was mine and thought I would never see it again. Left there with the signs and told the person who needed them I would drop them off at his place of work in an hour and a half which just so happens to be right next to my hiring hall. Kill two birds with one stone I figured. With time to spare thought I would drop by our current school we are meeting at to try and see if I could talk to someone about rectifying a major storage problem we have there. Pastor decided to meet me there are we talk to just the right person at the right time and solved our problem quite easily. Thank you Lord and Mrs. Principle of the school.
This takes a little longer than I planned so I start over to Dearborn with the signs about an hour later than I had planned.Drop the signs off and stop in at the hall and find out it may be another month before I will be sent out on a job. After being there about 5 minutes the phone rings and a short job needs 6 guys starting in the morning. My business agent asks me if I want to go out there in the morning and I say sure. I don't know how many hours I will be working , or how many days it will be good for ,or if I am going to be the Stewart or the Foreman, but I do know it is close to home! Some days it just seems you are in the right place at the right time!

Olympic updates

As I sit here watching the "Redeem Team" play (blowout 24-4!) Argentina, I am thankful the Olympics are only every four years. I am also glad that the Olympic year always falls on the same time as our Presidential races are heating up and that they are only every fours years too. (That's a subject for another time.)
I was up late last night watching both Men's Beach Volleyball (gold medal) and men's regular Volleyball (won Semi- final).I finally went to bed at about 2 o'clock.
The best thing I saw last night though was a report on girls gymnastics. It seems that the use of the underage girls by China may cost them some medals. I think this story is even sadder than some of the drug discoveries that always seem to come to light during the games. This is worse to me because a whole government is involved in the "AGEGATE" cover-up while the drug ones seem to be the wrong decisions of individual athletics. I hope the USA and other countries will continue to stay on this issue until the truth is brought out and China is stripped of all medals they have won by blatantly cheating. I will not be surprised though if China gets away with it!!

Olympic Overload

I guess one of the things that makes the Olympics special is that they only take place every four years. After not planning on watching much of them, I have spent much time watching them over the last week and a half.Because of that I am glad they only take place every four years. I am currently in between jobs as a Boilermaker so I have some extra time on my hands. With the 12 hours difference in time between China and here there is an abundance of live events that are available to watch on TV. So far I have watched almost all the "Redeem Team" basketball games that come on in the morning hours. I predict a gold for these NBA players. I know I am really going out on a limb here.ha
I have also watched a lot of Women's Gymnastics, (hate that these are decided by bad human judges) and Men's baseball. Don't know why I have watched so much baseball as our team is made up of a bunch of minor league players.They kind of remind me of the Tigers with a better Bull Pen!
I have watched a lot of volleyball, but my favorite match was today's Men's 5 set match that ended in a win for them.
I have watched very little track and field with the 100 meter being the exception. Lighting Bolt could have lowered the world record even more if he would not of let up. I will go out on a limb again and predict he will win the gold in the 200 also.
Finally the most intriguing events were all the swimming matches that Michael Phelps was involved in. Eight gold records and eight world records (thanks in part to the new high tech swimming suits) is unbelievable. Enjoyed watching his mom too, even though she reminded me of RAYMOND'S mother on his TV show.
So far my favorite moment was Phelps seventh Gold medal win. It looked like he had lost but caught his rival right at the end by 1 /100th of a second. I still do not believe what the pictures show. It looked like the silver medalist just stopped cold as he reached for the wall.
I think I just heard that the USA Basketball team gold medal game will take place at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Oh Well, I guess I may have to stay up to watch that one! GO USA!!!