Archive for February, 2006

For those of you who watched the Olympic coverage this evening and happened to see the coverage of SnowBoard Cross you might have seen a Czech named Michal Novotny ripping it up! He finished 13th and I’m stoked to say I know him and that he is a friend.

Michal attended the Sports Faculty University in Prague where I worked to see Czech students respond to Jesus’ offer of forgiveness and a full life! It was fun to hang out a ton with Michal while I was in Czech. We even went riding together a couple times and he taught be all about Skier and SnowBoard Cross. Sorry to say I’m not as good as Michal! Czech out this link to see the results! By the way Michal way to work the duct tape on that helmet! You’re keeping it real bro!

Okay I need to get on the phone! There happens to be only $83 of monthly support left to raise! Praise Jesus!

While I’ve been down here in Daytona Beach at New Staff Training I’ve been struggling with meeting and spending time with the Lord. It just seems as I’m sitting in hours upon hours of meetings and I have very little down time this creates a situation where I’m not practicing spiritual disciplines. So this morning as I was sitting in a another meeting (I have a confession – I’m not excited that I have to sit in this meeting room at 8:30 am. I have been praying that the Lord would help me with my attitude.) I was surfing and I found a great little piece, from CJ Mahaney, about spiritual disciplines. I pray it speaks to you as it spoke to me. He was asked to describe his present practice of the spiritual disciplines and this was his response:
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This past weekend we actually had time off! I didn’t know what to do with myself! I didn’t have any chapters to read, or a final exam to study for! So 10 of us made our way to the Magic Kingdom, at Disney World, this past Saturday and had a blast. I was with several new staff friends that had never been to Disney before and it was fun to see how they responded to the “Disney Experience.” There is so much that I could write about that came to mind throughout the day. But I’m going to zero in on two things; 1) the legacy of Walt Disney and beyond, and 2) a vision of heaven.

the legacy of Walt and beyond

Now I want to offer a disclaimer before I get rolling into this thought – I’m not sold out a 100% about everything that the Disney corporation does and/or supports, but it is amazing to think of the earthly legacy that the man Walt Disney has had on our planet. Think of how many children have smiled, and for that matter how many adults have smiled, due to his dreams that have come true.

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