Looking out the window....
I'm enjoying the changing blooms in the flower beds around the Green Mountain Recreation Center.
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| Veronica. |
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| Canada Goldenrod. |
I noticed something at the church that's probably not new, but it was new to me. There are flower boxes strategically placed in different areas of the outside of the building:
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| These Hostas remind me of the ones from my mom's flower garden. |
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| These are called Coral Bells. |
Favorite quote(s) of the week...
In this day’s labors or
trials say, The Lord God helps Me. Go forth boldly. Set your face like a
flint (Isaiah 50:7), and resolve that no weakness or shame will come
near you. If God helps, who can hinder? If you are certain of omnipotent
aid, what can be too heavy for you? Begin the day joyously, and let no
shadow of doubt come between you and the eternal sunshine. - Charles Spurgeon, Faith's Checkbook, p. 232.
Refusing to be happy
because someone else is unhappy, though, is a bit like cleaning your
plate because babies are starving in India. Your unhappiness isn’t
making anyone else happier—in fact, quite the opposite, given the fact
that happier people are more likely to act altruistically. - Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project, p. 216.
Practice purposeful
giving to increase your freedom. Sometimes people who are building
boundaries feel that to do someone a favor is codependent. Nothing is
further from the truth. Doing good for someone, when you freely choose
to do it, is boundary enhancing. Codependents are not doing good; they
are allowing evil because they are afraid. - Cloud and Townsend, Boundaries, p. 138.
On makeup foundation: There's full coverage and then there's 'calm down' coverage. - Robert Walsh, Professional Makeup Artist.
Social media has made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it. - Mike Tyson
Don't train like you're having a panic attack and your psychiatrist is not around. - Dr. Mike Israetel, Exercise Scientist
I'm thinking about...
Nasty gym rats: This is a mini rant, but it needs to be said. I went to the community center gym the other day. Green Mountain has two stationary bikes that don't cause taint trauma. BTW--I tagged the city recreation department in my first post about this when I shared the link on Facebook. All I've gotten is crickets. Very tacky.
Anyway...
A patron was cleaning off one bike (the center provides disinfecting spray and paper towels). As I adjust and prep the bike for use, I watched the patron on the other bike get off, walk away, and NEVER come back to clean it.
Keep in mind gyms, community centers, and YMCAs providing some means of cleaning off equipment has been the norm for a long time. So, after everything we went through during "the thing" with sickness, viruses, quarantine, masks, and death, who in his right mind gets off a piece of publicly used equipment and doesn't clean his germy goo and butt sweat off the machine? There's spray and paper towels on BOTH ends of the cardio room.
Why? Just. Why?
To the nasty gym rat: May a rabid dog bite you and pee on your leg and may a sick toddler sneeze directly into your mouth.
Chew and swallow it, you big nasty!
What I've read since the last digest...
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. ✮✮✮✮ (Category: Kiddie Lit)
- Changes that Heal by Henry Cloud ✮✮✮✮
- The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson ✮✮✮✮ (Category: Glorious Reread)
- How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit by A. W. Tozer ✮✮✮✮
- The New American Standard Bible ✮✮✮✮
- The Dangers of a Shallow Faith by A. W. Tozer ✮✮✮1/2
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ✮✮✮✮
- Real Artists Don't Starve by Jeff Goins ✮✮✮✮ (a glorious reread). Please see my review here.
- A Theory of Everything (That Matters) by Alister McGrath ✮✮✮1/2 (An impulse read).
- Experiencing Prayer with Jesus by Henry and Norman Blackaby ✮✮ (An impulse read).
I'm currently reading...
- Silence by Shusaku Endo
- Mansions of the Heart by R. Thomas Ashbrook
- Streams of Living Water by Richard J. Foster
- Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
- Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
Recent blog posts...
- My previous digest, "Reset the Play Clock'" is here.
- First Line Friday #38: The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard is here.
- Sometime In the Morning: The Weekly Hodgepodge is here.
- My "25 for 2025" challenge is here. (Updated regularly)
- My "I Can Only Blame MyShelf" reading challenge is here. (Updated regularly).
From the Workshop...
I am thankful for...
- Street sweepers.
- This weekend's sermon.
- Honest mechanics.
- IKEA.
- Insulated car mugs that are actually insulated and keep things hot or cold longer than eight seconds.
- Colored pencils.
- Journals with paper thick enough that I can write on both sides without bleed through.
- My prize for completing Jefferson County Public Library's summer reading program.
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