Looking forward to it, but it will be a completely different change of pace.
Put in 4.18 miles tonight. Two miles in 97-99 on the Decatur middle school track and then another two 1.09-mile loops outside the Hampton Inn here in Denton.
Had to leave the street quickly for a car approaching and landed my left leg on a curb and made tender the upper hamstring on my left leg again.
The first loop was about an 11-something pace, and the second I brought in at about 10:35; however, I could tell the whole area was tender.
I will stretch before going to sleep tonight and I’m not confident that it isn’t going to be without a little bit of pain.
Very thankful today for successful surgery for the oldest daughter of my cousin Matt and his wife Brooke. Guess she fractured her right arm and they needed to go in put some pins there to set it.
Saw the note this morning, pictures of her waiting to go into surgery and at home recovering.
Thankfully for her, Mom is a nurse.
Again, just very thankful that everything came out OK for her today. She’s four and is a character.
I’m afraid that she’s going to be a fun handful for Matt and Brooke down the road.
I’m thankful that I had the nearly all-the-time compliant child as Dr. James Dobson described her basically.
I listened last night to a sermon from the pastor, Dr. Mark Rotramel, of the church that I want to attend Sunday morning in El Paso – the First Baptist Church of El Paso.
It was on I Corinthians 13:5, but the illustration that he used was great in that we burden our spiritual backpack down with rocks, such as unforgiveness of others.
We listen to a sermon and say, “Wow, I wish somebody was here to hear this.” And come to find out, it is really that we are the ones that need to hear it and get the process rolling.
He said, “Hurt people hurt people.” I would totally agree with that statement and that we first must acknowledge our own sin before we can start unloading our backpack of the rocks that we’ve weighted ourselves down with.
The other thing that struck me here recently is an excellent article that I read in the June 18, 2018 edition of The New Yorker.
The copy of the magazine – one that I don’t normally subscribe to or buy – was left in the pouch of the Southwest airplane that we took from Boston to St. Louis Sunday evening.
It was an article titled, “The Enemy of My Enemy: The U.S., Israel, and the Gulf states unite against Iran.”
The biggest thing that I took away from it was that - while people are criticizing the President and many of the things that they are doing as an administration - there are some very productive things in this area that they are working on that people just choose not to see.
It was really an encouragement to me to read.
The other interesting article that I read while having dinner tonight at Cowboy Chicken in Denver was “Nowhere to Hide: Privacy in the time of Big Data.”
It basically postulated some of the current challenges that are happening in our society about our right to privacy – or not – or the pursuit – as one judge wrote in a court opinion - of being “left alone”.
As an introvert, I can complete identify with that sentiment 110%.
Hope your Tuesday was good and productive and that tomorrow will be even more so.
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