Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Fall Photography

Since I moved downtown, one of my favorite places to go is Wash Park.  It has great running and bike trails, tennis and basketball courts, a rec center, a lake, and tons of open space where people play volleyball, catch or cookout.  The fall trees there have been absolutely gorgeous!  Here are a couple of pictures I took.  The first 2 are of my apartment building and the rest are at the park.  Happy Fall!

Friday Funny

The Good Samaritan:

A man and his wife are awaken at 3:00 AM by a loud pounding on the door.  The man drags himself out of his warm bed and answers the door.  A drunken stranger is standing at the door in the pouring rain and is asking for a push.  "Not a chance, it's 3:00 AM and it's raining," exclaimed the man as he slams the door and heads back to his warm bed.  

"Who was that?" asked his wife.  

"Just some drunk guy asking for a push."

"Did you help him?" she asked.

"NO!  It's 3 in the morning and pouring rain out there!"

"Well, you certainly have a short memory.  Do you not remember about 2 months ago when we broke down and a nice gentleman helped us?  I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself and you should go help him!"

The man does as he is told and goes out on a cold rainy night to help the man.  He calls out in the dark, "Is anyone out there?"

"Yes." The man answers.

"Do you still need a push?"

"Yes!  Please."  Comes the reply from the dark.

"Where are you?"  The man called back.

"Over here, on the SWING,"  replied the drunk.

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; to love everybody sincerely; to act in everything with the highest motives; to trust God unhesitatingly.

  

Things I love lately

The changing leaves

Crisp Fall air

Football Season (and CU's new qb....finally!)

Weekly morning coffee dates with Ben

Good books

My family

Not dealing with traffic to and from work

Good smelling candles

Snuggling under the blankets at night

The gym at work

Having a budget

My hair now fits in a ponytail

Riding my bike around wash park

A Little Encouragement

Sometimes life throws you for a loop.  Things don't work out quite as you expected or planned.  You're going through a rough patch and you just want to give up.  I'm reading a book about embracing your life's purpose and seeing what matters for eternity.  

Here's a few blurbs I read recently that encouraged me so I thought I would pass them on...

"Your Creator has amazing plans that still lie in front of you.  No matter what has come to you, the disappointments you have known, the consequences you have received, or the wounds that have kept you down.  Even in you have truly failed or wasted a lot of precious time.  ear me shout this life-giving truth:  It is never too late with God!  Jesus said, I came to give life- life in all its fullness (John 10:10), and no woman who makes her life in Christ has to live empty."

"You cannot give up.  Evidently, you woke up this morning still breathing.  And everyday you are left of this earth is a day that God intended for your life to matter.  I do not believe that God means for any of us to live an unfulfilled life."

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.  Think not about your frustration, but about your unfulfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but what is still possible for you to do."