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Archives for August 2004

CRIM week

Filed Under: Fireside Academy, Pondering His Creation

Saturday was the CRIM festival of races here in downtown Flint. The CRIM is a festival of foot races and a wheel-chair race held here in Flint for over 25 years.

Our hotel was the host hotel and headquarters for the race. We had thousand and thousands in the building through the week, in all as many as 14,000 or more. There were over 7000 in the 10-mile race alone. I was given the honor of praying before the thousands and thousands of spectators and participants gathered in the street at the beginning of the race.
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Rejection

Filed Under: Circuit-Riding, Current Thoughts, Virtues and Values

A wise man recently told me the secret to overcoming feelings of rejection. He said something like this: “Always know that you have something valuable to give and you will not feel rejected. If you had a stack of one hundred dollar bills to give away you would not care if someone did not want to talk to you, you would just go to the next person.
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The Firefly Effect

Filed Under: Faith and Family

My sweetest childhood memories are of simple things like the tire swing in the big oak out front, playing catch with my Dad, and swimming in the creek. Another of those simple things was chasing fireflies on the lawn as night fell on a summer evening. The bugs only had a small light but they were especially brilliant because of the dark backdrop of the night sky.
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