Howdy all,
Yes, you didjust receive a semi-cowgirl greeting - I refuse to use the conjunction ya'll even if it would have completed the package. This greeting sums me up somewhat. I dreamed as a youngen that I would marry a sheep farmer in Australia or a rancher in Montana ((none of these options were reasonable since I grew up in Florida) and would ride horses all day as I checked out the boundaries of our ranch. Instead, I was led to New Jersey to live in a semi-urban area and drive my car around all day getting groceries and carting my children to activities. I did marry the man of my dreams, though he ended up loving trucks (and me, of course) instead of horses. So, I still hold onto my cowgirl dream as a part of me, but realize that my life is very different than I imagined.
Why all the long dissertation on a simple greeting? I guess I'm in a remembering mood as to my younger days. And in my younger days in college, I fell in love with bike riding when I took a Physical Education course I took at Calvin College on biking. It was either that or another semester of raquetball where I was pegged in the head by ball after ball as I blindly sought to return my oponent's serve. So, biking it was. With tests on bike parts and a biking log in to fill out if I wanted an A, I biked around miles of Western Michigan, to and from classes, joined the bike club and entered a few short bike races, and even kept it up in New Jersey until my children came along.
Now I find myself confronted with a different kind of biking challenge. I still am planning on renewing my knowlege of bike parts and filling up a new biking log over the next 7 months, but my goal is not an A in a college course. This time my goal is to help the CRC and their partners to bring hope and the love of God to those who are poor. I think this may be a huge lesson that I need to learn more than anything else I learned in college - to care about those who are close to God's heart. I realize my heart needs just as hard of a workout as do my legs as I prepare for this bike tour. Please pray for me (a person with a very weak Mercy gift) that my heart will grow along with my leg muscles.
I am excited, by the way, to learn we are starting from Calvin College on this last leg of the bike tour. I will probably be pedalling some of the same ground as in my college days, at least for the first 20-30 miles.
Yes, you didjust receive a semi-cowgirl greeting - I refuse to use the conjunction ya'll even if it would have completed the package. This greeting sums me up somewhat. I dreamed as a youngen that I would marry a sheep farmer in Australia or a rancher in Montana ((none of these options were reasonable since I grew up in Florida) and would ride horses all day as I checked out the boundaries of our ranch. Instead, I was led to New Jersey to live in a semi-urban area and drive my car around all day getting groceries and carting my children to activities. I did marry the man of my dreams, though he ended up loving trucks (and me, of course) instead of horses. So, I still hold onto my cowgirl dream as a part of me, but realize that my life is very different than I imagined.
Why all the long dissertation on a simple greeting? I guess I'm in a remembering mood as to my younger days. And in my younger days in college, I fell in love with bike riding when I took a Physical Education course I took at Calvin College on biking. It was either that or another semester of raquetball where I was pegged in the head by ball after ball as I blindly sought to return my oponent's serve. So, biking it was. With tests on bike parts and a biking log in to fill out if I wanted an A, I biked around miles of Western Michigan, to and from classes, joined the bike club and entered a few short bike races, and even kept it up in New Jersey until my children came along.
Now I find myself confronted with a different kind of biking challenge. I still am planning on renewing my knowlege of bike parts and filling up a new biking log over the next 7 months, but my goal is not an A in a college course. This time my goal is to help the CRC and their partners to bring hope and the love of God to those who are poor. I think this may be a huge lesson that I need to learn more than anything else I learned in college - to care about those who are close to God's heart. I realize my heart needs just as hard of a workout as do my legs as I prepare for this bike tour. Please pray for me (a person with a very weak Mercy gift) that my heart will grow along with my leg muscles.
I am excited, by the way, to learn we are starting from Calvin College on this last leg of the bike tour. I will probably be pedalling some of the same ground as in my college days, at least for the first 20-30 miles.
1 comment:
At least you get to spend a lot of time "in the saddle" this year!! Although maybe not the kind you dreamed of as a kid... :) Biking and horseback riding were kind of a package deal for me growing up in rural Michigan...I had to ride my bike 2 miles each way to and from the farm where I rode horses. My rear end was a lot younger in those days...
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