today was the opening day for Star Wars: Episode II and much to my surprise I saw the movie today, but right now I don't really want to talk about that...........

Later today I started running at 5:30pm and finished running at 7:31pm...2 hours of running.....during those 2 hours many things went through my mind and I know that I will not be able to recall them all right now, but first..I started at Oak Meadow Park (Vasona) ran south, at the split in the trail in LG I went to the left, that ended I ran back the fork and went right which took me to Lexington reservoir, I ran up to the dam back and forth accross the dam then continued to run past oak meadow park to the fishing pond, turned around and finished up at Oak meadow park......Man my nipples hurt. During this time one thing I thought of was this game called life......i thought about how Paul describes the Christian walk as a race, and that we should run such as to win the race, and as I thought about this I thought if we are running race, we should prepare before the race....what brought me to this was that a year ago there is no way that I would even consider running for 2 hours straight, and today I just did it, but I was able to because of training and discipline, if we are to run this race of life and run to win we must train ourselves and discpline ourselves, my problem is that currently I find it easier to train my body rather than my Spirit.....Lord I need your help with my spiritual training, I am but a padwon, not a true jedi, I need to learn from the master....For this summer I've been thinking about doing something different, quiting my job which pays me very well and is very flexible with my hours, basically the perfect job in order to help build a house in Kirkwood, I would to this to free myself from some of the ties I have here to liberate myself from this busy life in order to engage in spiritual training while at the same time building something with my hands.....I think about this and it is very enticing, but then I think about my job and what I have here and I feel committed.....not really wanting to give it up....so I pray that God if this is what YOU would have me do....if it would please you more for me to move to kirkwood for the summer.....then I pray that you would whisper that to me.....and now the only thing that remains is for me to quiet myself enough so that I may hear the whisper of God.......for he does speak........2 hours of straight running.......my nipples hurt.....
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