Jumping, Running & Biking
Durning our time with family in August Luke and Bree climbed and jumped out of Grandma's apple tree a hundred times. And they both got a ride on Rich's louder than thunder motorcross bike. In New Brunswick they jumped off a bridge into a creek. I thought it was incredible that my six year old son would jump the 15 feet... Then Bree the four year old went and did it. She won't let her brother get all the glory. No way!According to Bree yesterday, today was "daughter and daddy time"... so after Luke got on the bus for the first day of grade 1 daughter and daddy headed to Banff for the day. Starbucks. Cool purple sunglasses. Lush smelly bath stuff for girls. Gondola up a mountain. Hike for an hour to an isolated peak - just the two of us. Bubblegum ice cream at Cows. Hike up to the Cascade waterfall and play with rocks and water for an hour before heading home. A good day!
Well, Yesterday morning I got lost running. I ran from the Waqenasts home uphill and out of town to The Nordic Centre (5.7 km) and then got turned around amidst the trails below the Nordic Centre all the way back down into town. All in all, around 15 km.
I have a mountain bike getting shipped here from Newfound- land. A Specialized Epic Comp Disc. Got a sweet deal from Mike at Canary Cycles.
I started dreaming about a Specialized bike when Mike toured me around St. John's on this Stump- jumper. I was like, "Dude, what a sweet bike! How much does one of these cost?" When he told me over 4 G's I nearly ate my teeth. I can't believe the steal deal I got on the Epic Comp... Mike I'm going to name a trail after you in Canmore. Already have a shop here to put it together once it arrives. Can't wait.Below are a few pics Mike sent me today of our Newfoundland bike adventure. The last pic is of some grass and flowers just before Mike missed a huge jump and landed in them face down. I said, "Ouch, that must have hurt. You look ok. No blood on this side of you anyway." And Mike layed there silent... for like 20 seconds... I was just staring at him and he was just lying there... And this little voice muffled through the grass and flowers, "Can you get the bike off my leg."
We laughed for days over that one. I was just staring at the guy sprawled like a pretzel in his bike. Oops. Right. First Aid :) Mike, has your arm healed up? How 'bout that rim!? I love the pic of you facing East over the water.
2013, Kirk Bartha
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Kirk:
A hospital is a safe place for the sick, broken, and hurting to heal and be restored; then, once healed, they move on to the next phase of the journey. Does what God is calling you into have something to do with a "spritual hospital" for warriors who are battered and bruised?
Cathy
C, email me on anything to do with Canmore and we can discuss it that way :)
This is from Spurgeon - thought it might encourage you
Psalm 27:14
Wait on the Lord.
It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."
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