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The Rock - PUSH

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore, and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.

Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, the devil decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's weary mind "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to move it." This gave the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll just put in my time, giving just the minimum effort and that will be good enough." And that is what he planned to do until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.

"Lord" he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?"

The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to me, with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so?

Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewy and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done. I, my friend, will now move the rock."


At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God wants is just simple obedience and faith in Him.... By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves the mountains. You just P.U.S.H.!

When everything seems to go wrong,... P.U.S.H.!

When the job gets you down,... P.U.S.H.!

When people don't react the way you think they should,... P.U.S.H.!

When your money is short and the bills are due,... P.U.S.H.!

When you want to curse them out for whatever the reason,... P.U.S.H.!

When people just don't understand you,... P.U.S.H.!

P.U.S.H. = Pray Until Something Happens!

Camping Art

Temporary fix...

I will be posting a few of my friends pictures from our weekend camping trip, just until I can get our own pictures posted.

Dinner time.

During a thunderstorm, most of us crammed into the van to play Boggle.

In which we present the Millers with their sleeping quarters.

The loudest group in the camp...hands down.

One of my animal friends, just chillin on my shoulder.

Our friend, Matthew Miller along with his daughter Catherine.

Waiting for our turn in the kyaks

We got to take out some great kyaks on the lake one afternoon. Here you see me modeling THE coolest kyak I have ever used, so fast. The weather was beautiful, and everyone had a fantastic time.

The Heritage Christian Church Swim Team comes in from a succesful...uh...swim.

In which we enjoy a great story and reading by our father's

Almost looks like Michael doesn't have any legs, doesn't it?

Cheating? Us? NEVER!

I feel so evil...

For once, I'm posting before Michael by stealing his own pictures....muahahaha.

I'm only putting a few up, so as to not take all of his thunder away...until I can get the ones from our camera posted.

If Boys Would Be Men, Would Girls Be Ladies?

I recommend that you check out my friend's latest post on her blog:

www.maidenofhonor.blogspot.com

Good stuff.

Djokovic Upsets Federer For Rogers Masters Crown

Serbia's Novak Djokovic capped a dream week at the Rogers Masters on Sunday afternoon in Montreal, capturing his second ATP Masters Series shield of the year with a 7-6(2), 2-6, 7-6(2) championship victory over Roger Federer.

Although the competition was strong throughout the two-hour, 13-minute match, the penultimate game of the first set was one of the more pivotal games. Federer served for the set at 6-5 and even led 40-0, but squandered six set points in total (five on unforced errors) to allow Djokovic his chance in a tie-break. And the 20-year-old Serbian didn't let down, winning 7-2 to take a one-set lead over his 26-year-old Swiss foe.

The second set was all Federer, who threatened on Djokovic's first two service games then finally pulled away with four straight games (including two breaks) from 2-2 to win the set 6-2 and send the championship bout into a deciding third.

The No. 1-seeded Federer dropped his opening service game in the third but would break back for 4-4 later in the set, and the two headed for a tie-break again. And once again it was the No. 3-seeded Djokovic who came through in the tie-break, improving his season tie-break record to 22-7 with another 7-2 win to clinch victory.

With his wins over World No. 3 Andy Roddick and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal, in the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively, as well as his first win in five career meetings with Federer in the final, Djokovic becomes the first player since Boris Becker at Stockholm in 1994 to defeat the Top 3 players in the ATP Rankings at the same tournament. Thirteen years ago, Becker beat No. 3 Michael Stich in the quarterfinals, No. 1 Pete Sampras in the semifinals and No. 2 Goran Ivanisevic in the final. On Monday, Djokovic will return to No. 3 in the ATP Rankings.

Djokovic now owns four ATP titles, having already won his first ATP Masters Series shield in Miami in March as well as other ATP events at Adelaide and Estoril. This was his third ATP Masters Series final of 2007, having also finished runner-up at Indian Wells (to Nadal). All three of those finals have come in North America.

Federer falls to 4-3 in ATP finals this year. He was seeking his 50th career ATP title and was also looking to become the third player in the Open Era to win at least three Canadian titles. Ivan Lendl won six titles (1980-81, 1983, 1987-89) and Andre Agassi three titles (1992, 1994-95).

Narnia and the North...

Our family has been listening to the dramatized Narnia tapes these past two weeks. My brain is filled with talking horses, battles with witches, Great lions, Sea serpents, and enchantments.

That being said...last night I made these for fun. Feel free to download them for your own use...

NOTE: they are made to fit the resolution of my desktop (1152 x 864). If they don't fit your desktop correctly, send me an email or a comment with your resolution, and I'll do my best to resize it for you.

Canada Vacation (Part One) - Prince Edward Island

This is the P.E.I. phase of our vacation on Canada last week. As always, the landscape declared God's creativity. It was a blessed time with friends, praying, meeting new people, bridge jumping, taking midnight walks, climbing trees, and singing songs around a campfire while roasting s'mores.

I never get tired of this shot....God is amazing.

The Petrofky's guys brought Jon and I to the Pickering Farm nearby to help Mr. Pickering "sling hay bales". I was standing near the barn, when I heard a sound below me....I looked at the floor of the barn, and saw these cows just staring at me through a hole in the floor.

Red River Cereal for breakfast....yummy.