For Your Viewing Pleasure

Here's a mini-sculpture my glue gun created for me while I was away from my work desk.

Good job, little glue gun.

Poo Poo Point

No, I'm not being childish. That's really the name!

Last night after work it was a beautiful evening, I had some excessive energy that needed burning off. I was thinking about going for a run, but then I remembered that I've been wanting to find this trail to Poo Poo Point ever since I'd heard about it (which was several weeks ago when a bunch of us went hiking up Tiger Mountain on West Trail #3). It was a bit tricky to find, but after asking a local, I discovered the trailhead just off Front Street by the Issaquah High School. Four-and-a-half miles later and 1,800 feet higher, I stood in a small clearing on a hilltop, watching paragliders launch themselves into space. I didn't know they would be up there. It looked extremely fun.

Mentos and Diet Coke

Who would have ever thought they would be such an explosive combination?

Or if you want to see explosive, check out what happens when you add very small amount of alkali metals to bath tubs full of water.

Friendship

True friends will let you know what they really think about you. True friends don't just pat you on the back and say, "Keep on trucking," if they feel you are heading the wrong direction. True friends are willing to confront you with the truth, even if they know that it will sting. They will risk your rejection of them because they recognize that the truth is more important than you feeling good about yourself. True friends are harder to just "hang out with" because they are the type that help get you out of trouble, rather than getting into it with you. True friends don't compromise.

Quiet

Sometimes I think that a lack of blogging is a good thing. It means that life is busy happening, and you don't have much time to sit down and type about it. Is that why I haven't updated this blog in a couple weeks? Probably. I mean, I've been pretty busy. But also lots is going on inside. I think that God is taking me on an adventure, holding out an offer of true change... I get to become someone else, not the old me, but the new me. I just have to jump on board and say, "Ok." It's a matter of accrued obedience, saying yes throughout the days, which will position me for that shifting into destiny. While I will continue to be trained throughout my life, my season of training is ending. It is time to do. It is time to be. It is time to not mess around.

The best is yet to come.