Tuesday Evening

After a day of wrestling with the Waldensians, the Inquisition, Scholasticism, and a bunch of other interesting stuff from church history, along with studying Ephesians 4:1-6, I needed to get out an run.

Tonight was Tuesday Tempo, so I joined about a half dozen others in warming up for a couple of miles and then running hard for 3 miles, followed by a 2 mile cool down. My goal was to run 3 miles at a 6.55 pace, but I hit the first mile at 6.45. I was able to hold that pace for the next mile and then finished with a 6.44. I was very happy with a 6.45, 6.45, 6.44 tempo run! Tomorrow 6 miles, Thursday 10, off Friday, and then 20 on Saturday. That will make 50 miles for the week.

Here are some things a wrote down/copied today.

From Henri Nouwen:

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

Isn’t this what the church is supposed to be/do? Yes. The answer is yes.

Do we value God’s love enough to be shaped by it?

“The ego is the main problem in relations, for therein lies the origin of feelings of inferiority and arrogance, of envy and greed, of prejudice and defensiveness, and of intolerance and abuse. As William Temple noted, pride is always the root of spiritual failure. The solution is in a sense of God’s grace, for grace prevents the ego from inflating its own significance.” K. Snodgrass