Sweaty Dude
I heard this opening drop to Jillian Michaels' radio show from a couple of years ago and HAD to share it. Love this!! It's totally true!
"There's always that guy, by the way, at the gym next to me on the StairMaster. You know, the guy who...sweat is POURING off this guy all over the equipment. Like, okay, first of all, dude, A TOWEL - we need to start there."
Listen to this episode:
http://www.mediafly.com/MediaPlayer/Episode/Jillian_Michaels_107
Winter
I'm not a huge fan of winter. I much more prefer the warm, summer sunshine :) But, there are a few things that I love about it.
Fires
Sweaters
Basketball
Family
Parties
What do you love about this season?
More To This
This was in a blog that I read daily, and I could not help but pass it along. Great questions. Great answers.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2009/09/simplicity-of-prayer-for-beginners.html
Long have we labeled prayer as only the petitioning, the coming with the lists and the ardent entreaties.
But if that is all prayer is, then why did Jesus pray? Why would very God pray? God need not beg of God. Prayer must be more than asking, supplication; that can’t be why Jesus prayed.
To give us an example? Yes, surely. But more.
Could prayer ultimately be about a Son wanting Father? A Son missing intimacy with His Father? A Son longing for the communion of relationship within the Godhead?
A Child coming and pressing close to Father with the prayer, “I need your face. Turn to me.”
Songwriting
There is nothing more humiliating, nothing more painful than exposing the deepest, darkest parts of your heart to strangers. And yet, I do this every day as a writer and performer. There is something about the pain that is rewarding; the masochistic, repetitive exchange of numbing and feeling that draws me in for more. It is haunting. This revealing of myself is my own superpower: the fact that I can cause myself pain and defeat and delight and freedom all in a matter of three minutes. It goes beyond that, however, into the small room in which I write. Thinking back on my own former victories and failures. Something about digging up everything I’ve stuffed in the back pocket of my mind drives me. It is this that encapsulates songwriting. Don’t believe anyone who would tell you otherwise. I do not believe they know.
“Being a writer is one of the most masochistic endeavors. I love to hate it. It's a crossword puzzle with no answer in tomorrow's paper.”
"What is it that drives a highly motivated overachiever to look at his own potential destruction as excitement and as a potential release?"
–John Mayer
