Philippians 4:13

8:15am...10 miles in nice weather in between storms.  Ran through 8 neighborhoods that are all essentially contiguous.  Good run spent pondering the times and in prayer. (Glide Black)

4 miles in the afternoon before helping a neighbor pack their stuff to move, sad to see them leaving. (Glide Green)

4:45am...5 miles with Moxie in the neighborhood.  (Guide Yellow)

6 miles at lunch to deal with work issues and not thinking about the crazy times.  Beautiful weather was nice. (Glide Black)

3 miles after dinner with Justin. He was very encouraging about my work stresses and helped me a lot, a really good man and son.  (Glide Green)

4:30am...5 miles with Moxie. Got up at 3:30am, I haven't had a full night of sleep in over a month, neck and shoulder locks up and wakes me up a lot. (Glide Black)

Listened to the song "My Defender" by Jeremy Camp on the way to work, helped focus during these trying times.

As of today, officially <5 years to being retirement eligible...now if I have $ to do it with the current market issues.

5 miles on a beautiful day at lunch. (Glide Black)

5 miles on a cooler day at lunch. (Glide Black)

Westminster College just cancelled all in room classes for the reminder of the term (and May Term) and is letting kids out of their housing contracts early.  We will be going to SLC soon to get Justin's stuff.  Just a crazy time with lots of anxiety for everyone.  At least he was not in SLC for the earthquake, but he has not idea of the status of his apartment (his roommate is away as well).

5am...5 miles with Moxie. (Guide Yellow)

6 miles on a beautiful day at lunch. (Glide Black)

4 miles after work. (Glide Green)

So this chaos and anxiety were are facing in the world right now has made me do some hard and deep thinking and praying.  A perspective that I come back to mostly is thinking about the role that God assigned us (humans) for this world…Stewardship.   From the beginning, this was our assigned responsibility and it was corrupted early (think Adam and Eve) and is still the most egregious issue today (which is very easy to see) in our lives…Greed.  We cannot be good stewards if we are greedy.  Stewards of our resources or our relationships.  All “isms” are corrupted by greed, they work on paper but fail in implementation when you insert greed (e.g. people) into the system.  This is true of our economic systems, our political systems, our industrial/technology systems, our relational/social systems.  We must use this opportunity to have us as individuals, as communities, as nations and as a society/world as a whole come back to stewardship for all as our focus and responsibility, not on the greed that then separates and corrupts this role.  We should focus on our society, not our industry; our relationships, not technology; our shared values, not our political differences; our common goals, not our personal differences (e.g. race, color, culture, dress, etc.).  We have seen that God’s nature is good if we think on stewardship not greed and need to balance our societal advancement against our greed.  Look at the air quality in China and Italy, the water quality in Venice as examples of a balance and nature’s goodness if we do not focus on our greed for our accumulation of stuff and experience.  We should focus on helping and caring for each other more (as we are seeing) not continuing to tear each other down (as we are also witnessing).  We should prop up what is important and our relationships with each other and forward values and contribution to others.  We should reward better jobs that matter (teachers, scientists, care providers, food producers and distributors, manufacturers, safety and security officials, etc.) with due compensation and not those that foster greed (entertainers, athletes, politicians, CEO’s, etc.).   If we focus on stewardship, we could have drastic impacts on improving our society and relationships, our resources and our environment.  Let this time be a lesson to us individually and as a whole.  

5 miles early in a light snow storm before getting on a work conference call and touching base with my staff to instruct full telework starting today. (Glide Green)

5 miles with Moxie around midday in nice weather. (Fastwitch White)

I woke up early, so got on the computer and worked for a couple of hours sending emails and doing a training course.  Out around 6am for 6 miles with Moxie in some light rain. Got back right before the rain picked up, so finished my taxes and waiting to go back out for more miles. (Glide Black)

6 miles after the rain stopped. (Glide Green)

3 miles in early afternoon after helping my daughter make Churros...already feeling penned up. (Guide Yellow)