I was doing a workout on Zwift and to pass the time I typically listen to a podcast or audio book and keep an eye on the workout on the TV and the Companion app on the iPhone.
One of the Companion app features is to be able to message nearby riders. This is typically used on group rides and races. Everyone in a while I’ll have a look at what folks are saying. Today, I got a bit of a surprise!
I hope the kid is OK, I didn’t see any more messages. BTW the (DIRT) after the guys name is the name of a Zwift club and it stands for Dads Indoors Riding Trainers.
Since I’ve recently changed WordPress themes from DevotePress to Catch Responsive I’ve been doing a fair bit of updating and maintenance work. All this playing around with the blog got me to wondering, just when did I start this blog?
Well, the answer is March 24, 2005 with the posting of Grid for Good. Certainly nothing spectacular but a start. From there I reviewed 10-15 of the oldest posts and it was quite interesting to see what I was doing, and thinking about at a point in time.
However, there were some problems with the older posts. They were fine and worked at the time but now several of the links are broken due to internet content just “going away”. Also surprising, lots of really old links still work!
I also discovered some stuff that I’d forgotten. Things like the blogs I played with before settling on this self-hosted wordpress site. I’d totally forgotten about Tempus Fugit on Blogspot and for a while I was using Tempus Fugit on WordPress.com. surprise, they are both still there.
For photographs I started off on Picasa which morphed over to Google Photos and then finally settled on flickr.
Back in the day photos on the blog were almost always embedded from flickr. It seems the embed code has changed over the years and while the photos are no longer showing up, there is typically still a photo title link that will take you over to flickr to see the photo. I suppose I could go back and fix this, but that would be pretty time consuming so, not likely to happen. 😉
That’s me on Zwift, in the centre, blue and white jersey. As you can see I’m pushing 251 watts which is a decent effort for me. I’m on an 11% grade and doing a measly 7 kph.
What is less obvious is that I’ve just been passed by the running dude up ahead on the right! Somewhat discouraging. Passed by a better cyclist, well OK, but a runner!!!
Every morning in this advent season when I come to reading this devotion just looking at the title image brings me joy.
It just resonates on so many levels. Historically, the coming of king Jesus as a baby, presently as the king comes to people who accept him, and prophetically as the future second coming of Jesus. All of these are so exciting. And, if I’m not alive to see the second coming, king Jesus will come to meet me when I die. Either way, what a day that will be.
OK, so I’m a bit of an Apple fan, not quite a fan boy, but up there.
With the latest iOS and the ability for widgets on the Home Screen I did some playing around and settled on this Apple widget at the top of my screen.
By default it shows my 6 things in a sort of random, but also some what intelligent way.
First thing in the morning I get a display about what apps I might want to launch, scarily predicting what I might like to do based on past usage. Then the weather, generally useful, the calendar for the day with the next 1-2 events, again useful. Top Apple News stories which is OK but I have not yet succumbed to subscribing. A Map, a bit of a mystery for me and not yet useful. And then there is the best of all!
It’s the photo! Generally, some combination of Grandkids like today’s where we were going to the 2019 Santa Claus parade with all of them together, which is a bit of a rare event to go somewhere all together with just Shirley and I. As I recall it was like hearing cats, but a lot of fun.
If it’s not Grandkids it’s some other photo that Apple has figured out as a “Featured Photo”. Not sure how they do that. Some of them I’ve flagged as “liked” other are well… just photos that show up.
Always brings a smile to my face and an extra bit of happiness to my day.
Pulled this from a Rick Warren devotional that really spoke to me today. I had this revelation about a week ago regarding Jesus as The Truth, so today this just drove it home more.
We know God’s Truth: Jesus Christ
Truth is not a principle. Truth is a person; truth is Jesus Christ.
One of the clearest and best-known statements by Jesus is: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 NLT)
Notice Jesus says, “I am the truth .” He doesn’t say truth is a religion, or a ritual, or a set of rules and regulations. He says “I.” Truth is a person.
This is what separates Jesus Christ from every other leader of every other faith. Other leaders have said, “I’m looking for the truth” or “I’m teaching the truth” or “I point to the truth” or “I’m a prophet of truth.” Jesus comes and says, “I am the truth.”
A lot of people say, “I think Jesus was just a great teacher.” But he couldn’t be just that: No great teacher would claim to be God if he wasn’t. Either Jesus is conning 2.3 billion people who believe a lie, or he was nuts, or Jesus is who he said he was.
Everybody’s betting their life on something. I’m betting my life that Jesus is who he said he was.
Rick Warren’s Daily Devotional on Youversion – Day 288
Forget about the presents needing to be wrapped and…
focus instead on being present in each moment.
Take time to celebrate God in the process. He is at work this Christmas season. Don’t wait until December 25 to notice.
Really liking this devotional on Youversion. Every time I see the title “The King is Coming” I get a bit more excited about the season and the 2nd coming.
Interesting that in the amplified translation it says… forgive and let go
I think the letting go is perhaps even harder and more important that the forgiveness.
“Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? Up to seven times?”” Matthew 18:21 AMP https://www.bible.com/1588/mat.18.21.amp
By the way, Jesus’s answer was 70 times 7, in other words, forgive all the time.
Somewhere along the line in my meditation journey I discovered encounter, “A daily podcast of sacred and mindful meditations to help you encounter the divine presence of God throughout your day.”
I usually end my devotional readings listening to the meditation of the day. These meditations are almost always synchronized to the “Verse of the Day” from the youversionapp that I use for my devotional readings.
On Tuesday (2020/11/17), Romans 8:6 (NASB) was the verse of the day. “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace”. This particular translation has “the mind set on the flesh” and I has this thought. I know this isn’t totally accurate and for sure way to literal perhaps but I had the thought anyway and it helped me. My focusing or thinking about (“and set on”) the cancer, the tumour, the treatments etc. is “death” but if I set my mind on the Holy Spirit it is “life and peace“. This probably only makes sense to me but who knows. Anyway, for sure the meditation is worth a listen.
www.bible.com/reading-plans/135/day/288
