Lucky # 13

First off, Congrats to my coach, Hector. He is currently running a marathon in Idaho. Did I mention he first swam 2.4 miles, in 1:13:49. He then biked 112 miles, in 6:49:28, thats an average of 16.41 mph, for almost 7 hrs. He wins the Kick @$$ award today.


Me, I pushed it pretty good yesterday. 33mile bike and a 5 mile run. Today I am resting and cleaning and organizing. It must be the Cancerian in me. Apparently people who fall under the sign of the Crab can be pretty big homebodies at times. Which is me this weekend, especially after the evil sinuses I had.

Why is it Lucky 13? Well I am on day 13 of my purpose driven life journey. That and I have always found thirteen to be an alright number. Today's Question: Which is more pleasing to God right now- my public worship or my private worship? What will I do about this?

I am very excited by this question. I have long had issues with "organized religion." The things I saw and was led to understand as both a Catholic and an observer of religion, left me with many questions to the validity of God's so called "flock." Instead, I often believed that it was more important to worship God in nature than in the brick and mortar of his churches. I have often said, "Why worship God inside a house we built for him, when I can step outside my door and worship him in the house he built for me." For the most part I still find this to be true. In the book, I suppose I fall into the naturalist form of worship. However, as I have been following First Baptist of Orlando, I am impressed with the level of leadership and the direction the church attempts to lead their parishioners in. It leads me to believe that there may be value once again in walking into a house man built for God. As for which is more pleasing to God? I believe it is my private worship outside the walls of the church. But I also think, I am being nudged to start becoming more active within the church community.

RACE COUNTDOWN: 7 days!