Course Adjustments Along "The Way"

Week 4
September 27-October 3, 2009

Be Faithful   2 Samuel 22:26
     *4 days a week do something to prepare for WTEC
          +Even in adversity   James 1:2-7
     *Once each week journal about the preparation
          +Write the vision   Habakkuk 2:2
     *Continually seek the Father's Heart on this
          +Course adjustments all along "The Way"  John 14:6

Lessons Learned

Jesus is "The Way"

I usually really seek the Father before starting something, then once I begin I get my head down in the task and forget to continue to seek the Father's heart.  I had become so zeroes in on the preparation for the WTEC that I was missing ahuge opportunity to be an ear for my wife.  Oh, I listened to her, but I didn't stop to really hear her and that can be even more damaging.  You see I missed an opportunity to love her on "The Way".

From the beginning of this I have known that God would have things to show me about myself along "The Way", and yet I still buried myself in the activity.  Track star Michael Johnson said that it is about "chasing the dragon, not about slaying it", and he is right.  We can get so overwhelmed with the end result that we forget that God has people for us to love and adventures for us to have on the "The Way".

By the Numbers

• Monday
       *Roped calves
            -concentrated on position
• Tuesday
       *Steer wrestled on ground and horseback
            -focused on smoothing things back out
• Friday
       *Competed in Pasadena
            -competition is something to be practiced as well
• Saturday
       *Helped the boys rope
            -Don't forget - it is not about you