Becoming a student of being a good student. Been way too long since I have done this. Need to slow down and read and understand what is being expected of me. Must leverage time more efficiently and allow myself to make a few mistakes along the way.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Desire to learn again
Friday, August 28, 2009
Hello Friday where have you been?
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Go Dallas Cowboys
I am happy to report that Dallas Cowbosy won their game against the Tennesse Titans on Friday night 30 to 10. Being that this is pre season that does not hold a lot of weight in the final season however it was good that they could win the first game in their innaugaral game in their brand new Texas Stadium in Arlington.
The stadium is probably one of the nicest stadiums and most high tech stadiums around for the whopping price of 1.4 billion dollars. The HUGE scoreboard in the stadium itself runs around 400,000 dollars or some astronomical figure. If you go to the game at the stadium and you are up high where you find it difficult to see the action you can just watch the jumbo screen right in front of you and not miss a thing. I am hoping to go visit this stadium this year or next. During pre game warm ups the punters had fun punting the ball into the bottom of the big screen.
I must say that while I can be very critical of how Dallas performs during the past several years I was fairly impressed by what I saw on the field Friday night. The team did make some sloppy mistakes with regards to the unsportsmanship penalties they got for no good reason. Why are we pushing people while they are already out of bounds and on the way to the ground under their own steam? Maybe the coaches will explain the rules of the game to the BOYS and let them know they can't beat up the opponents when they are out of bounds already.
Terrell Owens is gone and so is Tank Johnson which is good news to me. Tony Romo appeared to have his head in the game and did well moving the ball down the field. John Kitna with number 3 on his jersey played quarter back in the second half seemed to be very mobile in the pocket and managed to keep from being sacked and was able to make some difficult completions. There were several recievers that I have never heard of that appeared to do a good job as well. Then there is the work horse full back in Marion Barber who showed that he could pound the ball through the offensive line.
I have no doubt that Dallas will be a team to be watched and hopefully will be able to live up to the talent and depth that they have. I am hopeful that the strict training camp from Wade Phillips instilled some much needed discipline in the troops and they are ready to play some serious smash mouth football. I would love to see the Dallas Cowboys exhibit some class and integrity both on the field and off the field. In the last several years I have seen some very poor decisions with regards to hiring football players who were supposedly awesome on the field playing the game but horrible role models to our youth off the field. Do we really need people like Michael Vick (now on the Eagles roster) who has been convicted of animal abuse and spent time in prison being a role model to our youth? How many people on the Dallas Cowboy roster are known ex cons?
Should we sacrifice the integrity of the game and the over all team class by hiring thugs just because their being there can sell tickets on Sunday? If you have a player that is awesome on the field but can not get along with his fellow team mates and is being traded over and over again to other teams to get rid of them could that be a sign? In professional sports just as in real life it is not always about the one individual but it is about the team. What one person succeeds in or fails in can have immediate and lasting consequences for the team for days and years to come.
Dallas, make me proud to call you America's team even though most of America can not stand you because of your failure to live up to the team reputation of the 1980's and 1990's. Be all that you can be and quit trying to take shortcuts.
A fan of yours through good and bad since 1969!!!
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
chiefpropellerhead@comcast.net
The stadium is probably one of the nicest stadiums and most high tech stadiums around for the whopping price of 1.4 billion dollars. The HUGE scoreboard in the stadium itself runs around 400,000 dollars or some astronomical figure. If you go to the game at the stadium and you are up high where you find it difficult to see the action you can just watch the jumbo screen right in front of you and not miss a thing. I am hoping to go visit this stadium this year or next. During pre game warm ups the punters had fun punting the ball into the bottom of the big screen.
I must say that while I can be very critical of how Dallas performs during the past several years I was fairly impressed by what I saw on the field Friday night. The team did make some sloppy mistakes with regards to the unsportsmanship penalties they got for no good reason. Why are we pushing people while they are already out of bounds and on the way to the ground under their own steam? Maybe the coaches will explain the rules of the game to the BOYS and let them know they can't beat up the opponents when they are out of bounds already.
Terrell Owens is gone and so is Tank Johnson which is good news to me. Tony Romo appeared to have his head in the game and did well moving the ball down the field. John Kitna with number 3 on his jersey played quarter back in the second half seemed to be very mobile in the pocket and managed to keep from being sacked and was able to make some difficult completions. There were several recievers that I have never heard of that appeared to do a good job as well. Then there is the work horse full back in Marion Barber who showed that he could pound the ball through the offensive line.
I have no doubt that Dallas will be a team to be watched and hopefully will be able to live up to the talent and depth that they have. I am hopeful that the strict training camp from Wade Phillips instilled some much needed discipline in the troops and they are ready to play some serious smash mouth football. I would love to see the Dallas Cowboys exhibit some class and integrity both on the field and off the field. In the last several years I have seen some very poor decisions with regards to hiring football players who were supposedly awesome on the field playing the game but horrible role models to our youth off the field. Do we really need people like Michael Vick (now on the Eagles roster) who has been convicted of animal abuse and spent time in prison being a role model to our youth? How many people on the Dallas Cowboy roster are known ex cons?
Should we sacrifice the integrity of the game and the over all team class by hiring thugs just because their being there can sell tickets on Sunday? If you have a player that is awesome on the field but can not get along with his fellow team mates and is being traded over and over again to other teams to get rid of them could that be a sign? In professional sports just as in real life it is not always about the one individual but it is about the team. What one person succeeds in or fails in can have immediate and lasting consequences for the team for days and years to come.
Dallas, make me proud to call you America's team even though most of America can not stand you because of your failure to live up to the team reputation of the 1980's and 1990's. Be all that you can be and quit trying to take shortcuts.
A fan of yours through good and bad since 1969!!!
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
chiefpropellerhead@comcast.net
Seacoast West Ashley Campus and Picture Perfect
Today also marked the first day in 2 weeks in which all of my joints are not hurting me. I spent some time at Healthfirst in N Charleston talking to the doctor and having my meds switched up to give me some optimal relief. It appears that the blood pressure meds I was on was contradicting the other anti inflammatory drugs that were being prescribed and I did not know it until I plugged those drugs in on Drugs.com. I am so thankful for the power of information available to me on the Internet.
Today marked our first visit at Seacoast West Ashley Campus church. We moved to Johns Island back in May of this year and we have been going back and forth to Grace Fellowship Church in Goose Creek. Actually, I have been struggling with letting go of my old church home because I love and care for the people I just spent 9 years of my life with on every Wed night and Sunday morning and all of the special events in between. Grace Fellowship was and still is a small family oriented group of folks who seek to serve God in any way that they can. They have been such a huge blessing to me and my family.
My family has been slowly and methodically encouraging me to let go and get on with our lives on Johns Island which includes finding a church home closer to home that we can attend and serve. Change is always scary especially since it means meeting new people and becoming known. I love to sing on the praise team and I love helping to manage technology so at any new church you have to become known and then you have to become qualified to be allowed to do most things. The important thing is that if you are part of a family or an organization there are rules and standards that are set in place for a reason. If you are going to be a part of the system then you have to be willing to follow those standards even if you may not totally agree with them. Ministry takes a team effort and most of that effort is getting along with others and playing well in the sand box. No one likes a “know it “all or someone who insists on doing it there way.
The service today was a little bit different than what we are used to but not in such a way that we were uncomfortable. I could tell from the stage and the sound booth that we would need to sit about halfway back even though I wanted to sit on the second row so I could really see what was going on. The music was loud but it was not over bearing. The music was contemporary and maybe even some of the songs were very new to me since I had never heard of them. I noticed that there were no screens in the back for the singers to see the words but I think that they had little pedestals in front of them where they could refer to the songs if they needed to which is good.
I was surprised to see that the message “Picture Perfect” was delivered via telecast to the big screen by the main pastor in another location. At first it was sort of weird but I have seen this before so I warmed right up and listened intently to what he had to say. The focus of the message was families and family pictures. The message was about how family pictures are more than just the photos but what goes on behind the scenes and almost never reflects any of the problems or issues that the family members may be facing or have faced in the past.
The pastor went on to expound on how the choices we have made in the past cause us to live through consequences now and can have consequences for generations to come. He spoke about the importance of making good choices and to think about long term consequences and not just the here and now. It was a very good message and service and I would encourage you to download their podcast if you have time to listen to it.
All in all today has been a very good day since I feel much better physically and that has helped me to feel better mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I am looking forward to the new week and what it has to offer. I will be spending a lot of my evening hours studying all four of my class materials which will be pretty new to me after being out of school for 29 years. I can do it!!!
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
chiefpropellerhead@comcast.net
Today marked our first visit at Seacoast West Ashley Campus church. We moved to Johns Island back in May of this year and we have been going back and forth to Grace Fellowship Church in Goose Creek. Actually, I have been struggling with letting go of my old church home because I love and care for the people I just spent 9 years of my life with on every Wed night and Sunday morning and all of the special events in between. Grace Fellowship was and still is a small family oriented group of folks who seek to serve God in any way that they can. They have been such a huge blessing to me and my family.
My family has been slowly and methodically encouraging me to let go and get on with our lives on Johns Island which includes finding a church home closer to home that we can attend and serve. Change is always scary especially since it means meeting new people and becoming known. I love to sing on the praise team and I love helping to manage technology so at any new church you have to become known and then you have to become qualified to be allowed to do most things. The important thing is that if you are part of a family or an organization there are rules and standards that are set in place for a reason. If you are going to be a part of the system then you have to be willing to follow those standards even if you may not totally agree with them. Ministry takes a team effort and most of that effort is getting along with others and playing well in the sand box. No one likes a “know it “all or someone who insists on doing it there way.
The service today was a little bit different than what we are used to but not in such a way that we were uncomfortable. I could tell from the stage and the sound booth that we would need to sit about halfway back even though I wanted to sit on the second row so I could really see what was going on. The music was loud but it was not over bearing. The music was contemporary and maybe even some of the songs were very new to me since I had never heard of them. I noticed that there were no screens in the back for the singers to see the words but I think that they had little pedestals in front of them where they could refer to the songs if they needed to which is good.
I was surprised to see that the message “Picture Perfect” was delivered via telecast to the big screen by the main pastor in another location. At first it was sort of weird but I have seen this before so I warmed right up and listened intently to what he had to say. The focus of the message was families and family pictures. The message was about how family pictures are more than just the photos but what goes on behind the scenes and almost never reflects any of the problems or issues that the family members may be facing or have faced in the past.
The pastor went on to expound on how the choices we have made in the past cause us to live through consequences now and can have consequences for generations to come. He spoke about the importance of making good choices and to think about long term consequences and not just the here and now. It was a very good message and service and I would encourage you to download their podcast if you have time to listen to it.
All in all today has been a very good day since I feel much better physically and that has helped me to feel better mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I am looking forward to the new week and what it has to offer. I will be spending a lot of my evening hours studying all four of my class materials which will be pretty new to me after being out of school for 29 years. I can do it!!!
James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
chiefpropellerhead@comcast.net
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