Mountain Biking High (and Low)
Psalm 55:22 Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall. This has not been the best year on record for yours truly. Without getting into the details, take my word for it. I have had better and worse years, but this one is on the more adverse side of the scale. I am reading the Puritans who had a peculiar affinity for eloquence about the redemptive aspect of trials and troubles. One sunny ray in the clouds has been the usage of my sweet Trek mountain bike. I promised myself that after I finished my decade long slog to earning a Ph.D. that I would buy a quality mountain bike. So I did. I had a hybrid bike before that was half street and half mountain and it wound up being good for neither--a mutt where the cross-breeding created a mutant. Think a hound and a poodle. So I followed through on my pledge to get a good mountain bike. The promises we break or keep to ourselves are the most profound. Forgiving others is