WHOO HOO!!!

THE FLYERS DID IT!!! THEY ARE IN THE STANLEY CUP FINALS!!!

I had an exciting business meeting last night and missed the game. However, as soon as I got back into the car, I was tuned into the radio station that usually broadcasts the Flyers' games. Alas, that radio station was nothing but static where I was! ARGHHH!!!

I made it as quickly towards home as I could and finally started picking up some of the broadcast through a lot of static with about four minutes left in the game. I pumped my fist into the roof of the car when that last empty netter was scored and I remember exactly where I was when that final buzzer sounded. I screamed so loudly in joy and managed to keep the car going straight within the lines of my lane. I almost had tears in my eyes. (The first and last time I cried over hockey was when Ray Bourque finally touched the Stanley Cup after 21 seasons in the NHL and skated it around the rink.)

 

I will cry again bawl when the Flyers win the Stanley Cup.

Hysterical + Hilarious = Hysterious

1984...



2010...

My Flyers

As you can see from my moniker, I am a huge hockey fan.  100% unashamedly and unabashedly Philadelphia Flyers fan.  In the past 2 years, I have put hockey aside to focus on building my business.  Afterall, when the business grows to a point where it allows me to buy back all my time, I can also buy a couple of season box seats and go to every single home game.

Still, especially since we haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1975, Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals is enticing.  I am taking the opportunity of some time and watching it tonight.

Let's go Flyers!!

Addendum: Flyers won! I'm smelling the Stanley Cup already!

Learning A New Language

Since I am trying to break into the Spanish-speaking market, I have been picking some words of Spanish here and there.  My Puerto Rican friends have been very helpful.  Mi español poquito! Hablar Ingles?

Even though I am nowhere being able to converse in Spanish, I am proud to say that I am making progress.  YAY!

I can now say more than "Donde esta el baño?"

Tech Issues

Now, even though I have a business that I can run through the wonderful world wide web, I am no techie.  Just like I know how to use the TV but have no clue about the plasma technology employed to give beautiful pictures...  Or my friend Rob asking me something about "Word Press" upon finding out that I use Blogspot to blog, and promptly smacking his forehead and groaning when I replied, "What's that?"  (What is Word Press anyway?)

So when I start having issues with my IP Fax, I am rather unhappy.  There are 2 companies I fax fairly often.  Both use fax servers instead of hard-wired fax machines.  So when one company receives my faxes and the other does not, is it not the logical conclusion that the problem is not my end?  Yet I can receive no satisfactory (or prompt) answer from that company's service desk, aside from the initial insistence that the problem was on my end. 

In the meanwhile, I am stuck picking up the cost of couriering materials instead of faxing them in.  Sigh.

Totally Awesome!!

Expanding Business

Business is exploding right now. I am grateful to God for giving me these opportunities to become involved in people's lives and make a difference.

This afternoon, I talked with a sharp, very ambitious and highly-motivated young man in Reading, PA. This evening, I talked with a similarly ambitious young lady with big dreams and she lives in New Mexico. I am really looking forward to bringing them on board!

Here's to helping people and their families to having better lives!

Foaming Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitiser

Newly-launched, I am so darn excited about it! Why in the world am I so excited about something like that?

1. It is alcohol-free. That means it does not dry out your hands and it won't sting if you have cuts!
2. The active ingredient is benzalkonium chloride -- an antiseptic agent that I use for First Aid (and believe me, I use my fair share of it!)
3. It comes in a little 1.7 fl.oz. bottle (125 uses) -- I can bring it through airport security!!!
4. My hands were really soft and smooth after using it.
5. The bottle is recyclable.
   

You can get it here.

Marriage Ministry

Those two words are not what you think I mean. I was recently reminded of what marriage was meant to be -- to honour the Lord and glorify Him. Marriage is a ministry to your spouse, to help and encourage your spouse to become more like Christ in a God-glorifying process. We are part of God's plan of sanctification of our spouse.

My first reaction to arguments with my spouse is probably common to most couples -- I get mad at my spouse. My first thought is not "How can we use this issue to glorify God?" and my second thought is not "How can I help my spouse become the person that God intended for him to become?" Yet, I know now that I need to keep these questions in the forefront of my mind for every argument we have.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ has transformed my life and there has been fruit in my life. However, I also need to have that fruit show in how I relate to my spouse. So I need to learn to step back from the emotion of anger and ask those two questions first, instead of visualising clobbering him.

Breathing in God

Today was a pretty darn hot day. Add humidity and these two things are affecting my ability to have a restful Sunday evening. The evening breeze is some sort of a welcome thing, except that it is merely pushing around hot and humid air. I would probably say the same thing when this happens in August, as it usually does, not in May. (The sun is going down as I type, so the temperature is cooling.) Nonetheless, I find that it connects a spiritual truth in my go-all-over-the-place mind.

If you have ever experienced hot and humid days without much air movement, you would know the feeling of being so surrounded that you almost feel like you are suffocating in the humidity. I guess that is kind of what God's immanence is like, minus the suffocating part.

I have experienced periods of time when God's presence is so real and so surrounds me that it feels as though I am breathing in Him. There is no place to go where He is not, even when we are unaware of Him.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one. He would reveal not only that He is, but what He is as well... Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

-- from "Tozer on the Almighty God", 2 May

Indeed that the Almighty God wants to be known by us! And He places Himself around us all the time everyday just so that we can find and know Him when we try. If I would just be more conscious of breathing in God every day of my life!