Originally posted on April 18, 2006

Regimented. Disciplined. Running the race.
After I got strep throat I broke several healthy routines I had going in my life.
Prayer. Running. Yoga.
This week I'm back on the horse. It's hard when you feel like you're starting from scratch.
Wake up earlier. Make the most of the time you are awake. Eat better. Breathe.
Tonight I'm speaking to a group of charismatic Catholics about power evangelism (at the invitation of a good friend - I'm not quite cool enough to get invited to do that on my own). Sweet. Next week I'm speaking at the Campus ministry I used to intern for. I miss those guys.
Study. Study. Study. Write. Practice.
This weekend I'm going to New York, seeing the Statue of Liberty and hanging out with good friends.
I'm more in love today than I was on the day I proposed. That's a good trend - more in love every day - that I hope continues for the rest of my life.
I'm learning the difference between transforming and letting God transform me. I'm reading Anne Lamott in all her unfiltered beauty. I'm watching Nike soccer ads (Ronaldinho - Joy) and wanting to plant churches as a result.
I'm preparing.
Regimented. Disciplined. Running the race.
Prayer. Study. Dreaming. Friends. Spreading a message of love and beauty and life.

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Originally posted on April 10, 2006

Listed below are 25 things that were true of me five years ago but that are no longer true. These aren't meant to be good or bad, just a sampling of how my life has changed. And they are all surface-level and meant to be fun.

Feel free to post yours in the comments. If you post them on your blog, please leave a link to it in the comments to this post.

1. I commonly woke up at noon
2. I regularly studied Taoism
3. I went out three-four nights a week
4. I was a music director for a campus radio station
5. I was a republican
6. I was addicted to Nick at Nite television programming
7. I carried at least 200 CD's with me pretty much anytime I got into the car
8. I lived in Iowa
9. I lived with 48 men in a two-story, 24-bedroom house
10. Someone else did my taxes
11. I used a PC desktop with Windows 98
12. I played 5-10 hours of video games a week
13. I ate two meals a day in a large cafeteria
14. Almost everyone I knew was my age (and skin color)
15. I had never owned flip flops
16. I drove a Ford Taurus
17. I could wear jeans and a t-shirt on a weekday at 2pm
18. I could fill up a tank of gas for less than $20
19. I was single
20. I smoked
21. I owned less than ten albums that were made without live musical instruments
22. I had a landline, and I used it.
23. I wore a pair of sneakers more or less daily
24. I owned less than ten books, not counting textbooks
25. I slept in a bunk bed

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