Getting in Shape!...Day 17!

Robie at the Shop!
He is really good natured!  

Well, today... I walked anyway!

Even though I said I would probably not, do it! I did!  But I had a good excuse!

The Van needed to be taken out to Westland Auto Lube at 1112 North Wayne Road, Westland, MI to have the oil changed.  So after checking out the miles on Map My Walk, to the Oil Change shop... I thought to my self..,'why not just drive out there about 6:00 AM and just walk back!  It would all be on Ford Road which has pretty good sidewalks and that is what I did!  I tell you what... you see things when you walk that you miss totally when you are driving!

Robie and Hashim Ziren at the MHSAA State  Wrestling Championships

I will have Becky take me back this afternoon after Robie finishes!  This is a photo of him and his brother Hashim back at the MHSAA State Wrestling Finals his Sr. year at Fordson High School!  He who is one of the top ranking wrestlers in the history of Dearborn Public Schools.  Hashim was also a  One on One Wrestler who competed on a National Level and in College!  Now he is a police officer in Washington DC!  He is an awesome young man!  If any of you are in the Detroit area, Westland Auto Lube is a very good place to get your oil changed!  FYI... (734) 722-4326 ‎(just tooting their horn a bit!)

I have mentioned this before, but back in the early 70's Arthur Blessitt came through Birmingham pulling the cross that he still shoulders and preached there at a local Baptist Church.  I was saved at one of his meeting!  Then just this last Sunday night I preached on "Jesus loves you..." which is a very short sentence that has struck my interest again because of a local Radio Show host wrote on my Face Book "Jesus loves you...Trey!"  When I read that it nailed me!  I did a double take when I saw the phrase and it hit me like a ton of bricks!  Not just the sentence but the reality of it!  I have been a Christian since 1971 and we used to say to that each other all the time but it had been years since someone had directed that to me like that!

Arthur Blessitt sticker from the 1970'

So Sunday I decided to preach... "Jesus loves me...!"  It was simple but powerful!  Then after the message John Koski went and got a Bible he had from the early 80's and pulled out this sticker.  It was the exact stickers that we used to give away.  It was something I had not seen since the mid 70's!

From Robie's T-shirt to Arthur Blessitt's stickers, this message of God being proactive in reaching out to us is something that is overwhelming to me!  I am just humbled by His actions!

I want to be like Moses in front of the burning bush...

"With my feet on the ground!"

Simply Trey

p.s. I walked back from Westland and racked up more than 13 miles and felt good at the end!
To date, I have a cumulative total for the past 17 days of walking, 174 miles...
                   I MUST BE GETTING IN SHAPE!