#1.) "Pastor Trey, It's not good to just lay in that ditch after you just tripped! Here, let me help you up!"
#2.) "Pastor Trey, when are we going to get there...? I have to go to the bathroom!!!
#3.) "Pastor Trey, why are there no houses in this part of Michigan and where are we going to go, to get to the bathroom?"
#4.) "Pastor Trey, why is that coyote following us? He sure is skinny looking!!!"
#5.) "Pastor Trey, are you faster than a coyote? I feel like jogging instead of just walking right now! Is that OK?
#6.) "Pastor Trey, are you faster than me? I didn't know coyotes could run like that!"
to be continued...!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A treat for me!
Last night I was thinking about a person who has walked around the World! His name is Arthur Blessitt. In the early 70's he came walking through Birmingham, Alabama dragging a cross over his right shoulder. He ended up preaching at Hunter Street Baptist Church in Birmingham before he left town.
I was in those series of meetings with him and it is there were Jesus was first preached so I could understand that a person could have a personal relationship with God and that Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Life in this equation! I distinctly remember being taught in my local Methodist church that all you needed to do was ... 'to be good' and 'do good' to make it to Heaven...so I was a "good kid" and "did" good things. But my heart was black as tar!
As Arthur preached Jesus and told stories of how Jesus was working in people's lives... it made me awfully hungry to know what he was talking about on a personal level!
Arthur told us that if we would turn away from what was killing us as people... (in my case there was not much to turn from because I was a good Methodist) but Arthur was referring to sin and we know that this is a plight for everyone who breathes!
So I said to my self..."that is what I want...!" When I did that, I discovered two very real things! 1.) Jesus was real! 2.) The devil was for real also!
Immediately I was barraged with very loud and caustic thoughts that said things like...'you are an idiot, don't do that...! You see, as soon as I decided to ask Jesus to forgive me and come into my life, hell became irritated! So a hail of 'opposition' kicked in!
Up to that point, I had never heard such aggravated and irritated words in my life! This all happened as I began to respond to Jesus! The suggestions were so forceful that I just settled back from my resolve to accept what Arthur was preaching! Then all of the sudden, I experienced a presence that I had never known before. I can still remember the sensation! It was like someone coming down out of the ceiling in the middle of the room and just covered over me. It was like they were placing their arms around me in such a loving fashion that my heart and mind settled down and I went back to entertaining what Arthur was talking about! There was peace!
Wow! All the time Arthur was still talking, I continued to wrestle with this 'thing' that was not wanting me to respond to Jesus! Then it started again but this time that soothing presence was there. 'People are going to make fun of you...' it said! 'You're not going to have any more friends...', 'you are going to be all alone in this, you will be the only one...!' It was really intense for a 14 year old boy! But that 'presence' just remained steady over me as if having arms wrapped around me and just holding on! Then as sweat from the emotional conflict was pouring off my face I finally said, OK, enough... 'I want you JESUS', I want what he is talking about!' When I said that... Those loving, comforting arms lifted me up from the place where I was sitting and I when I opened my eyes to see, I was standing...! That voice that was badgering me was now being pulled away from me in a harried protest and I can still hear the screaming and protesting! Those loud wranglingers that had been so irritated that I would be 'so stupid' as to listen to this 'crack pot' 'hippy preacher', carrying a cross, faded away with their irritated screams until there was nothing left except 'that loving presence' holding me and waiting on my response to Jesus!
So I looked to the left and to the right and realized that I was in the middle of the pew with at least 10 of my friends on each side of me that I was going to have to step over to go down to the front of the church where Arthur was preaching. He had asked for those who wanted to be "born-again" to come down to the front of the church where he was and that he would pray for us to accept Jesus' offer of forgiveness that would come through His blood that he shed on the Cross so long ago.
That was a start for me! New life for a good kid! My testimony is that Jesus saved me.... from.... uh... sin! My 'tar black' heart was transformed! I was made alive and good by Jesus' blood! Earlier I was "good and dead" There is a difference!
So, last night as I was thinking about Arthur Blessitt... because he has walked around the world carrying that Cross, I looked him up on the web and found an e-mail. Not knowing if it would work or not...I wrote a short letter of introduction and spoke briefly about what I was doing in walking to Mackinaw and by the time I got to the office this morning, an e-mail in response was there, in my 'in-box!' I thought to myself, "wooo!" could this really be him?
I wrote again just to make sure... and asked if I could re-post some of his suggestions about walking that he has written about on his web site to be re-posted on this blog site.
It was him! He wrote back and said...
"...great to hear of your being saved in that meeting... Sounds like you are walking in power in following Jesus." He also said "...we are in Poland carrying the cross just now..."
Praying for your mission,
Blessings,
arthur
So I looked at that and said to myself... 'could that really be him! 1971 was such a long time ago. So I wrote him back again. He said that I should post a link for the site so folks can go there instead of me re-posting all that he has written. So that is what I am going to do right now!
For all of you who are going to walk with me at one time or another. I am supplying a web link to Arthur Blessitt's "ADVENTURE WALKING" web site. I have scanned over it and it has some really good suggestion in practical terms about walking! I hope you enjoy the site and can make good use of his suggestions! I know... that I will!
Copy this web address into your brouser
http://www.blessitt.com/AdventureWalking/AdventureWalking_Page1.html
Simply Trey!
I was in those series of meetings with him and it is there were Jesus was first preached so I could understand that a person could have a personal relationship with God and that Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Life in this equation! I distinctly remember being taught in my local Methodist church that all you needed to do was ... 'to be good' and 'do good' to make it to Heaven...so I was a "good kid" and "did" good things. But my heart was black as tar!
As Arthur preached Jesus and told stories of how Jesus was working in people's lives... it made me awfully hungry to know what he was talking about on a personal level!
Arthur told us that if we would turn away from what was killing us as people... (in my case there was not much to turn from because I was a good Methodist) but Arthur was referring to sin and we know that this is a plight for everyone who breathes!
So I said to my self..."that is what I want...!" When I did that, I discovered two very real things! 1.) Jesus was real! 2.) The devil was for real also!
Immediately I was barraged with very loud and caustic thoughts that said things like...'you are an idiot, don't do that...! You see, as soon as I decided to ask Jesus to forgive me and come into my life, hell became irritated! So a hail of 'opposition' kicked in!
Up to that point, I had never heard such aggravated and irritated words in my life! This all happened as I began to respond to Jesus! The suggestions were so forceful that I just settled back from my resolve to accept what Arthur was preaching! Then all of the sudden, I experienced a presence that I had never known before. I can still remember the sensation! It was like someone coming down out of the ceiling in the middle of the room and just covered over me. It was like they were placing their arms around me in such a loving fashion that my heart and mind settled down and I went back to entertaining what Arthur was talking about! There was peace!
Wow! All the time Arthur was still talking, I continued to wrestle with this 'thing' that was not wanting me to respond to Jesus! Then it started again but this time that soothing presence was there. 'People are going to make fun of you...' it said! 'You're not going to have any more friends...', 'you are going to be all alone in this, you will be the only one...!' It was really intense for a 14 year old boy! But that 'presence' just remained steady over me as if having arms wrapped around me and just holding on! Then as sweat from the emotional conflict was pouring off my face I finally said, OK, enough... 'I want you JESUS', I want what he is talking about!' When I said that... Those loving, comforting arms lifted me up from the place where I was sitting and I when I opened my eyes to see, I was standing...! That voice that was badgering me was now being pulled away from me in a harried protest and I can still hear the screaming and protesting! Those loud wranglingers that had been so irritated that I would be 'so stupid' as to listen to this 'crack pot' 'hippy preacher', carrying a cross, faded away with their irritated screams until there was nothing left except 'that loving presence' holding me and waiting on my response to Jesus!
So I looked to the left and to the right and realized that I was in the middle of the pew with at least 10 of my friends on each side of me that I was going to have to step over to go down to the front of the church where Arthur was preaching. He had asked for those who wanted to be "born-again" to come down to the front of the church where he was and that he would pray for us to accept Jesus' offer of forgiveness that would come through His blood that he shed on the Cross so long ago.
That was a start for me! New life for a good kid! My testimony is that Jesus saved me.... from.... uh... sin! My 'tar black' heart was transformed! I was made alive and good by Jesus' blood! Earlier I was "good and dead" There is a difference!
So, last night as I was thinking about Arthur Blessitt... because he has walked around the world carrying that Cross, I looked him up on the web and found an e-mail. Not knowing if it would work or not...I wrote a short letter of introduction and spoke briefly about what I was doing in walking to Mackinaw and by the time I got to the office this morning, an e-mail in response was there, in my 'in-box!' I thought to myself, "wooo!" could this really be him?
I wrote again just to make sure... and asked if I could re-post some of his suggestions about walking that he has written about on his web site to be re-posted on this blog site.
It was him! He wrote back and said...
"...great to hear of your being saved in that meeting... Sounds like you are walking in power in following Jesus." He also said "...we are in Poland carrying the cross just now..."
Praying for your mission,
Blessings,
arthur
So I looked at that and said to myself... 'could that really be him! 1971 was such a long time ago. So I wrote him back again. He said that I should post a link for the site so folks can go there instead of me re-posting all that he has written. So that is what I am going to do right now!
For all of you who are going to walk with me at one time or another. I am supplying a web link to Arthur Blessitt's "ADVENTURE WALKING" web site. I have scanned over it and it has some really good suggestion in practical terms about walking! I hope you enjoy the site and can make good use of his suggestions! I know... that I will!
Copy this web address into your brouser
http://www.blessitt.com/AdventureWalking/AdventureWalking_Page1.html
Simply Trey!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Just a thought...while we prepare for the walk! (Levitucus 26:12)
I have been thinking about the themes for 'Trey's Trek' in September of this year!
This is to help me focus on the task ahead, so I have chosen some passages of Scripture that are helping me keep focused on the event and the task that is upcoming! There are two months and two days left, from today, when we will be heading out from our office building on Michigan Avenue, to begin walking up Hines Drive to initiate Trey's Trek.
Every day I walk and each mile that I cover in getting ready for this event... my body lets me know that there are a 100 reasons why this '56 year old man' should not be doing this 300 miles trek to anywhere!!! It's almost like sitting down to Thanksgiving Dinner at 'Gran' Ma's' and realizing that your 'your eyes are bigger than your stomach!' So staying focused is going to be vital to not only accomplishing the task but actually doing the event in September!
With that said, I have chosen some passages of Scripture that deal with "walking"... to think about..., to chew on mentally and to let settle down in my spirit so that my 'inner man' will be ready 'to tackle' this upcoming 300 mile trek! So here is what I have found so far...
Leviticus 26:12 says... "I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your heads high."
Now let me tell you how this encourages me...
First, I am excited when I read this... because the truth of what is here, is living and active! It's not just random words on a page! These are words from THE ALMIGHTY'S mouth and as such it gets my attention! I am so excited that I have been extended an invitation to be grafted into the vine of HIS people and as such, I have accpeted that invitation and received eternal life because of it. Thank you Jesus! OK...
HE says... "I will walk among you...." in response, I say...
LORD, this encourages me, in that... as an event, YOU walked with YOUR sons and daughters out of horrendous slavery, into a GOD enfused freedom that YOU YOURSELF orchestrated and walked with them and among them as they exited their positions and attitudes as slaves. If YOU did that then... and YOU are the same GOD now; I can be sure that YOU will walk with us as we head out from Dearborn to Mackinaw! My hope is that our attitudes and actions as 'freed folks' from slavery (sin) will fulfill YOUR expectations for who YOU set us free to be! And if YOU walked among them ... YOU will walk with us! We will keep the eyes of our hearts open for YOU along the way!
He also says..."I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt..." in response, I say... LORD, historically you stepped in and revealed YOURSELF to a whole family and YOUR actions on their behalf are stunning to me! If YOU are the same, yesterday, today and forever, then I choose to place my confidence in YOU... acknowledging YOU as my GOD, who is The LORD of the universe! From my personal experience, you brought me out of 'a slavery' that was as stark and as dark as what Israel experienced in Egypt. With a grateful heart, I live in that liberty that YOU provide and with a watchful eye, am careful to stay close to YOU! Remembering where I came from and the sin that I was in, I now... with a new resolve, walk away from that judgement that condemned me and I do it by YOUR grace! What an exodus! YOU are my deliverer!
He says again..."so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians..." in response, I say...
I read somewhere that HIS attitude about us is that "it is for freedom that I set you free..." Woooooooo! I also remember that we are to "Stand firm, then and do not let 'ourselves' (yourselves) be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Woow again! Man...I guess, like the Scripture says... "if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation..." if that is our reality, then we are set! But I know alot of folks who percieve their positioned in life, even as a new creation to be like a new toy that one would receive at Christmas... that that toy, even though it is new in the box, has no batteries in it! But that is not the case! God does not give and then frustrate us with the gift because it does not work! Our gift comes with power! It may not be in the box with the toy initially but 'The gift GIVER doesn't give to disappoint us! In reality, HE provides the batteries so that the toy will operate as it was designed! There is Power to operate our lives in HIS authority and that reality is a present situation that we actually find ourselves in. But the power to operate the toy must be sought, it must be asked for. We must look for it and in turn recieve the gift of His power (the batteries), open it and place the batteries in the appropriate place so that the toy will do it's thing! Then the power must be 'turned on'! In our position as HIS people who have been freed... we must live in HIS presence and operate as HIS community in the power that HE provides. This power, first of all, is to enable us, to not go back into slavery! It is to advance us toward HIS objectives as a part of HIS plan in conjunction with HIS people in this life HE has for us, where we now live. But slavery to whatever bound us before is not to be a part of that solution now! HE has set us free and going back to sin and becoming a slave again, is in no way a part of HIS purpose. Who wants to be a slave again to the same 'stuff ' we were freed from? YUCH! HIS reason for freeing us is that we would be free! "IT IS FOR FREEDOM...!" 'Alleluia!
He says one more thing..."I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your heads high." It is amazing to me that HE would have to remind the ones HE 'delivered' out of Egypt about this again! Were they not living in the middle of what HE was doing for them, right then? Just thinking back in what I know; Egypt, as one of the most powerful nations on Earth at that time was laid to waste, their economy was destroyed, their religious system was desolated, their gods were attacked and mocked and specifically shown as utter fakes. At least 225,000 soldiers along with the best military hardward of the day was wipped out in less than probably 5 to 10 miniutes of time and all of this happened before their very eyes! From my perspective it would be hard to forget all of this... But none the less, HE reminds them again! HE does it with words that are forceful, "I broke the bars of your yoke..." and he says it with no regard for the feelings of the Egyptians! Some would accuse GOD of being full of pride or heartless! I mean they were on the short end of that stick, weren't they? Doesn't GOD love the whole world? Of course HE does, but we are not aware of the centuries of pleading and wooing that HE engaged in with the Egyptians before HE judged them for their blatant idolotry and refusal to listen to HIM. There is a lesson in this for Nations today...(whole families of people- 'Ethnos') that refuse to "...Hear HIS voice...!" GOD is definately impartial in regards to HIS love for Mankind and HE states this in Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in any form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD (YHVH) your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of there fathers to the third and forth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." John, one of Jesus' closest disciples wrote, "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the work through Him." It is here where our freedom sits at the fulcrum of history and reality. Jesus is our turing point, our balance point, our freedom, our reality! He sets us free, He keeps us free, if we stay locked into Him. His very name actually means ..."YHVH is our Salvation!" "JESUS SAVES" is an awesome proclamation and in that FACT all of us can respond to GOD in obedience and "walk with your heads high." Not in pride but in amazement that GOD worked on our behalf!
So, here we go! Walking! Like former slaves out of bondage! With new attitudes, toward a new purpose! Walking with the ONE who says, "I will walk among you....". With this given state of reality and the promise that Jesus made us "I will never leave you or forsake you..." We can start our trek with confidence and joy, knowing that once we were without HIM in our sin as slaves but now we are "...no longer...slaves" but poeple who... HE says that HE "...will walk among ... and be your God, and you will be my people..."!
I am flabbergasted! Jesus you are awesome!
Simply Trey
This is to help me focus on the task ahead, so I have chosen some passages of Scripture that are helping me keep focused on the event and the task that is upcoming! There are two months and two days left, from today, when we will be heading out from our office building on Michigan Avenue, to begin walking up Hines Drive to initiate Trey's Trek.
Every day I walk and each mile that I cover in getting ready for this event... my body lets me know that there are a 100 reasons why this '56 year old man' should not be doing this 300 miles trek to anywhere!!! It's almost like sitting down to Thanksgiving Dinner at 'Gran' Ma's' and realizing that your 'your eyes are bigger than your stomach!' So staying focused is going to be vital to not only accomplishing the task but actually doing the event in September!
With that said, I have chosen some passages of Scripture that deal with "walking"... to think about..., to chew on mentally and to let settle down in my spirit so that my 'inner man' will be ready 'to tackle' this upcoming 300 mile trek! So here is what I have found so far...
Leviticus 26:12 says... "I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your heads high."
Now let me tell you how this encourages me...
First, I am excited when I read this... because the truth of what is here, is living and active! It's not just random words on a page! These are words from THE ALMIGHTY'S mouth and as such it gets my attention! I am so excited that I have been extended an invitation to be grafted into the vine of HIS people and as such, I have accpeted that invitation and received eternal life because of it. Thank you Jesus! OK...
HE says... "I will walk among you...." in response, I say...
LORD, this encourages me, in that... as an event, YOU walked with YOUR sons and daughters out of horrendous slavery, into a GOD enfused freedom that YOU YOURSELF orchestrated and walked with them and among them as they exited their positions and attitudes as slaves. If YOU did that then... and YOU are the same GOD now; I can be sure that YOU will walk with us as we head out from Dearborn to Mackinaw! My hope is that our attitudes and actions as 'freed folks' from slavery (sin) will fulfill YOUR expectations for who YOU set us free to be! And if YOU walked among them ... YOU will walk with us! We will keep the eyes of our hearts open for YOU along the way!
He also says..."I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt..." in response, I say... LORD, historically you stepped in and revealed YOURSELF to a whole family and YOUR actions on their behalf are stunning to me! If YOU are the same, yesterday, today and forever, then I choose to place my confidence in YOU... acknowledging YOU as my GOD, who is The LORD of the universe! From my personal experience, you brought me out of 'a slavery' that was as stark and as dark as what Israel experienced in Egypt. With a grateful heart, I live in that liberty that YOU provide and with a watchful eye, am careful to stay close to YOU! Remembering where I came from and the sin that I was in, I now... with a new resolve, walk away from that judgement that condemned me and I do it by YOUR grace! What an exodus! YOU are my deliverer!
He says again..."so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians..." in response, I say...
I read somewhere that HIS attitude about us is that "it is for freedom that I set you free..." Woooooooo! I also remember that we are to "Stand firm, then and do not let 'ourselves' (yourselves) be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Woow again! Man...I guess, like the Scripture says... "if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation..." if that is our reality, then we are set! But I know alot of folks who percieve their positioned in life, even as a new creation to be like a new toy that one would receive at Christmas... that that toy, even though it is new in the box, has no batteries in it! But that is not the case! God does not give and then frustrate us with the gift because it does not work! Our gift comes with power! It may not be in the box with the toy initially but 'The gift GIVER doesn't give to disappoint us! In reality, HE provides the batteries so that the toy will operate as it was designed! There is Power to operate our lives in HIS authority and that reality is a present situation that we actually find ourselves in. But the power to operate the toy must be sought, it must be asked for. We must look for it and in turn recieve the gift of His power (the batteries), open it and place the batteries in the appropriate place so that the toy will do it's thing! Then the power must be 'turned on'! In our position as HIS people who have been freed... we must live in HIS presence and operate as HIS community in the power that HE provides. This power, first of all, is to enable us, to not go back into slavery! It is to advance us toward HIS objectives as a part of HIS plan in conjunction with HIS people in this life HE has for us, where we now live. But slavery to whatever bound us before is not to be a part of that solution now! HE has set us free and going back to sin and becoming a slave again, is in no way a part of HIS purpose. Who wants to be a slave again to the same 'stuff ' we were freed from? YUCH! HIS reason for freeing us is that we would be free! "IT IS FOR FREEDOM...!" 'Alleluia!
He says one more thing..."I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your heads high." It is amazing to me that HE would have to remind the ones HE 'delivered' out of Egypt about this again! Were they not living in the middle of what HE was doing for them, right then? Just thinking back in what I know; Egypt, as one of the most powerful nations on Earth at that time was laid to waste, their economy was destroyed, their religious system was desolated, their gods were attacked and mocked and specifically shown as utter fakes. At least 225,000 soldiers along with the best military hardward of the day was wipped out in less than probably 5 to 10 miniutes of time and all of this happened before their very eyes! From my perspective it would be hard to forget all of this... But none the less, HE reminds them again! HE does it with words that are forceful, "I broke the bars of your yoke..." and he says it with no regard for the feelings of the Egyptians! Some would accuse GOD of being full of pride or heartless! I mean they were on the short end of that stick, weren't they? Doesn't GOD love the whole world? Of course HE does, but we are not aware of the centuries of pleading and wooing that HE engaged in with the Egyptians before HE judged them for their blatant idolotry and refusal to listen to HIM. There is a lesson in this for Nations today...(whole families of people- 'Ethnos') that refuse to "...Hear HIS voice...!" GOD is definately impartial in regards to HIS love for Mankind and HE states this in Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in any form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD (YHVH) your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of there fathers to the third and forth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." John, one of Jesus' closest disciples wrote, "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the work through Him." It is here where our freedom sits at the fulcrum of history and reality. Jesus is our turing point, our balance point, our freedom, our reality! He sets us free, He keeps us free, if we stay locked into Him. His very name actually means ..."YHVH is our Salvation!" "JESUS SAVES" is an awesome proclamation and in that FACT all of us can respond to GOD in obedience and "walk with your heads high." Not in pride but in amazement that GOD worked on our behalf!
So, here we go! Walking! Like former slaves out of bondage! With new attitudes, toward a new purpose! Walking with the ONE who says, "I will walk among you....". With this given state of reality and the promise that Jesus made us "I will never leave you or forsake you..." We can start our trek with confidence and joy, knowing that once we were without HIM in our sin as slaves but now we are "...no longer...slaves" but poeple who... HE says that HE "...will walk among ... and be your God, and you will be my people..."!
I am flabbergasted! Jesus you are awesome!
Simply Trey
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Getting in shape.... Day 4
{this post was written last year but not posted for some reason... I can't believe I did that!}
This morning I awoke about 6:15.
I Got up and fixed a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal. Then I repaired the rubber boots on my walking sticks. I found an old busted inner tube from a bike tire the day before that someone had discarded and it really came in handy because I took some duct tape (a real "Red Green" trick) and covered the rubber boots on my walking sticks. Both boots on the sticks were worn out over the last 25 miles of walking! I guess I "arta-not" strike the groud so hard! Hopping those fences like a pole volter probably didn't help either. LOL! Just kiddin'! But the extra rubber and duct tape seems to works really good!
Then I loaded up my Camelbak 'water trough,' slung it on my back and headed out right at 8:00Am.
I went this AM to Wyoming from the house and then headed South toward Ford Road. There like the day before, I turned right and unlike yesterday... I walked on the North side of the road in front of Fordson High School where all my kids graduated from. It's an awesome structure!
When I got down to Mercury Drive I crossed over and walked along the grass until I crossed the Southfield Freeway bridge and walked on over to Evergreen.
But before I reached Evergreen just across from the Red Robin Restaurant ("they got gud hambuggers") a man named "Dale Baker" was crossing the street. I greeted him and he asked me if I was having a good day. I said 'yah' and said that "I am walking to Mackinaw!" He responded... why are you doing that...? Are you protesting something? I said 'no!' I told him that that I was a pastor here in Dearborn and the we were in the process of building... over on MI Ave in the old Harry Miller Flowers shop and that I was walking to Mackinaw to raise funds to help pay for the project! He looked amazed! Then he pulled out his wallet and gave me a dollar! Wow...This encouraged me! Thanks Dale!... every little bit helps!
Then I crossed over Evergreen and keep on going toward Golfview when near the "Society of Engineers" along the fense that borders the roadway was a snake that was maybe 18" long. I coldn't tell what kind it was and I could not see it's head to see if it was poisonous. It startled me at first because it was not moving at all. I think that his head was through the chain link on the other side of the fence. So I took one of my walking sticks and poked at it a couple of times and it definately came alive! That head came back through the fence and struck at me twice with his mouth wide open! (it was white as cotton too in there!) At that point, the front part of the snake was cocked back again, ready to strike. I took out my phone at that point and tried to get a photo but after taking the photo the picture scrambled. It did not turn out but I was not going to hang around and challenge him again. He was upset at this point! I think that he was taking a nap!!! So I went on down the road, 'looking for snakes,' as I walked...imagine that!.
SO in just about 5 minutes I turned South on to Golfview and met some playful squirels. When I got to Golfview and Military I turned left and headed toward MI Ave where I turned left and headed back to the office. Oh, I forgot... I saw "President" Jeff Davis at the church there on the corner of Golfview and Outer Drive. He was loading up some stuff and I stopped and visited with him for about 5 minutes. He even let me load up on water again!
So when I got to the library on Michigan Avenue across from the Mongolian BB, I sat down on the bench that was there and took my shoes off because the toes on my right foot seemed to start rubing together working on a blister... so I let me feet cool off a bit, while I checked my e-mails. (I didn't like 'um the color they were!)
From there I walked back to the Office on the North side of the street at a good steady pace and got back to the property right at 12:30. I had started out at 8:00 this morning so it took me 4 and a half hours to make this almost 12 mile trek.
My endurance is rising! About the last mile my left knee began to hurt for some reason. So tomorrow the rest will do me good!
Just thought ya'll would like to know!
Simply Trey!
p.s. the song by Rich Mullins
"GOD you are my God"
and I will every praise you x2
I will seek you in the morning
I will learn to walk in your ways
And step by step, you'll lead me
And I will follow you all of my days...
was just flooding through my mind as I was walking... so I just sang it out, over and over again and meditated on the words. I think that it is a good 'walking song'!!!
Simply Trey!
This morning I awoke about 6:15.
I Got up and fixed a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal. Then I repaired the rubber boots on my walking sticks. I found an old busted inner tube from a bike tire the day before that someone had discarded and it really came in handy because I took some duct tape (a real "Red Green" trick) and covered the rubber boots on my walking sticks. Both boots on the sticks were worn out over the last 25 miles of walking! I guess I "arta-not" strike the groud so hard! Hopping those fences like a pole volter probably didn't help either. LOL! Just kiddin'! But the extra rubber and duct tape seems to works really good!
Then I loaded up my Camelbak 'water trough,' slung it on my back and headed out right at 8:00Am.
I went this AM to Wyoming from the house and then headed South toward Ford Road. There like the day before, I turned right and unlike yesterday... I walked on the North side of the road in front of Fordson High School where all my kids graduated from. It's an awesome structure!
When I got down to Mercury Drive I crossed over and walked along the grass until I crossed the Southfield Freeway bridge and walked on over to Evergreen.
But before I reached Evergreen just across from the Red Robin Restaurant ("they got gud hambuggers") a man named "Dale Baker" was crossing the street. I greeted him and he asked me if I was having a good day. I said 'yah' and said that "I am walking to Mackinaw!" He responded... why are you doing that...? Are you protesting something? I said 'no!' I told him that that I was a pastor here in Dearborn and the we were in the process of building... over on MI Ave in the old Harry Miller Flowers shop and that I was walking to Mackinaw to raise funds to help pay for the project! He looked amazed! Then he pulled out his wallet and gave me a dollar! Wow...This encouraged me! Thanks Dale!... every little bit helps!
Then I crossed over Evergreen and keep on going toward Golfview when near the "Society of Engineers" along the fense that borders the roadway was a snake that was maybe 18" long. I coldn't tell what kind it was and I could not see it's head to see if it was poisonous. It startled me at first because it was not moving at all. I think that his head was through the chain link on the other side of the fence. So I took one of my walking sticks and poked at it a couple of times and it definately came alive! That head came back through the fence and struck at me twice with his mouth wide open! (it was white as cotton too in there!) At that point, the front part of the snake was cocked back again, ready to strike. I took out my phone at that point and tried to get a photo but after taking the photo the picture scrambled. It did not turn out but I was not going to hang around and challenge him again. He was upset at this point! I think that he was taking a nap!!! So I went on down the road, 'looking for snakes,' as I walked...imagine that!.
SO in just about 5 minutes I turned South on to Golfview and met some playful squirels. When I got to Golfview and Military I turned left and headed toward MI Ave where I turned left and headed back to the office. Oh, I forgot... I saw "President" Jeff Davis at the church there on the corner of Golfview and Outer Drive. He was loading up some stuff and I stopped and visited with him for about 5 minutes. He even let me load up on water again!
So when I got to the library on Michigan Avenue across from the Mongolian BB, I sat down on the bench that was there and took my shoes off because the toes on my right foot seemed to start rubing together working on a blister... so I let me feet cool off a bit, while I checked my e-mails. (I didn't like 'um the color they were!)
From there I walked back to the Office on the North side of the street at a good steady pace and got back to the property right at 12:30. I had started out at 8:00 this morning so it took me 4 and a half hours to make this almost 12 mile trek.
My endurance is rising! About the last mile my left knee began to hurt for some reason. So tomorrow the rest will do me good!
Just thought ya'll would like to know!
Simply Trey!
p.s. the song by Rich Mullins
"GOD you are my God"
and I will every praise you x2
I will seek you in the morning
I will learn to walk in your ways
And step by step, you'll lead me
And I will follow you all of my days...
was just flooding through my mind as I was walking... so I just sang it out, over and over again and meditated on the words. I think that it is a good 'walking song'!!!
Simply Trey!
Friday, July 1, 2011
Getting in Shape!... Day 3
Today I started out from the House on my walk 'to get in shape' for the trek to Mackinaw, MI...As I turned onto Ford Road from Wyoming walking South, I tromped through the tall grass (I don't know why there is no sidewalk there)... and came back out on the side walk and there was a baggage ticket from "SHEPLERS" which is one of the Island Ferrys to Mackinaw Island, MI from Mackinaw City. The ticket even had an elastic band on it that you loop around the handles of bags. Where it lists the "NAME:_______" the tag in handwritten form says... "MALEK" which is Arabic! On the back of the tag "Hart's Haven" is checked. It must be a house on the Island where you can lodge overnight.
Now for some of you, this may seem really insignificant but for me it is an encouragement! I am getting in shape to walk to Mackinaw... to help raise resources to build our church in E. Dearborn which is 97% Arabic and this tag is for "Shepler's" which is located in Mackinaw! Could it be a sign of some sort? It is interesting to think about!
Now for some of you, this may seem really insignificant but for me it is an encouragement! I am getting in shape to walk to Mackinaw... to help raise resources to build our church in E. Dearborn which is 97% Arabic and this tag is for "Shepler's" which is located in Mackinaw! Could it be a sign of some sort? It is interesting to think about!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Getting in Shape to walk to Mackinaw!!!
Today I left the house and headed toward the office on foot (both feet really!)
It took me about an hour and a quarter to get there starting out on Tireman Avenue and walking to Greenfield then going South to Michigan Ave. to the Office. I rested for a bout 20 minutes and then started back toward the house.
I walked on Michigan until I got to Miller and took Miller Road up to Tireman Avenue where I turned right and headed back home.
It too me right at an hour to walk home from the office. It was at a good brisk pace on both legs of the route! I used the walking sticks that Vesa and Ashleigh purchased for me. They really seem to help!
After getting home I logged my trip on 'Map my Walk' It was a 7.6 miles trek, I think... or somewhere around there.
It has been over a week since I last walked. Last week at the lake, I came down hard on a rock with my right arch and bruised it...That is the first time that has happened. So this was the first day back walking... 'on the training trail!'
Folks seems to be really friendly today! Many said... "Hello, how are you...?" I would respond "Well!" and then say, "I am walking to Mackinaw!" Most of them just 'lit up!' It was fun! It would take my mind off the task long enough so I did not get mentally tired!
Also I used a Camel back water pouch that my son Paul bought for me! It is a smaller back pack with a water bladder in one compartment that is attached to a flexible pipe that comes around the pack to the front. At the end of the pipe is a valve that I can just put in my mouth and drink when I get thirsty. When I would start feeling a bit dry in my mouth of or my legs would ache a bit, I would take three strong swiggs and could immediately feel the difference!
Also I noticed the last couple of miles that my legs and hips were feeling the walk. So I would step over onto the grass and walk for a bit there and the pressure would go away!
I am looking forward to this trip! Tomorrow I hope to stretch this out a bit longer!
So that is all for today!
Simply Trey!
It took me about an hour and a quarter to get there starting out on Tireman Avenue and walking to Greenfield then going South to Michigan Ave. to the Office. I rested for a bout 20 minutes and then started back toward the house.
I walked on Michigan until I got to Miller and took Miller Road up to Tireman Avenue where I turned right and headed back home.
It too me right at an hour to walk home from the office. It was at a good brisk pace on both legs of the route! I used the walking sticks that Vesa and Ashleigh purchased for me. They really seem to help!
After getting home I logged my trip on 'Map my Walk' It was a 7.6 miles trek, I think... or somewhere around there.
It has been over a week since I last walked. Last week at the lake, I came down hard on a rock with my right arch and bruised it...That is the first time that has happened. So this was the first day back walking... 'on the training trail!'
Folks seems to be really friendly today! Many said... "Hello, how are you...?" I would respond "Well!" and then say, "I am walking to Mackinaw!" Most of them just 'lit up!' It was fun! It would take my mind off the task long enough so I did not get mentally tired!
Also I used a Camel back water pouch that my son Paul bought for me! It is a smaller back pack with a water bladder in one compartment that is attached to a flexible pipe that comes around the pack to the front. At the end of the pipe is a valve that I can just put in my mouth and drink when I get thirsty. When I would start feeling a bit dry in my mouth of or my legs would ache a bit, I would take three strong swiggs and could immediately feel the difference!
Also I noticed the last couple of miles that my legs and hips were feeling the walk. So I would step over onto the grass and walk for a bit there and the pressure would go away!
I am looking forward to this trip! Tomorrow I hope to stretch this out a bit longer!
So that is all for today!
Simply Trey!
Monday, June 27, 2011
A New Idea from those who want to help with 'Trey's Trek!'
Today, as I was corresponding with some of our close friends from out of State, they expressed a deep desire to come and make this trek with us! But because of 'this or that', they would not be able to come! So two different couples in the State of NC in different cities, suggested that they will get pledges from folks in their area and do the walk near to where they live! This would take place the same time that we are walking to Mackinaw from Dearborn here in Michigan.
Wow! What an attitude! What willingness to help! What initiative! What encouragment for us here in Michigan! Thank you Jesus!
One other person who lives in Alabama who went to High School with me said ... because of a knee injury, she would not be able to do this. So in the flow of the conversation I suggested that she take the change that ended up in her pocket at the end of each day, from now until September and put it in a jar. Then when September comes around, 'give' that change toward the project... She said "that would work!" So another idea was born! The Lord will provide!
Wow! What an attitude! What willingness to help! What initiative! What encouragment for us here in Michigan! Thank you Jesus!
One other person who lives in Alabama who went to High School with me said ... because of a knee injury, she would not be able to do this. So in the flow of the conversation I suggested that she take the change that ended up in her pocket at the end of each day, from now until September and put it in a jar. Then when September comes around, 'give' that change toward the project... She said "that would work!" So another idea was born! The Lord will provide!
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