You'll Come

You’ll Come

Hillsong

"I have decided, I have resolved, to wait upon You Lord

My Rock and Redeemer, Shield and Reward, I wait upon You Lord

As surely as the sun will rise, You’ll come to us,

As certain as the dawn appears, You’ll come

Let Your glory fall as You respond to us

Spirit, reign!  Flood into our thirsty hearts again!  You’ll come!

We are not shaken, we are not moved,

We wait upon You Lord

Our Mighty Deliverer, triumphed and true,

We wait upon You Lord

As certain as the sun will rise, You’ll come to us,

As certain as Your Word endures, You’ll come. 

Chains be broken!  Lives be healed!  Eyes be opened, Christ is revealed!"

God, I wait for You, and I know that You are coming back for Your people.  You have promised it, and we wait eagerly to be united with You!  You are my Rock.  I stand upon You, my firm foundation.  You are my redeemer.  You have saved me!  You are my Shield.  You protect me.  You guard me.  You shield me from my adversaries.  You are my Reward.  Everything that this world has to offer is nothing in comparison with You.  You are the only reward worth sacrificing for. 

With as much confidence that I have that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, I know for certain that You will come to this earth for Your people. 

Be glorified as You hear me and respond to me.  Spirit inside me, REIGN!  Guide my life!  My heart is thirsty for You.  Flood into me.  Spirit, overflow out of me! 

Though times may be hard, I will not be shaken.  I will not be moved.  I will stand my ground in the good fight for my King!  With Your help, Father, I will stand firm in my faith!  I wait upon You, my Mighty Deliverer.  You deliver me from my enemies.  You are the only One who can! 

Let the chains in my life be broken!  Any bondage that I hold myself in, provide me with freedom, God!  I love You, Amen.

The Stand

"You stood before creation

Eternity in Your hands

You spoke the earth into motion

My soul now to stand

You stood before my failure

Carried the cross for my shame

My sin weighed upon Your shoulders

My soul now to stand

So what can I say?

What can I do?

But offer this heart, O God, completely to You?!

So I’ll walk upon salvation!

Your Spirit alive in me!

This life to declare Your promise,

My soul now to stand

So I’ll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned,

In awe of the One who gave it all,

I’l stand, my soul, Lord, to You surrendered,

All I am is Yours!"

Dear God,

You are all that matters.  Nothing in this temporary world matters, at all!  You alone, Father, are all that I need.  You are more than enough for me!  You are so powerful, You SPOKE the earth into motion!  You spoke the words, and it was so!  Lord, don’t let me doubt You power, You can do all things!  Nothing can hold You back! 

You carried the cross for ME.  My sin weighed upon Your perfect shoulders, Jesus.  My choices, thoughts, actions, they hurt You.  They caused You pain.  You knew every detail of my life, what I would do, how I would betray You.  Yet You loved me, You died on a cross to pay the penalty for my sin.  You bore the wrath of God!  My soul now stands in awe of You, Jesus! 

There is nothing I could ever do to repay You.  Here I am, a gracious acceptor of the gift You offer.  All I can do in return is give this life I have completely to You!  I am Yours. Use me as You see fit.  Use me for Your kingdom, for Your glory, to spread the good news of Jesus Christ!    Here I am, God, with arms high and heart abandoned!  I am in awe of You, Father.  I am in awe of Your love, Your holiness, Your willingness to have Your Son slaughtered in order to save me.  I have nothing to offer in relation to who You are.  But what I have, what You have given me, here it is, God.  Take all of me.  Every last part.  I am fully surrendered!    I am here, God, a warrior princess that is madly in love with You! 

(lyrics by Hillsong United- The Stand)

Saul and Jonathan: A Father Unlike His Son

Ok, I got this from a study about David, by Beth Moore, and it’s so amazing I just have to share! The study is in 1 Samuel, so here’s the really brief background:  Saul is the reigning king of Israel, who the people chose.  His name literally means “asked for.”  (God’s pretty funny… the people ask for a king, and God’s like, ok you ask for one, I’ll give you ‘Asked For’ …yeah He’s hilarious…)  Saul’s position as king exceeds his passion for God (bad news bears).  He has a son, Jonathan, who is a man of God. 

1 Samuel 14:1-23… the relationship between Jonathan and his armor bearer:

Jonathan’s armor bearer trusts in him completely.  He follows him and is with him “heart and soul” (verse 7).  He follows his instructions obediently.

In 1 Sam 14:6, we learn that NOTHING can hinder the Lord!  He can win a battle whether He has many warriors, or only a few.  There is NO limit to His power!

Ok, let’s look at Jonathan a little bit.  He makes two profound statements in verse 6:

1.     PERHAPS the Lord will act on our behalf.

2.     NOTHING can hinder the Lord from saving

Jonathan knew the Lord could save, no matter who or how many were fighting in the battle.  He knew that if God chose to save, nothing could hinder Him.  His faith in God’s strength and determination was solid: God could do anything.  His only question was whether or not God would choose to do it through them that day.  He knew God could do it, he didn’t know if God would do it.  Whether or not He did, Jonathan understood God’s response to be based on sovereignty, not weakness.  This was attitude even when he faced the possibility of death (fighting the Philistines).

(Oh helloooooo secret crush on Jonathan- don’t tell)

Ok, here’s another piece of scripture that has people with the same attitude.  Read Daniel 3:1-18, and think about how the attitude of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was similar to Jonathan’s attitude.

Pretty cool stuff, huh?!

Ok, I promise this part is really cool.  Let’s look at Jonathan’s armor bearer.  Hopefully, you noticed the armor bearer’s commitment to Jonathan’s authority, and constant obedience to Jonathan’s commands.  Now let’s compare the armor bearer to a Christian (howl yes!)

Look at Eph 6:10-13.  God commands us to put on the FULL ARMOR OF God, so that we can take our stand against the Devil’s schemes.  We are God’s present armor bearers!  We’re not just to carry armor, we’re to put it on. 

In Eph 6:12, the word “struggle” is used.  It comes from the Greek word ‘pale,’ which means “a wrestling, struggle, or hand-to-hand combat.”  It described the wrestling of athletes and the hand-to-hand combat of soldiers.  Our “struggle” against our enemy is a very personal battle.  ‘Pale’ does not describe a corporate battle.  It describes a struggle that involves only ourselves, the One whose armor we bear, and our enemy. 

Here are some applications that help us in our battle:

                  -the armor bearer listened carefully to Jonathan’s instructions. To be victorious, we must also listen carefully to the instructions of the One whose armor we bear

                  -Jonathan’s armor bearer is described as being with his master “heart and soul” (v. 7)

                                    àHow often would you describe yourself as being with God “heart and soul?”

Sooooo……. The armor bearer followed behind Jonathan.  His master led him into battle.  He did not choose the battle.  Jonathan made sure he went ahead of the armor bearer so that he could take away the blows of the enemy.  When we received Christ as Savior, we enlisted in an army we weren’t acutely aware existed.  We would avoid our spiritual battles if we could, but our Master is always careful to lead the way (just like Jonathan led the armor bearer).  We must always “climb up” after Him.  1 Sam 14:13 says, “The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer followed and killed behind him.”  Our enemy will fall before our God.  We are only deadly to the enemy when we go behind Him.

Well, I hope that you got something out of that.. If not, ohh shooottt!

Trust in Him, and put on the full armor of God today!  

Psalm 19

Psalm 19 

-Psalm 19 is a song hailing the revelation of God:

            1.through nature

            2. through His Word

            3. to man’s innermost self

-1. Through Nature: 

-“heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands”

                        -His creation DECLARES His glory!

            -Rom 1:20 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse”

            -Heb 1:3  “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.  After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”

2. Through His Word

            -v. 7-9 “His law, statutes, precepts, commands”

            -what the Sun is to the earth, is what the word of God is to us…. It brings us warmth and light in the morning, and rest and peace at night… it sustains us, it gives us life…

3.  To man’s innermost self

            -v. 14 “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my HEART be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer”

à We should absolutely LOVE God’s Word

           

Ps 19:13 “Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.”

            -willful sins are either on purpose or driven by pride

            -“blamelessness” is walking in freedom from willful sin

            -addictions are “dominion sin,” they have power to rule over us

                        -Ps 119:133 “let no sin rule over me…”

            -“they may not rule over me”

-rule comes from the Hebrew term masal, which means “to rule, reign, govern, have dominion, manage”

            -Ps 139:1-3 “You have searched me and You know me…”

-God knows our innermost secrets, the depths of our hearts, we can’t hide anything from Him, we must repent

-2 Thess 2:7  our deep secrets, the Enemy loves that, he is working all over that darkness, our little secrets that we’re not willing to confess provide the Enemy with so much to work with!

-James 5:16 “confess your sins to each other and pray for each other…” 

            -this shows the importance of accountability in our lives… we’re supposed to confess sin to fellow believers, so that they can be praying for us, and so that they can see when we might be falling into sin by knowing what we tend to struggle with… God made us to be reliant on other people, we’re supposed to help each other…

-“Consider meditation as the musical soliloquy sung in our hearts”

            -OK, this part is really cool!  Music is so powerful.  We get songs stuck in our heads.  We memorize lyrics really easily.  You probably know thousands of song lyrics without every trying to memorize them.  Music empowers us to feel different emotions.  I have different playlists that I choose, and they make me feel different ways.  Certain songs make me happy, sad, pumped up, excited, etc…

            -Our thoughts, the “meditation of our hearts,” are like God’s playlists.  It’s what He listens to!  When we are living lives of worship to Him, it’s like we’re singing hymns to Him.  He hears them!  This isn’t just in musical worship.  Our LIVES are worship.  If I’m playing in a soccer game, and see the beauty of God in the families around me, or the way my teammates encourage one another, the meditation of my heart can by a beautiful hymn that God is listening to!  But when we are scorning Him through our thoughts and motives, He has to listen to that too.  When I curse at the referee in my head when I think he makes an unfair call, yep- God has to listen to that too. 

            à  Let our lives play beautiful music for the ears of our loving God!

(Notes taken from a study on David, by Beth Moore)

Living in Freedom

Living in Freedom

Rom 6:6-7

Gal 4:9

Col 2:20

Col 1:13

Gal 5:1

I am a prisoner, sitting in a dungeon with shackles on my wrists and ankles.  I am striving to follow the world, to look just right, act just right; I am striving for perfection.  I wallow in my cell.  I hear of the name of some “Jesus,” but I am so consumed by my constant striving for happiness that I pay no attention to anything that doesn’t bring me instant gratification.  One day, I look out the window from the dungeon, and see a man. Instantly, I know that He is the one I have heard about. He is this so called “Jesus.”  He is walking my direction, bruised and beaten, His body covered in striped scars.  I hear the heavy door being pulled open as He enters the dungeon.  I hear His footsteps on the creaking stairs, and then suddenly I see Him.  He looks worse in person than from the window.  One of His eyes is swollen shut; bruises and wounds cover His flesh completely.  Then, the softest of sounds comes from His mouth, as He says to me, “Lyndsey, I am setting you free from your sin, my beautiful child.  I have paid the price, I have paid it in full!  You can live in freedom now! Come! Come with me!”  He smiles, revealing a broken tooth from behind His lip.  His face radiates with delight as He sets me free, and He breaks the chains that hold me down with ease.  The burden is lifted, and the shackles fall to the ground, defeated!  He picks me up, sets me gently on my feet, grabs me by the hand, and leads me out of the gloomy dungeon and into the beautiful outdoors.  He kisses me on the forehead, and I am overwhelmed with thankfulness!  I walk outside and dance about in freedom. 

I am in love with this Man who has set me free, and I ordain Him my Lord and Savior without hesitation!  The thought of ever turning my back on Him is absolute nonsense.  To this One who has freed me, I owe everything! 

But, after some time, I start thinking about my little dungeon again, and wonder how it’s doing.  I start to just wonder how the chains are doing, if they’ve moved or are laying just how I left them?  I decide to go back for a little visit.  I check to make sure Jesus isn’t near me; I don’t want Him to know I’m going for this little visit.  I glance back over my shoulder, and open the heavy door.  I creep down the stairs, and the familiar smell brings back memories of my time there.  I find the broken shackles, still lying there just as I left them.  One thought leads to the next, and after some time, I start to miss the shackles.  I roll around in them, and tangle myself up in the broken chains.  Something inside me knows that I shouldn’t, but I continue anyway, writhing about in my rebellion with a small smirk on my face.

Then, from the corner of my eye, I see a figure outside the window.  It is Jesus, who has watched the whole scenario.  He looks at me- one eye swollen shut- with a sad look on His face.  “Lyndsey, I have freed you, my child! Come out and live in freedom!” He begs. 

I notice tears building in His eyes.  I can’t stand to look at His grieving face, so I look down at the broken chains on top of me, and sulk in self-pity.  I taste the saltiness of a single tear that streams down my cheek and hits my mouth.  I can hear the voice of Satan, a voice filled with delight over my self-entanglement.  “You really are pretty tangled,” he tells me, and I can picture his smile at the thought of my misery.  “If Jesus really loved you, He’d come rescue you now, wouldn’t he?” he whispers with a mocking voice.  For a few moments, I sit in silence.  Then, the memory of my Savior hits me, the way He called me by name, picked me up to my feet and guided me outdoors to freedom. 

“He already has rescued me!” I shout with confidence.  I stand up, realizing that I can do so with ease, and the chains fall to the ground, for they have already been broken.  I run up the stairs, and Jesus is waiting for me, holding the heavy door wide open.  His smile returns as I step back into His freedom.  He wipes the tear from my face, and grabs my hand.  We dance in freedom once again, and I experience pure, indescribable joy. 

I reflect on the fact that He shouldn’t welcome me back with open arms after I have turned my back on Him and mocked the freedom He provides.  But His love for me is a Love unlike anything I have ever experienced.  It is unconditional.  For the remainder of my days, I wake up with the rising sun in sheer amazement of this Unconditional Love.

God Does Whatever Pleases Him

This is a quote from Crazy Love, by Francis Chan:

Psalm 115:3 says, “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.”  Yet, we keep on questioning Him.  We ask, “Why did You make me with this body instead of that one?” “Why are so many people dying of starvation?” “Why are there so many planets with nothing living on them?” “Why is my family so messed up?” “Why don’t You make Yourself more obvious to the people who need You?”  The answer to each of these questions is simply this:  because He’s God. He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving. As much as we want God to explain Himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us. 

Daniel 4:35 “All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing, He does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of earth. NO one can hold back his hand or say to him: ‘What have you done?’” 

Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you?

Biblical Description of Heaven

What does heaven look like?  We tend to picture it as a place where we bounce around on clouds all day long, with huge smiles on our faces.  But what does the Bible say about heaven?

Revelation 4:

John describes God as sitting on a throne with two gems, jasper and carnelian. The area around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald.  God resembles radiant jewels more than flesh and blood.  John describes flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder coming from God’s throne.  Before the throne are seven blazing torches and a sea of glass that looks like crystal.  Surrounding the throne are 24 elders, dressed in white and wearing golden crowns.   They cast their gold crowns before God, and say, “You are worthy, Our Lord and God, to receive gloy and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”  There are four beings with 6 wings each.  These beings have eyes all over their bodies and their wings.  One has the face of a lion, one of an ox, one of a man, and one of an eagle.  They never stop saying, day and night, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come!” 

Isaiah 6:

Isaiah sees a vision of the Lord seated on a throne.  The bottom of God’s robe fills the whole temple.  Seraphim are above Him.  Each seraphim has 6 wings, and they call out to each other saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty, the whole earth is full of his glory!”  The foundations shook and smoke filled the house. 

After encountering this vision, Isaiah’s response is this:  “Woe is me… I am ruined!  For I am a man of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”  Then, one of the seraphim brings Isaiah a piece of burning coal that had been smoldering on the altar.  The creature touches Isaiah’s mouth with the hot coal and tells him that his guilt is taken away. 

How should we respond to the reality of the holiness and magnitude of God?!  Woe is ME!  

The Term "Christian"

Quote by Chris Tomlin:

“Isn’t it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn’t name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) Christians by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling question for sure.”

Absolutely love this quote... very challenging for sure!

A quick look at how diverse and creative God is...

Looking up at the skies, seeing the stars, and knowing there is so much more out there.  He created millions of galaxies, many of which have been discovered only in the past few years, thanks to the Hubble telescope.  They’ve been in the universe for thousands of years without humans even knowing about them. Why would God create more than 350,000,000,000 galaxies that generations of people never saw or even knew existed? Do you think maybe it was to make us say, “Wow, God is so unfathomably big?” Or perhaps God wanted us to see these pictures so that our response would be, “Who do I think I am?” 

A caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head.  The average elm tree has approximately 6 million leaves on it. Your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet.  There are hundreds of different kinds of bananas.  There are 3,000 different species of trees within one square mile in the Amazon jungle. There are so many different kinds of laughter, different sounds of laughs: wheezes, snorts, silent, loud, obnoxious. Plants defy gravity by drawing water upward from the ground into their stems and veins.  This list could go on and on.  

Whatever God’s reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it is His glory. God’s art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

We are called to worship Him.  His art, His handiwork, and His creation all echo the truth that He is glorious. There is no other like Him.   He is the King of Kings, the Beginning and the End, the One who was and is and is to come.  How do we respond to God’s magnitude, in a world that is bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him?  God will not be tolerated.  He instructs us to worship and fear Him.  

(I got all of these notes from a book called Crazy Love, by Francis Chan)

Justifying Sin through Worry and Stress

Phil 4:4 says, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say: Rejoice!”

When I am consumed by my problems, stressed out about my life, my family, and my job- I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice. In other words, that I have a “right” to disobey God because of the magnitude of my responsibilities. 

WORRY implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives. 

STRESS says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control. 

Basically, these two behaviors communicate that it’s okay to sin and not trust God because the stuff in my life is somehow exceptional. Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.  They declare our tendency to forget that we’ve been forgiven, that our lives here are brief, that we are headed to a place where we won’t be lonely, afraid, or hurt ever again, and in the context of God’s strength, our problems are small.  Why are we so quick to forget God?  Who do we think we are?

2 Samuel 9

2 Samuel 9:1-13

God uses David to show His own heart.  The Old Testament is filled with portraits capturing sudden snapshots of Christ.  God sometimes used Old Testament figures like Isaac, Moses, and David, to say, “My Son is like this.” 

Ok, so what’s going on in David’s life?  He is the reigning king, and is living in His palace just as God promised He would.  He is done with all of that crazy running from Saul for his life and living in caves stuff, and his life is settled down and comfortable.  He is going through a time when he is intimate with God. 

Jonathan was Saul’s son, and was David’s best friend.  Jonathan has died, and David is lonely without him.  He asks if there is anyone left in Saul’s family who he can show kindness to, in order to show God’s kindness.  He is told about Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth, who is alive, but is crippled in both feet.   It’s as if the servant was telling David that he was crippled in both feet because he thought that would disqualify him from anything the king sought. 

à Read 2 Sam 9:1-13

David wants to show kindness to Mephibosheth by restoring Saul’s land and allowing him to eat at his table.

It’s not Mephibosheth who seeks David, but David who seeks Mephibosheth.  David was the king.  He had everything.  But he wanted someone to show God’s kindness.  In the same way, God is always the initiator, always looking for someone who will receive His loving kindness!

            àLuke 19:10  “The Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost…”

            àJohn 15:16  “You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit”

            à1 John 4:19  “We love because He first loved us…”

David shows the way that God is completely accepting of us as we are:

            David did not hesitate when he was told of Mephibosheth’s handicap.  In the Old Testament, people considered physical handicap shameful, but David summoned him exactly as he was.  How reflective of God’s heart! Many wait until they can get their act together before they approach God.  If only they could understand, God calls them just the way they are- then empowers them to get their act together.

                        à  Matt 9:12 Jesus came to minister to the broken and the hurting

 Mephibosheth comes to David’s palace, feeling unworthy.  He calls himself a “dead dog” (v. 8).  The crippled man enters David’s splendid palace, and bowed down to pay David honor when he saw him.  With crippled legs, he bowed before the king, and bowed before him.  Can you imagine the difficulty for a handicapped man to get down on his knees, press his forehead to the floor(as was the custom), then rise up? 

Surely everyone who has ever accepted Christ as Savior has felt unworthy and humiliated, like Mophibosheth, before our King.  He have surely crept before Him, crippled from the fall of sin, overcome by our unworthiness against the backdrop of His Majesty’s brilliance. 

As Mophibosheth comes to David, he exclaims, “Mephibosheth!”  He knew him by name, just as Christ knows us (John 10:3).  Then, David is paralleled to Christ by his next words: “Don’t be afraid.”    How often has Christ said those words:

            à to the Twelve as He sent them out “Don’t be afraid!” (Matt 10:31)

            à to a bunch of scaredy-cats in a storm “Don’t be afraid!” (Matt 14:27)

            à To the three overcome by His glory “Don’t be afraid!” (Matt 17:7)

            àto the father of a dying child “Don’t be afraid!” (Mark 5:36)

The next parallel of David and Christ is in his delight for restoration.  David couldn’t wait to restore Mophibosheth, all the land that belonged to his grandfather (v. 7) The king could hardly wait to see Mephibosheth’s shame removed and his life restored! 

            à  The name Mophibosheth actually means “shame destroyer”

            -this is such a portrait of Christ, who destroys our shame!  

A final parallel between David and God is His desire to make Mephibosheth a son.  Mephibosheth came stooped as a servant before the king.  The king came to make him a son.  He was family- invited to sit at the king’s table to partake of his fellowship as one of his own.  We are like Mephibosheth! 

            à 1 John 3:1  How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!

           

We won’t learn to walk with God on healthy feet if we don’t experience sitting at His table as a cripple.  Our emotional and spiritual healing has come from approaching God in our handicapped state and believing we are His children and are worthy of His love! 

Psalm 40:2 “He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a Rock and gave me a firm place to stand.” 

Isn’t Old Testament awesome?!   Sending all my love!

Austria Stories to Come

Hellooooo friends!  As many of you know, I will be leaving for Austria on February 1st, which is just a few short weeks away.  It's kind of crazy, and definitely hasn't quite hit me yet.  This will be the blog that I will be using to keep everyone updated on what I am doing and learning through my European adventures.  For now, I am working on getting my visa.  As I try to get the last few documents together and send it in, please join me in praying that the visa gets approved and returned to me in time for me to leave!  It has been a very stressful process!  Can't believe how quickly the fall semester went by; I already miss all of my friends at ASU.  I have a feeling the spring semester will go by just as quickly, and soon it'll be the middle of July and I'll be on a flight back to the States.  Time for a 10 mile run with Pup Pup, I'm hoping to wear him out.  Well, gotta run! (pun intended)....     byeeeee