Which Olympic sports?

What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?

Wow this is a very hard question. To make it easier for me can I just say all of them! Being a sports fan I love most sports. I especially love the Olympics – both the Sumer and Winter Olympics.

In the Summer Olympics I love Athletics and the Cycling. In the Winter Olympics I love the Ice Hockey and the Short Track Speed Skating.

In saying this though, these are the sports I did as a child and some as an adult. As a child I did Little Athletics and as a teen I played Ice Hockey and did Speed Skating.

As an adult I took up cycling. For most of my adult life I have done some sort of cycling. Some times it was on my road bike, sometimes on my mountain bike, and sometimes on my indoor trainer.

If you really pushed to make a choice for just one sport at each Olympics. It would be athletics at the Summer Olympics and Ice Hockey at the Winter Olympics.

Who would I like to be?

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

The person I would like to be for a day has passed away now, but if I could choose it would be Billy Graham at one of his crusades.

I would love to know what it felt like to look out over huge crowds and see people streaming to the front to receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

In the image above from 1973, there was 1.1 million people present in Soul, South Korea. Imagine preaching to 1.1 million people and tens of thousands receiving Christ. It would be truly amazing.

Before I finish I want to end with one of his most famous quotes.

Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

My favourite car?

What is your all time favorite automobile?

My favourite all time car that I owned is my 1973 Holden HQ Monaro. I had that when I first got my licence. It had a huge V8 engine and quite a few other performance mods as my friends and I would race at the drags.

My favourite all time is the Corvette Stingray pictured above. A person who was driving through our town stopped for a break. I got talking to him and he asked if I wanted a photo in it. I jumped at the chance. It had a 454 Chev motor and it sounded amazing with the pipes on the side.

If I had to choose between one of them above it would be very hard. My sentimental side would say my Monaro, but my rev head side would say the Corvette.

Making prayer beads

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

In the last year or so I have started making prayer beads. In the examples above I have learned to make three types.

  1. The Anglican or Christian Rosary has 33 beads. One this you can prayer the Jesus prayer or the Come Lord Jesus prayer. It has an Invitatory bead, four Cruciform beads and 28 smaller weeks beads.
  2. The one decade rosary has 11 beads – an Our Father bead and 10 Hail Mary’s. This is small enough to be easily carried in your pocket.
  3. The traditional Rosary is the longer one that is used by Catholics to pray the Marian Rosary or the Divine Mercy.

I have mainly making them for my own enjoyment and to learn a new skill. I have given away quite a few of them as gifts to be a blessing.

I have really enjoyed this new skill.

What would I change?

What is one thing you would change about yourself?

What would I change? I would change my heart to be more wholehearted for God. I would change it so I would love and trust Him more. So I would offer Him my whole self unreservedly. So I could echo the words of Jesus, “Not my will, but yours be done”.

As I type I am reminded of an old quote from John Wesley…

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.