God and the things of God, the hidden things that we can only come to know through developing an intimate personal love relationship with Him, spending intimate personal time in praise and worship, spending intimate quality time with Him in His presence.
Then....certain styles of Kung Fu, such as Eagle Claw, Tiger Claw, White Dragon style, Mantis and White Crane styles...Pa Kua, Chin Na, nerve attacks, pressure point attacks, Ninjitsu, certain weapon forms such as Escrima, Japanese sword, knife and stick techniques...and body aura building.
Music
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......................Christian Rock, praise, worship; anything by Petra, Kutless, Pillar, Day of Fire, or 12 Stones
Movies
Braveheart - because of the sheer determination of the battles that we sometimes have to fight in life.......and the Matrix - because we live in a matrix formed by our evil adversary, and we have to get beyond ourselves, unplug from the world, and die to ourselves before we can begin to understand our potential power IN CHRIST.
Television
The only good and positive thing that I have seen on TV is . . . . is . . . . well, you get the picture. I read an article in a science journal where they took two families of four, sat both in a room on a couch hooked up to brain monitors. Family 1 watched several different kinds of TV shows and family 2 just sat in the dark......the brain
waves were identical. Go figure!
Books
The Bible!!! There is so much stuff in there that you can read it day after day for 30 years and still keep learning something new because it has to be lived. When we practice what it teaches, and go through deep experiences, those experiences (like a video game) unlock passages to us that we may have read ten times before, but now because of that experience we can see what we could not see before. Its an awesome thing, the living Word of the Living God! Read it, practice it...and it will literally change your life!
Heroes
Besides Jesus, those who have learned and chosen to completely give up their lives in the pursuit of following Jesus. It takes a lot of pain sometimes in order to get to that point, and I really look up to such individuals...even though there are not too many.
The hero I really want to see, is the hero that I can be to someone in the world.
Let's see, I have two main interests in my life...God and martial arts. That may seem like a contradiction, but it isn't. Being a true Christian isn't easy and it's not for wimps, you have to fight your way through what everyone else seems to be giving in too and doing. I've been involved with the Martial Arts since high school, and between then and now I've learned various techniques from various styles ranging from Jui-Jitsu and Aikido to Southern style Eagle and Tiger Claw Kung Fu. My favorite is the "soft" styles of Kung Fu because of nerve and pressure point attacks...it doesn't matter how large or strong one's opponent is when dealing with nerves...you hit the nerve ending and they go down - fascinating!!!
I love to work out, and if and when I can find someone to work out with, we usually do one-step drills and blocking / cleansing drills. In a "fight or flight response" situation, your brain can only pick out the best thing it knows to protect you. If the best thing it has learned is to run, then you will run and probably get the *bleep* kicked out of you. But if you fill your brain with over 170 different self-defense techniques and drill them into your memory banks until they are instant reaction reflexes...you will always be OK.
Who I'd like to meet: Besides God and Jesus, and one day I will, I would like to meet some of the world's greatest martial masters. Now, lest someone I know gets hung up on that word (master), I only acknowledge one Master over people, and that is the Living God. Master in the sense of the martial world means that an individual has mastered a certain martial discipline, not that they are any better or have some kind of authority over others as a focus.
Anyway, I would absolutely love to meet some of the masters of certain disciplines like certain Kung Fu styles, Ninjitsu, Pa Kua, and Snake Style Gung Fu and Chin Na...just all get together and have a huge month long seminar going on, get to learn some really cool techniques and then all hang out together for a day long party afterward.
Thank-You for adding me as your friend. You are a very gracious man. I as well look at many ideas you have in your Blog which you yourself find important in life...and look forward to reading more.
Hi, Well it is good hearing from you thought maybe you forgot about your favorite ex co worker LOL. It is always good to see you too. Hope all is well with you too. I am working alot so that keeps me busy. Take care. Lainie
Just wanted to tell you that I put the highway pic back up. I am really missing her today more than you know. I wish I could be in New Mexico up on a hill spreading 10-dozen pink roses all for her . . .
Hello my love. Find a new kung fu dummy at work yet?? Or am I unreplacable... I miss hearing Davism's all day.... Keep me informed on when you finish your second book. Take care
that would be awesome. yeah wedding was in one word..huge!! but yeah you're more then welcome to come up if you want to stay a night we got a guest bedroom so yeah come on up anytime
Just your lil' step sissy. I finally have the computer working right again. Just wanted to say hi to all of you, maybe we can all make it for Labor Day at the ranch this year? I would really like to see the kids.
