{"id":1105,"date":"2008-06-26T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2009-07-19T02:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T10:28:20","slug":"boy-are-my-arms-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/06\/26\/boy-are-my-arms-tired","title":{"rendered":"1,825 miles and 841 pages later\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00adter\u00adday I flew 1,825 miles and read 841 pages. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>The last few weeks have been a blur. On Father\u2019s Day I watched an astound\u00ading group of grad\u00adu\u00adates cel\u00ade\u00adbrate as they received their degrees from Stan\u00adford. As I sat in the hot sum\u00admer sun lis\u00adten\u00ading to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bpd3raj8xww\">Oprah Win\u00adfrey pon\u00adtif\u00adi\u00adcate at com\u00admence\u00adment<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.segd.org\/?before_the_devil_knows_you_re_dead\">before the dev\u00adil knows you re dead movie down\u00adload<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> , I thought about their lives and what God might do through them. I also got sun\u00adburn.<\/p>\n<p>The day after grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion I hopped on a plane to Spring\u00adfield, MO to teach at Chi Alpha\u2019s Reach The U insti\u00adtute (that trip wound up being 2,278 miles due to weird rout\u00ading \u2014 I did\u00adn\u2019t think to keep track of the pages I read, but I will tell you that <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bJPY1dAZg8cC\">Augus\u00adtine of Hip\u00adpo<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.segd.org\/?loaded\">down\u00adload loaded online<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  is a dense read). Train\u00ading a new gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of lead\u00aders is fun, but exhaust\u00ading. On the two worst days I taught 6 hours! I\u2019m amazed I did\u00adn\u2019t lose my voice.<\/p>\n<p>One cool thing \u2014 I shared a bath\u00adroom with fel\u00adlow instruc\u00adtor Pete Bul\u00adlette, some\u00adone I had trained at this same con\u00adfer\u00adence years ago. He now leads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xauva.com\/\">a min\u00adistry of 250 stu\u00addents at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Vir\u00adginia<\/a> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webconsultingdc.com\/?the_invincible_iron_man\">down\u00adload the invin\u00adci\u00adble iron man dvd<\/a><\/em> . While I don\u2019t think I can take cred\u00adit for what he\u2019s done there, I was hap\u00adpy that he mocked me for some of my actions those many years ago \u2014 it means I made an impres\u00adsion. \ud83d\ude42 Who knows what the new min\u00adis\u00adters I trained over the last few weeks will go on to accom\u00adplish?<\/p>\n<p>All that to say, I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to help the amaz\u00ading stu\u00addents at Stan\u00adford come to and grow in faith, and I get to train min\u00adis\u00adters who will mul\u00adti\u00adply this on cam\u00adpus\u00ades around the world.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you can read about one of the afore\u00admen\u00adtioned grads in <a href=\"http:\/\/tpe.ag.org\/Articles2008\/4910_Scholar.cfm\">\u201cThe Rhodes Schol\u00adar\u201d<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderstruck.org\/?ocean_s_thirteen\">down\u00adload ocean s thir\u00adteen online<\/a><\/strong>  (the arti\u00adcle was pub\u00adlished on Father\u2019s Day, in case you\u2019re won\u00adder\u00ading about the huge father\u00adly empha\u00adsis).<em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourrnc.com\/?lars_and_the_real_girl\">down\u00adload lars and the real girl movie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00adter\u00adday I flew 1,825 miles and read 841 pages. Yikes. The last few weeks have been a blur. On Father\u2019s Day I watched an astound\u00ading group of grad\u00adu\u00adates cel\u00ade\u00adbrate as they received their degrees from Stan\u00adford. As I sat in the hot sum\u00admer sun lis\u00adten\u00ading to Oprah Win\u00adfrey pon\u00adtif\u00adi\u00adcate at com\u00admence\u00adment before the dev\u00adil knows \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/06\/26\/boy-are-my-arms-tired\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201c1,825 miles and 841 pages lat\u00ader\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}