{"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&nbsp;later\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday 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 astounding group of graduates celebrate as they received their degrees from Stanford. As I sat in the hot summer sun listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bpd3raj8xww\">Oprah Winfrey pontificate at commencement<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.segd.org\/?before_the_devil_knows_you_re_dead\">before the devil knows you re dead movie download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> , I thought about their lives and what God might do through them. I also got sunburn.<\/p>\n<p>The day after graduation I hopped on a plane to Springfield, MO to teach at Chi Alpha\u2019s Reach The U institute (that trip wound up being 2,278 miles due to weird routing \u2014 I didn\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\">Augustine of Hippo<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.segd.org\/?loaded\">download loaded online<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  is a dense read). Training a new generation of leaders is fun, but exhausting. On the two worst days I taught 6 hours! I\u2019m amazed I didn\u2019t lose my&nbsp;voice.<\/p>\n<p>One cool thing \u2014 I shared a bathroom with fellow instructor Pete Bullette, someone I had trained at this same conference years ago. He now leads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xauva.com\/\">a ministry of 250 students at the University of Virginia<\/a> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webconsultingdc.com\/?the_invincible_iron_man\">download the invincible iron man dvd<\/a><\/em> . While I don\u2019t think I can take credit for what he\u2019s done there, I was happy that he mocked me for some of my actions those many years ago \u2014 it means I made an impression. \ud83d\ude42 Who knows what the new ministers I trained over the last few weeks will go on to accomplish?<\/p>\n<p>All that to say, I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to help the amazing students at Stanford come to and grow in faith, and I get to train ministers who will multiply this on campuses around the&nbsp;world.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you can read about one of the aforementioned grads in <a href=\"http:\/\/tpe.ag.org\/Articles2008\/4910_Scholar.cfm\">\u201cThe Rhodes Scholar\u201d<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderstruck.org\/?ocean_s_thirteen\">download ocean s thirteen online<\/a><\/strong>  (the article was published on Father\u2019s Day, in case you\u2019re wondering about the huge fatherly emphasis).<em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourrnc.com\/?lars_and_the_real_girl\">download lars and the real girl&nbsp;movie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday 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 astounding group of graduates celebrate as they received their degrees from Stanford. As I sat in the hot summer sun listening to Oprah Winfrey pontificate at commencement before the devil knows \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/06\/26\/boy-are-my-arms-tired\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201c1,825 miles and 841 pages&nbsp;later\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}