Motorcycle

I added the luggage boxes to the Yamaha, thought I'd see if I grow accustomed to this look. They are actually very practical and have lots of space.

One of my all time worship songs that I enjoy is Hosanna by Hillsong United. There are two major dynamics that I have always seen in the song. The first, most evident, theme of this song is clearly the Lord's people singing out "Hosanna in the highest to the King of kings and Lord of lords!" It is a call to corporate worship and reverence to the coming King and Conqueror of sin. The other theme that I see in this song is when Christ rode into Jerusalem through the east gate He was greeted by people waving palm branches and singing what? "Hosanna in the highest to the King of kings and Lord of lords!" Three days later these same people were again joined in unity shouting "Give us Barrabas and crucify Jesus" At any rate, I hate to associate anything like this to such a great song, but I do. I have always felt that the weeks between the triumphant entry into Jerusalem and pentacost have to have been amazing. Obviously the most important time in human history, but how wild would it be to be in that place.

So this being said, the writer of this song, Brooke Fraser has tons of great music, both praise and worship and down home music that I can't really describe as Americana, but maybe New Zelandicana. The C.S.Lewis song and Albertine are great. She also goes by her maiden name Brooke Ligertwood which she associates with her praise and worship music and her work with World Vision. Awesome music, great lyrics, socially active, buy her stuff!

Piece-O-Ford

So I guess that you can say that the old white Ford has been a good truck. Aside from tune ups, oil changes, and tires that cost $1,000 a set we haven't had anything that bad happen. There was a rebuild of the back axle and a broken leaf spring that were pretty major, and replacement of some of the mechanical parts that run accessories but all in all-original motor and transmission. I had two goals for the truck, 200,000 miles on the original running gear and 175,000 without sinking any major cash into it. I made these goals around 125+ miles and, as you can see, I didn't quite make my first goal. 561 miles short. Look closely, this is what I see when traveling 65 on the highway.

Here's to 200 thousand!