"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?" - Fred Allen

I keep riding but this never happens. Why???

We hit 115 in Sun City today and it was SO much fun they say we'll do it again tomorrow. 

Having lived in CA for 17 years I find the coverage of a moderate earthquake back east amusing. 

I took the engine to VW Performance this morning. If I haven't heard from him by Monday I should call to find out if we're talking major rebuild or minor refreshing. He agreed that the engine seems to have had work done just before it was parked in 1981 and the case has been opened at some point - one bolt is missing - so I'm cautiously optimistic.

I realized last night that I'm done with the messy part of this job. The chassis is done and when I get the engine back it will be clean inside and out. The body will come back as clean as the day it came off the assembly line. No more grease and oil on my hands or the garage floor.  There will be some dust and dirt as I rehab the seats and clean up the engine tin but nothing like I've had. So I was out in the garage very early to clean up Pam's side of the garage floor. When we bought this house it had an epoxy coating on the garage floor which makes cleaning up oil and grease a lot easier. Tomorrow I'll do the best I can to clean the floor on the other side, around and under the chassis. 

Historians talk about primary and secondary sources. The latter involves what others have to say about an event or person. They can be a rich source of information, especially if the writers were chronologically close to the events or have particular expertise. But primary sources are always best. Those are the documents or artifacts immediately associated with the person or event under study. A letter in Lincoln's hand, tools used by a 16th century blacksmith...

Pastors do primary and secondary research, too. We can too easily get in the habit of using only secondary sources - commentaries and books written about Scripture. I'm as susceptible to that temptation as anyone. But like getting out for that daily exercise, getting started with primary source work always brings satisfaction.

This morning, after dropping off the engine I headed to Paradise Bakery, ordered a lemon poppyseed muffin, and got out my Greek NT, my NASB and my list of the 51 NT passages where the words pneuma hagios (spirit holy) occur absent any article(s). I got about halfway through the list. At this point I'm just identifying the subject matter of the passages in broad terms. When I'm done I'll go back and take a closer look at them individually and as a group. Patterns? Common thread? Any reason why these 51 lack any definite article when the vast majority include it?

Have no idea where all this leads. I think it's going to be relevant to an article idea bouncing around in my head. But either way, spending time in God's Word is always its own reward. It's worship - taking time to listen very closely to what he has said. Even if I come to no conclusions and end up with more questions than I entered, it will have been time well spent.