I’m sitting here watching American Idol with Andrew and Vanessa – I miss this show! Thank God for Tivo! Also – random thought – I love Hulu.com – you can watch any show anytime for free – I’ve been watching The Office a lot lately.

• I’m sooo pumped for the Steelers-Ravens game tonight

• We’re now livestreaming our services at Rev here – you should check it out Wednesdays at 7

• Craig Groeschel had a great blog series this week you should read

• Pastor Larry had a great post on adding value to people here

• Zack Blair has been tearing it up in 19 North’s series: Hope - listen to the podcast here.
  

• We’re going snowboarding tomorrow with Rev – I loovvvve hitting the slopes!

• I’ve really enjoyed training for the Pittsburgh Marathon - we have a great group training together. Below is a picture of us running on Saturday – the temperature was -10 degrees out! Here is a picture we took before the run:

That’s about it – pretty normal week…….

Ok, so isn’t this book on everyone’s to read list? I’ve had it on my bookshelf since high school and never picked it up. It was a really quick read – I read it in one sitting. It was a great book about a professor who comes down with ALS and realizes that he is dieing. He uses his last days to pour into peoples lives, specifically one of his old students, Mitch Albom, the author. They meet every Tuesday and Moorie shares his insights on how to live life. It reminded me a lot of The Last Lecture Here are some of my takeaways:

• Have you found someone to share your heart with?

• “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.”

• “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

• Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it.”

• “What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want – someone to notice she was there”

• Why do people always say, “Oh, if I were young again.” You never hear people say, “I wish I were sixty-five”. He smiled. “You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lived. Lives that haven’t found meaning. Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five.”

Final Grade: B    Buy it here