Christ, Sprint Car Racing, coffee, reading, poetry, nature, theology, psychology, skiing, biking, playing guitar, music, cultures, people baffle me
Music
James Blunt, John Mayer, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Black Crowes, Bob Marley, BB King, Byword, Johnny Cash, anything acoustic,
Movies
Breakfast at Tiffany's or any Audrey Hepburn movie, Days of Thunder, Castaway
The Picture of Dorian Gray (favorite!!),The Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Letters to a Young Poet, Bible, anything by John Piper, Shelly, or Whitman, racing biographies
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Heroes
My Dad, Christ, Jonathan Edwards, Jan Opperman, Ghandi
About me:
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About me? I am a Christian, a race car driver, a student working on a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family counseling, a coffee addict, an information junkie, a lover of music and poetry, a reader, a part time narcissist, a runner, an author, and an owner of a white bunny rabbit named Herbie.
Race car driver: As a second generation driver I started at age 13 in mini-sprints and won a clean sweep on my fifth night. In 1998 I switched to 360 Sprints and won my first night at the Gallatin Valley Super-nationals. Since then I have won 36 A-main events on ten different tracks in 3 states and one Canadian province. I have won with every traveling series in the Northwest (ASCS-Rocky Mountain, Big Sky Sprint tour, Northern Sprint Tour, Alberta Sprint Tour). Most recently I won the 2008 Big Sky Sprint Tour Championship as well as sweeping every track championship in Montana (Electric City Speedway, Gallatin Valley Speedway, Billings Motorsports Park). In 2007 I was the Alberta Sprint Tour Champion and the Electric City Speedway Track Champion. I like racing because it is technically challenging, physically demanding, mentally/psychologically rigorous and competitive. I especially enjoy the mechanical part as I have built my own engines, and rebuilt every part of the car from welding the frame to rear-ends to shocks, etc.
Christian: What does being a Christian mean to me? It means knowing you have major imperfections and that no matter how hard you try you don’t always get it right. But in spite of that you know that God gives undeserved grace, mercy and love because Jesus has taken my place, enduring suffering for my failures. Because of that I am free from every situation where I would have been trapped into the course of bad decisions, the path that leads to death. All things are possible with God through the power of Jesus’ sacrifice and the love of the Holy Spirit. Being a Christian is about knowing the incredible love of God and having faith that He has a plan that is good. Being a Christian is about living in a manner that draws attention to the greatness of God. I’m nothing special. Everything I have is a gift. You can call it hitting the genetic lottery. You can call it being in the right place at the right time. You can call it learning from others. I call it all God’s grace upon me, a very undeserving soul.
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That is just how the pickle squirts my friend. I put her in front of you because I was hoping that would get you to vote for the "right" side but I guess I was wrong. No just joking. I am actually in the process of redoing my top friends so you will just have to wait and see what happens.
Yeah, I wish we could have endured this class together too! Hey, did you know that Keely got married yesterday? You missed it by one day! I tried talking to her but I think she was all wrapped up in wedding things...
Hey Joe! How you been? We were gonna try to make it to one of your races this summer, but with a baby and 4 dogs it's hard to get away from home. Tell Missy hello from me too. Take care.
that would suck if you cant make it. i think i am just going to go and watch. not going into the pits. im going to try and distance myself as much as i can. ive been doing way to much damn thinking and its getting the best of me.
