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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Fighting Lions: Now What?

Fighting Lions: Now What?: I walked back and forth in the woods for I don't know how long, but no where near as long as I thought. I'm intelligent enough to kn...

Monday, February 26, 2018

Fighting Lions: Nighttime in the Woods

Fighting Lions: Nighttime in the Woods: One thing about me is I'm very big on plans. Jeremy (one of my brothers from Pr.18.24 if you're unfamiliar with that blog) got me to...

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Fighting Lions: Going Back to the Woods

Fighting Lions: Going Back to the Woods: It had been almost a year since my vision quest, and a lot had happened in that time. I had completed my first master's degree, and was ...

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Fighting Lions: Distant Reflections

Fighting Lions: Distant Reflections: In all honesty, I haven't looked at the cards form my first vision quest since I initially wrote them out. When I wrote those words from...

Friday, February 23, 2018

Pr. 18.24: Band-aid on a Bear Mauling, by Will

Pr. 18.24: Band-aid on a Bear Mauling, by Will: I've been hesitant to write this post, simply because of the nature of it. I'm not afraid or ashamed to say what I'm about to sa...

Fighting Lions: Initial Reflections

Fighting Lions: Initial Reflections: My 24ish hours in the woods gave me a lot to think about. I realized some things about myself that I had never grasped before, and the reali...

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Pr. 18.24: Proud Dad Moment, by Will

Pr. 18.24: Proud Dad Moment, by Will: I'm not a big fan of winter. In the past few years I've realized that hiking doesn't have to end when it gets cold and snow cove...

Fighting Lions: Quest Conclusion

Fighting Lions: Quest Conclusion: Looking back over my index card notes, it's clear to me that I really didn't get the concept of surrendering at that time. In all ho...

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Fighting Lions: Surrendering Someday

Fighting Lions: Surrendering Someday: The reality of what I had just written is a bit difficult to admit, but that is the way I used to think. My entire life I have had responsib...

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Fighting Lions: Entitled to Someday

Fighting Lions: Entitled to Someday: After a few more minutes of processing the realities that had been revealed to me, I got up and started walking again. The trail I was walki...

Monday, February 19, 2018

Fighting Lions: Waiting for Someday

Fighting Lions: Waiting for Someday: I sat on that bench, watching the light begin to break through the trees, and realized that all of my life was being lived for someday. I wa...

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Fighting Lions: Living for Someday

Fighting Lions: Living for Someday: I typically don't sleep very well in the woods, I don't go camping for the sleep, but that night was the worst sleep I've ever h...

"Strength and honor." -Gladiator
"Brothers, what we do in life, echos in eternity." -Gladiator
"Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly we cannot choose how but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men." -Gladiator
"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." -Gladiator
"Any man who wants to give his last, follow me." -The Hobbit, The Battle of the Five Armies
"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." -Braveheart
"I am William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? ... Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live, at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom" -Braveheart
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." -Braveheart
"Rise and rise again until lambs become lions." -Robin Hood
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there premanetly if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. that's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!" -Rocky Balboa
"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." -Kingdom of Heaven
"What man is a man who does not make the world better?" -Kingdom of Heaven
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you ... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!" -Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day Message

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." -Proverbs 27.17
"Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love." -1 Corinthians 16.13-14
"But flee form these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses." -1 Timothy 6.11-12
"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." -2 Timothy 3.16-17
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing." -2 Timothy 4.7-8
"Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." -Joshua 1.6-9