What is God doing?
Have you ever felt like God has abandoned you or that His rationale or circumstances for the things in your life just don’t make sense? I would imagine we have all felt like this at some point in our daily walk. I would dare say both those who know God as their Savior and those who do not have had these very same thoughts.
Let me share an analogy that may help put things into perspective on how you may view this differently. I was thinking the other day as I was flying into Cleveland and looking down at the city how different it looks from above than when you are on the street below. We were making a hard left turn, right over downtown, I could see the Key Bank building, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Progressive Field, Quicken Loans Arena and yes the huge Nike mural of Lebron James painted on the side of the building that says “We are all witnesses”. It was a very sunny day and looking down was an incredible site of events taking place and the opening of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Fast forward one hour, now I am in a rental car driving toward downtown Cleveland from the airport. Wow, what a different perspective. My view is limited because of the tall buildings, trees and marketing billboards. There is also the confusion and chaos of everyday life, heavy traffic, pedestrians, long waits at each traffic light and detours due to the parade. I could feel my stress level starting to rise because it wasn’t quite as peaceful as it was an hour ago from above. Life was happening all around me as people busily went about their day. Eventually, I made it to my destination and was able to finish my day.
2009 Awana Grand Prix and Historical Kennedy Racing Team Stats
Below are the 2009 Pinewood Derby pictures of this years car that were unveiled at the March 8th, 2009, Awana Grand Prix at Living Word Baptist Church, VA. Click each image or picture for a larger view. When designing the cars, my son Dawson has a Kawasaki 110cc dirt bike, so he really wanted a Kawasaki themed car. Both of my daughters are 125% girl, so they insisted on pink and princesses for their theme. Reganne has a flash of Dora still, that is why backpack is on the side of her car. I went with a Suzuki theme because my son did the Kawasaki thing…and I thought yellow would look nice. In previous years, I designed each car with different shapes. However, this year I used one design shape for all the cars as it just simply looks the toughest. I did different designs for each last year, but I love the look of this car body style.
Click here to see last years cars and results
Results, the 4 cars above ran 29 individual heats, with 3 cars to a heat. 23 first place runs, 5 second place runs and 1 third place run in one of the finals. Overall 1st place win percentage 80% for Kennedy Racing…not bad. The kids each received a trophy and had lots of fun.
In the past three years I have run a total of 8 cars and we have 6 trophies and a three year win percentage of 84.3%. Out of the 51 total heats in those three years we have finished first 43 times, with a total of 3 first place trophies, 2 second and 1 third.
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