I attended a Wednesday evening Bible Study that was led by my friend
I visited last week. He is a youth minister at a growing Baptist church.

I immediately thought of Kevin when he began his Bible Study by telling
the story of a mutual friend who was riding in his (the minister) car one day.
They pulled up to a light and heard a motorcycle behind them, but somewhat
close. Our friend, who thought of himself as a motorcycle enthusiast, declared
in all confidence that it was a Harley-Davidson. When it passed them, it was
discovered that it was a Yamaha.

My friend continued to tell the youth that a Harley has a distinctive idle compared
with other cylces because of the way the engine is put together. NO OTHER bike
idles like it. His point, which he backed up with several readings, was that it's
what is inside us (Christ) that makes us run different from others. That's how others
can tell we are Christians.

It was quite a good Bible Study and discussion, as well as a neat night of worship.

It was one of many highlights of a relaxing and enjoyable week!

PEACE!
Nancy

What do you get when you put a Harley together with a Christian?

Hog Heaven!

Boyd

I know that Harley Davidson tried to patent that sound, but I don't know if they did or not.

I do know that it isn't as hard as it used to be to mistake other bikes for Harley's. Evidently, Harley's are so popular, especially the big cruisers (known to "us" as "dressers" ), that many other motorcycle companies are building bikes that look and sound remarkably similar to the good ole HD's.

Unfortunately, HD's have also become so popular as to become a status symbol, even among other HD riders. Example- the other day it was nice enough to ride, but I had my bike all apart ( ), so I rode Myra's cute little red bike to work. During the day Myra called me to tell me that her daughhter was sent home from work because she was sick, and she wanted me to go check on her when I left work.

On the way I pulled up behing a BMW Z3 at a light, and mumbled something along the line of "Nice over-priced Miata..." (okay, so that probably wasn't the nicest thing to do) The girl driving it heard me, and laughed. At the next light I was beside her, and she looked over and said "Nice Sportster", and being the nice guy that I am I relied, "It's my wifes. Thanks.", to which she replied (this is where it gets snotty...) "I have a Dyna- it's a real bike." Of course I nicely told her to just get over herself, and she informed me "It cost about $20,000", and I really let go, asking her if she really thought that impressed me. I finished by asking her that if it was such a nice bike, why wasn't she riding it, but she didn't answer.

I know that I probably over-reacted, but my point is that so many things in people's lives now are bought and paraded around just so that they can look important or "in" with the popular crowd. The girl had the perfect yuppie-mobile, the perfect clothes, the perfect hair pulled through the band of her perfect little ball-cap, and she even had the perfect "real" bike, which was sitting at home in the garage, I guess.

I assume that just because I was on a Sporster and she had a Dyna (the smallest of the "big" bikes"), that somehow I was supposed to bow at her feet in awe or something.

I do not like it when people "dress for success", or try to make themselves out to be something other than what they are, be it by attitude, what they say, what they wear, what they drive, or any of the thousand other ways that people try to build up their own little feelings of inferiority.

Why can't people just be themselves? It isn't all that bad. Really it isn't...

I'm done, again...

Later
God Bless
Kevin

Oh, Nancy... I like the symbolic use of distinctive sound vs. distinctive Spirit. I'll remember that.