Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Michael Stults & Steve Hugunin- Polar Bear Plunge KC 2012

2012 Polar Bear Plunge Kansas City

If you’re crazy and you know it, please clap your hands! (clap, clap). On January 28, 2012 around noonish, I participated in the 2012 Polar Bear Plunge out at Shawnee Mission Park/Lake in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. This was my first time ever doing it. I owe a big thanks to my friend Steve Hugunin who [...]

General Stress By The Numbers

General Stress By The Numbers

General stress is felt everyday in some shape or form. Most of us wake up in the morning and instantly start thinking about our work place stress because it plays a big part of how we will react to situations. You feel it because if you don’t go to work, you won’t have a place [...]

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Practical and Down-To-Earth

Having that practical and down to earth attitude is always a nice reminder of how God looks at his relationship with us. It should be a reminder that we should consider it to be the same way. It does sound funny to say that because we associate with the relationships we can physically see like [...]

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Grow Strong In Your Weakness

Grow strong in your weakness is something we don’t here often anymore. Weakness is a sign of defeat and in the corporate world of business it is highly recommended that you do not show this to your peers or competitors. The unfortunate truth of it all is we all have weaknesses. There are some that [...]

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Monotony Of Dull Thinking

Today is my oldest son’s birthday. He turned 7 years old. Now he didn’t celebrate in style like we had hoped because he is in the hospital. You can read more about that here: http://www.bripardun.com/2011/08/happy-birthday-brisan/ During the chaos of life and especially dealing with Brisan and Parker’s health situation we run into that monotony of [...]

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Adversity Expected

Adversity Expected Encountering adversity in life is to be expected. That should be the yellow warning sign that should be next to every birth certificate. We live in a deeply fallen world from all aspects. Now one could argue that isn’t entirely true but we all know that there is evil all around us. Even bad [...]

Find Me

Find Me

Find Me Isn’t it funny how life’s events sometimes sweeps us away in the moment? Those events toss us up in a whirl that quickly can become a blur. Find me is simply God stating and even asking for us to find him. Now I know most that read my site might not have any [...]