Showing posts with label losses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label losses. Show all posts

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Winter Olympic Games

Wintergames: Medaillespiegel





GoldSilverBronze Total 
1.  USA 15 13 37 
2.  Geramny10 13 30 
3.  Canada 14 26 









Team USA enters BC Place Stadium during the Op...
Team USA enters BC Place Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games, Feb. 12, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, was a major international multi-sport event held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

82 National Olympic Committees entered teams in the 2010 Winter Olympics to bring fifteen winter sports events.
As in any festival of games many trofees where given. 2010 Winter Olympics medal table

The many medals mean something irreplaceable for the winners. As they stand on the podium to receive their medals what delight to share something of the feeling of being the best in the world, of having achieved one’s dreams! We rejoice with the winners, and commiserate with the losers.

Here no Iron and clay medals. But in the historic papers we do find notes about gaines and losses, and worlds of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay.
Gold, silver, bronze: when you see the winter victors standing in human glory to receive their medals, just spare a long thought for the way this mixed iron and clay world is heading, and an even longer thought for the value of the crown which God offers you with his Son in this world made perfect.

Read more: > Gold, Silver, Bronze: what next?
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Sunday 1 March 2009

The thought of losing rekindles the joy of having

"The thought of losing
rekindles the joy of having."
- Tom Payne

"Therefore, having been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith
into this grace in which we stand;
and we exult in hope of the glory of God."
Romans 5:1-2

Due to distance ourselves from this world it seems to many that we have a lot of losses.
But by following Christ we win a lot.
We are pleased and grateful that we are justified by faith.
We are pleased that through Jesus Christ we have received reconciliation.
And we are grateful to you God, that you have made all this possible for us poor sinners.


Dutch  version / Nederlands> De gedachte aan het verliezen ontsteekt de vreugde van het hebben
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