Cooley and Torain spectators, too

Chris Cooley made it through yesterday's practice with a padded sleeve on his left knee. Today the sleeve is still on but Cooley is not practicing.

Ryan Torain is also not practicing but that was expected after Mike Shanahan announced yesterday that he had four screws put in his left hand to repair a broken bone.

Both are wearing a baseball cap getting what coaches call mental reps. The rest of the world calls it standing and watching.

Cooley's injury probably isn't anything serious but it is likely that he will be taking it easy for a while.

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[True Religion Outlet]

Schlepping around a supermarket pushing a stroller with one hand while balancing an overflowing shopping basket in the other is not an easy job. Generally, using a shopping cart and a stroller at the same time is impossible (unless the store is near empty, populated only by child-sympathizers, the aisles are huge and you are graceful enough to simultaneously push and pull...)

[True Religion Outlet]

This is very dangerous ground for us to be on, because growing as a disciple, is not about attaining moral perfection. Jesus gave his life, not just his life (cliche reference), but his actual life, so that moral perfection was not the standard we were to be judged by anymore. Discipleship, following Jesus, is all about a journey we go on with Jesus toward restoration and wholeness! So it doesn't matter how old the person on this journey is, they are not to be measured by their moral behaviour, but they are to find their measurement in God against that transformational power of what Jesus did on the cross. If this becomes someone's experience then we will see a life transformed by God.
That is my hope hope, dream and desire for our young people. Not that they are perfect, who can or wants to be perfect? But that they know, experience and exude the transforming presence of God. It is this that can and will make all the difference!