Cross Into The Future

This week has been a little rough for me.  After a wonderful vacation with the Santoyos, some friends of mine from church, I got home Tuesday just in time for my monthly meet with Sgt. Willmann (my recruiter).  We stretched, did push-ups, sit-ups, and ran.  Sgt. Willmann wanted us to be able to do 50 push-ups in under 2 min. and 50 sit-ups in under 2 min.  I did 33 push-ups and 27 sit-ups :(  After peeling myself off of the ground, we all ran 1.5 miles while being timed.  Having done a mile before for high school, I knew not to kill myself on the first lap.  My senior year (2004) I ran a mile in 7 min. 13 sec., so I was interested in how bad of shape I really was.  My time for the run was 12 min. 45 sec., which means I have some serious work to do!!

Okay! Now to the important news you all have been awaiting.  On Tuesday, when my recruiter and I got back with the rest of the group, he told me that I had a shippout date.  I have gotten a guarranteed job in the electronics area.  This means that instead of getting one of the seven jobs I had requested, I will go to BMT at Lackland AFB in Texas and there I will be able to pick a job immediately in the electronics career area.  My scheduled departure is Tuesday, June 20, which is about four months from now.  This is very good for me because I can finally tell my bosses when I will be leaving, and I still have enough time to take care of my life here before I leave.

I have been doing as many push-ups and sit-ups as I can stand to do every day, sometimes several times a day.  I decided to run 3 times each week through the month of March, then to try to run 5 times each week through April, May and June.  As long as I run between 12 and 15 minutes each time, then my distance will slowly increase.  I do not really have a progressive schedule for my push-ups and sit-ups, I just plan to continue repititions every day to build up my endurance.

All of this working out has made me very tired.  I am now trying to get to bed as soon as I can when I get home just to let my body recover.  I know that this will eventually pass, but right now the main thing that keeps me going is being in shape in time for BMT.  Quoting one of Robert Frost’s famous works: “I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

Morning’s glory breaks soft and sweet,

But this stillness is not dawn:

The world’s heart has skipped a beat

For one man who has passed on.

By humble means God touched this life,

And through death’s shadow led

Until at last ere pain and strife,

Freed him from cancer’s bed.

A beacon in a weary world

This man quickly became,

God’s guiding scriptures he unfurled

For student hearts to claim.

An open door at home he had,

A loving family, too;

No man could enter feeling sad

Joy filled the whole house through.

Then to a crossroad God brought him

A new step in his plan:

“Lost souls are hanging from a limb,

Pick them with tender hand.”

So led by faith from God above,

Man, wife, and son began

To show with warm and tender love

Salvation’s perfect plan.

The countless souls he witnessed to

Told thousands of God’s love.

And children’s lives he did renew

With shelter from above.

Why does this mournful cry awake

From distant, foreign land ?

Out of the quiet sobbing breaks

For one who took a stand.

This man of God is at his place

With those who’ve gone before;

One day again we’ll see his face

When God opens the door.

Until then, and with outstretched heart

Send God’s hope through the land.

And tell them how by one man’s part

Lost souls could take a stand.

>Dr. Robert Kyle Guimon, 46, of Walnut Ridge, died Monday, February 13, at St. Bernard Hospital, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
 

>Dr. Guimon was born October 19, 1959, at Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated in 1978 from Walnut Ridge High School and from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a Ph.D. in Nuclear/Cosmo Chemistry in 1986.  He taught Chemistry at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as serving as the Division Chairman of the Natural and Health Sciences Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also worked in the United States nuclear weapons program at the Nevada Test Site, and had fellowships working at NASA in Houston, Texas. Dr. Guimon, in 1999, moved to Uganda, Africa as a missionary with Bapitst International Missions, Inc.  He started an orphanage and school in Soroti, Uganda as well as establishing churches there.

>He was preceded in death by his grandparents, the late Leonard and Lois Counts, and the late Jake and Essie Guimon.
 

>Survivors are his wife, Debbie; son, Matthew; his parents, Bob and Nedra Guimon, and many other relatives and friends.

>We will miss you, Dr. G.