Writing Lessons from the Mini

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Today I’m in ACFW board meetings, so here’s one of my posts on how writing and running are similar. What have you found that is like writing? If you read Wednesday’s post, you’ll see a common theme with different applications. One thing I’ve learned is that little in my life ever falls in one category. God often uses lessons from …

Running with Perserverance

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I’m in the middle of training for another mini-marathon. Each year that I do this, it seems God has something different for me to learn or ponder. This year it seems to be the issue of discipline.Yes, I am a highly disciplined person. But this year God’s using my training to reinforce that I am disciplined in the things I …

Lessons from the Mini

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One thing I’ve learned is that little in my life ever falls in one category. God often uses lessons from one to teach me principles that can be applied in other areas. Saturday I ran the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon and being me, I looked for lessons and principles. Here are a few I extrapolated out… 1) Be prepared. Eric didn’t know …

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This weekend I ran the Indianapolis 500 mini-marathon. The highlight for some folks is that they get to run on the race track — 2.5 miles of racetrack. Ugh. For me the highlight was that my amazing husband got to run with me. About four weeks ago we learned that Jonathan’s first T-ball game was scheduled for the same morning, …

Why is it…

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That for months I’ve wanted to fit exercise into my schedule and literally couldn’t find time. It was exercise or get 5 hours of sleep. For some odd reason, sleep won. Now that the Indy mini-marathon is less than four months away, things have changed. (The fact that I start writing my next book this week may alter things a …