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Life Is Exercise: Start slowly and under advisement.

Some mornings I do an exercise video first thing in the morning, when I both want to feel on top of it and feel fat. I was tapping my foot

Dec 29, 2013 2 min read

Life Is Exercise: Running requires endurance

You are a runner, running the race of life. It is not a competitive race, but it is a race. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud

Dec 15, 2013 3 min read

Life Is Exercise: Running requires training

Life is like a race, which means it is something we must train for. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives

Dec 1, 2013 3 min read

Life is Exercise: It's ok to be tired.

You are a runner. Running requires effort and makes you tired and out of breath. That is a sign that you’re doing it, that you’re moving, not that

Nov 17, 2013 2 min read

Life is a Story: You Are in a Fairy Tale

Life is a story. It is God’s Story. Not only can these fairy-tales be enjoyed because they are moral, but morality can be enjoyed because it puts us

Aug 11, 2013 11 min read

Living Your Biography

Life is a story. There is the big-picture story that God is telling from beginning to end, a story where we are just bit players adding color along the

Aug 4, 2013 10 min read

Growing Pains

This is the first installment of what I hope to be a regular Monday feature: A Metaphor for Monday. Each Monday during our weekly meeting, I will be pep-talking

Jul 28, 2013 2 min read

Stand & Resist

I was going through some old papers today and found a printed copy of this post I made a few years ago. I thought I’d repost it here, with

Mar 25, 2013 2 min read

Choosing Conviviality or Perpetuating a Pity Party?

Is happiness an emotion reserved for those who have an easy life? Right now I have a child who thinks happiness is a life without math fact drill pages. And,

Jan 17, 2013 3 min read

Convivial Home: My Journey

Originally written in March 2009. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Aug 14, 2012 5 min read