life skills
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
On Sunday, March 25, 2007 I joined 24,000 runners in a 4.96 mile race known as the Shamrock Shuffle. It was my first major running event in well over a decade. I wasn’t running to compete with anyone but myself of course. After a couple of months of training (and pain), I woke up on [...]
Spring Forward
I have been looking forward to Spring approaching since the last below zero, bitter cold, windy Chicago weather storm that caused me to ask “Why do we live here again?” It’s not like the cold is something new to us, since we grew up in Michigan. However, this past winter has been a little colder [...]
No Pain, No Gain
We’ve all heard the saying no pain, no gain right? As I have been training for this 8K race, I have known pain and I have known gain. I started out this training running 1 mile and building up each week. There has been pain and there has been gain. We all reach a point [...]
Decide
I am reminded today of a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that says “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” That is exactly how I feel today. I have been approached with a part-time job position that I believe will grow me to the next level that God has for me, but something [...]
My cup has a hole in the bottom.
If you have ever read Psalm 23, then you know the verse that says “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” My cup runneth over.
A cup running over has more in it than it can contain. It has no [...]
