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Unleashing God’s Smallest Warriors
This article originally published in the Feb.-Mar. 2010 issue of Deeper. For more articles on faith and family or to subscribe via e-mail to the Mom’s Moments and Deeper Newsletters, go here.
My son, Toby, turned five on January 12th. Our family laughed over pizza at his favorite restaurant just as the whole of Port [...]
I wanted to share this beautiful comment from writer Anna Sklar, on the earlier post “Wingman.”
She wrote:
Recently I came to a place where God asked me if He was enough. If all I ever had was Him, would I be happy with my life. As I was humbled and answered Him “yes,” everything else appeared [...]
My favorite part of this new blog design is the tag line: “Choose a destination, run fast.” The only problem is me not having a destination.
I spend a lot of time writing about my boys. This blog may become the longest book ever written, and if the climax is Toby and Charlie’s passage into adulthood I’m gonna go [...]
All I said to Greg was “Who died?” As in, conversationally. As in, our good friends were called away to a funeral and I want to know how somber I should feel. Not as in, let’s unravel the very long rope of mortality and pluck at each mysterious strand, right here at this very moment, [...]
It was iliotibial band syndrome. Just an overuse injury caused by a tight, irritated muscle on the outside of my thigh. (I, along with half of all runners, am an expert on this injury so feel free to e-mail questions about it!**) The only cure was complete cessation of all running.
Running is spiritual. It is [...]
Melissa taught at the same elementary school I did. It only took a week’s worth of gossip in the teacher’s lounge for our coworkers organize a running partnership for the two of us. I was the youngest person on staff, newly married, and almost as qualified to teach as the custodian. She was the mother [...]
I signed up for my first 5k because I wanted Kim Zmeskal’s autograph. (It was the Edmond Classic– do they still have that one?) I walked most of the course, and afterward I felt like someone shoved six Valium down my throat before dropping an anvil on my chest. I hadn’t really trained because I [...]
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