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Monthly Archives: August 2015

Simply Tuesday

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
by Emily P. Freeman

Sometimes life feels small and ordinary. Sometimes our daily tasks seem unimportant and mundane. In this book, Emily P. Freeman celebrates smallness, and encourages embracing the ordinary as extraordinary. She invites readers to slow down and savor the “Tuesday moments”. Small moments that happen on the least important or exciting day of the week. It’s about making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It’s about having a cup of coffee with a friend. Or sitting on a bench with a neighbor.

Tuesday.

In our fast paced world, “hurry has won the battle, has occupied the coveted land of my soul…Mainly lots of effort toward the wrong goals do this to me…When I’m performing for my acceptance, burnout is always the result.” It’s so easy to become overwhelmed and feel we aren’t doing enough. We’re not big enough.

Life doesn’t have to be about grand gestures or big important things. Every move, when made with the Spirit, can be impactful no matter how small. Let’s embrace Tuesday. Let’s sit on that bench with a friend. And let’s capture the small moments and make every one of them count.

“What if we stopped asking God for big ways to serve him and started walking with our friend Jesus into the next simple moment in front of us?”
Emily P. Freeman

Color Run

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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Back in February, I decided that signing up for the Color Run in July would give me the motivation I needed to begin running and build up my strength in my right leg. I began training and even made it up to 1/4 mile of running, but I started having a lot of pain and my PT told me I probably shouldn’t run as it was only aggravating everything. Because part of my calf is missing, I probably won’t ever really run again.

I didn’t give up however. Participating in a Color Run has always been on my bucket list. So I trained with the elliptical and walking and was determined that although I couldn’t run, I would complete the 5k race in under an hour.

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My friend Laura came up from Atlanta and my mom also joined us in the colorful walk.

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It was so fun going through the flying colors and we kept a brisk pace coming in at the end in under an hour! Two years ago they told me I might not walk again. And maybe I’ll never run again, but at least I’ll be checking Color Run off my bucket list!

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Next thing to check off… IRELAND! What are some things on your bucket list??

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