Why is exercise and movement so much harder as an adult? What happened to the carefree days of running like the wind or jumping rope for hours with friends?
Exercising is absolutely a discipline and it’s an important one too. Sometimes it’s just as much fun as playing on the playground or riding your bike to a friend’s house, but other times it’s just a necessary evil, like walking two miles to school everyday (in the snow and uphill both ways).
The secret is not really a secret. It is, in fact, an obvious thing and probably makes up the secret to any successful endeavor. Prayer Consistency Dedication Selflessness That’s it. That’s the silver bullet. It isn’t method, curriculum, schedules or perfect students. It’s prayer for wisdom
Sunday morning, first of February, in the year of our Lord, 2026. 6:30 am, 12 degrees Farenheit, but feels like 7 degrees. Currently clear skies but still an hour before sunrise, so Sandlin Mountain and Oglethorpe are dark on a dark horizon. For those unfamiliar with the location of
Yesterday afternoon, Walter and I spent a lovely five hours home alone, napping, watching shows, cleaning house and doing little projects while Curtis and the kids climbed to the top of a waterfall, ran in fields, played on playgrounds, and just in general enjoyed fresh air and sunshine. It was
God blessed our family with an opportunity to live in “paradise” somewhat recently, and we spent a year living on a tropical island in the Caribbean. We are now back in Georgia living in a similarly warm but different climate and it’s given me some stark examples of how