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i have been in colorado for about 2 weeks now...my triceps are killing me, it hurts to laugh because my abs are hurting, and i get up way too early in the morning, but to be honest...those are my only complaints. 

for those of you that don't know...God is awesomes.  I enjoy the classes and the teachers...not to say i don't freak out at how much reading and quizzes there are, but still, it is great.

i am so constantly being challenged.  oswald chambers spanks me in the morning and then i go to class and am majorly challenged.  every part of this is going to stretch every part of me.  and i need it greatly.

this morning as i was attempting--and not accomplishing--to do 100 push-ups, and running 1 1/2 miles and running 5 wind sprints, i got really frustrated...not with the work out, or with austin pyle, the work out leader, not with the people that were late and so we had to do extra wind sprints, but with myself.  i used to be in shape.  maybe not that awesome of shape, but it was a good shape...and then, while i'm running and feel like i'm going to vomit up a lung, it hits my heart how out of shape i am spiritually.

it's weird.  dying while running, you would think, would cause me to be upset and ponder how out of shape physically i am, but i can't help but think about my spirit and my relationship with god in those moments.  they are breaking moments...moments that make me sick...that i am so far, that i have been doing ministry in this condition for a long time, that i could have been so much more effective.

but i am on my way.  i will be stronger in more ways than one.

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[kate zuccarello]

amen! let it be so in all of us! looking at ourselves wholistically really brings new meaning to the wholistic words of jesus.

bust out the spiritual gazelle - tony little style!

[EV]

Irony--it's 12:26 am,as i read your blog about getting fit i am dipping my Jay's potato chips in french onion dip.
the bag does boast 0g trans fat so i guess i'm okay?

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