Tag: runners
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The Ankle Clicks (#jammed daily devo, day 132)

May #jammed: Growing Grace. Day 132: Reminded. “Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.” Proverbs 23:12 The pink morning sky made my feet light as I hurried to the end of the pier. Warm morning air, boats leaving the river, and the first orange glint of the sun …made me want to…
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The Ankle Clicks (#jammed daily devo, day 132)

May #jammed: Growing Grace. Day 132: Reminded. “Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.” Proverbs 23:12 The pink morning sky made my feet light as I hurried to the end of the pier. Warm morning air, boats leaving the river, and the first orange glint of the sun …made me want to…
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The Smiley Faces

“MOMMMMMM-A!!!”cried my wallowing six-year old, accompanied by her trademark stomp of dissatisfaction. “It’s doing MINUSES now …that’s too HARD….” For days, exasperated sighs and incorrect buzzers had drifted from the kitchen counter at breakfast. But every once in a while, I would hear a jubilant yell: “A smiley-face! I got a smiley face! I beat the teacher!…
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…the other side.
Ahhh, the beginning of Track season. 32 degrees, but the sun was out and the wind was dead. “Shorts and T-Shirt” weather, as one of our brightest observed. My view of the track has always been linked closely with pain…and joy…and hurt…and triumph…and nausea…and pride…and…well, you get the picture. From the other side of the…

