​Life is like running.

​Follow along as I share  life lessons I learned on the road from my first Saturday run to my first marathon run. Here you'll find 26 essays - one for each mile of my marathon - that share a life lesson I learned during my marathon journey.

I hope these lessons  encourage you the way they've encouraged me. And like me, I hope you'll try to use them to help someone who might be struggling through a race of their own. Whether it's a struggle on the race course or a struggle at home.

​One thing running has taught me, there really is strength in numbers. 

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Rough Drafts Of One Flame Left To Burn

The Warm Up Mile
​Introduction

The startling text message came while I quietly worked on a project at our local library​ (Read More)

Mile 1
​Fan the Flame

"Maybe we’ve become so afraid of fire that we spend our days stalking the flames instead of blowing into them." (Read More)

Mile 2
​The Gate is Narrow

"I’ll come to understand it’s not the narrowness of a gate we need to worry about, it’s walking through that gate alone." ​ (Read More)

Mile 3
​​Be the Lion

Maybe I don't understand victory. I look it up in the dictionary. I read these words:(Read More)

Mile 4
Find Your Passion​

I always thought when I found my passion it would be something that excites me like I've never been excited before (Read More)

Mile 5
Draw on Your Purpose​

In this moment, I fully discover that God has a purpose for this run I’m on. I don’t know if I’ve fully adopted it (Read More)