"God Needs the Best Version of You": What Running a Marathon Taught Me About Comparison
Zack Oates - My wife and I recently ran a half marathon. I use the word “run” quite liberally. The idea was to sign up, get her whole family to sign up, and then we would be peer pressured into training and running the race. Well, we signed up, got her whole family to sign up, and then, we somehow all “forgot” to train. The morning of the race—dew still blanketing the grass, the sun yet to rise—our alarms went off, we woke up, and then we made our way to the buses that would take us to the starting line. But, as it...