I am so glad that Elizabeth worked on our training plan so that I can look on the calendar each day and know what I am supposed to do each day for a workout. Tuesdays are generally hills or speed workouts. Sundays are always a long run. Saturdays have the option to cross train. Some days just have easy mileage built in. The routine is good along with the variety built in.
There's something about routine that can be really helpful. There's something about discipline that actually brings freedom.
Richard Foster gives these words in his book Freedom of Simplicity: “Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.”
One more quote from Richard Foster from a book he wrote called Celebration of Discipliine: “A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.”
My prayer for you today is that you would find freedom in discipline (whether in soccer or in school or in your faith) and that you would trust God to fill you with His grace through the process.
There's something about routine that can be really helpful. There's something about discipline that actually brings freedom.
Richard Foster gives these words in his book Freedom of Simplicity: “Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.”
One more quote from Richard Foster from a book he wrote called Celebration of Discipliine: “A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.”
My prayer for you today is that you would find freedom in discipline (whether in soccer or in school or in your faith) and that you would trust God to fill you with His grace through the process.
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