So I have this friend and long time follower of God Running who told me about an encounter he had the other day. He wants to remain anonymous so I’ll call him John.
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The Peace Prayer (a prayer for personal peace)
A friend asked me if I would be willing to write a prayer for us that we could say each morning to help us move to the peace end of the chart above. After praying about it . . .
The Coronavirus and You
Like you, whenever I look at my phone or my TV I see news about COVID-19. The reason it’s such a big deal is because every 100 years or so the world experiences a pandemic like the Spanish flu. That flu infected 500 million people and anywhere from 17 million to 50 million people died.
No one knew what was killing them. There were theories, crazy theories. People said it was because the planets were aligned a certain way, others said it was caused by bad oats from Russia, still others said it was caused by volcanic eruptions. Go easy on these people. We didn’t know about viruses until 1940. The Spanish flu happened in 1918-1920. And we didn’t know much about infection control either. Spanish flu patients were crammed together into rooms filled with cots. Read More
A Better Book Than Mine
(If you’re a Love Like Jesus book launch team member, you’ve already received this content and more in my last email.) Read More
Damian Lillard on the Last Book He Read
One of my favorite NBA players shares about one of my all time favorite books. In this short video clip Damian Lillard shares about how he has a book with him at all times, and, the last book he read was Everybody Always by Bob Goff. He makes some interesting comments about what he read. Hope you enjoy the video half as much as I did. (I start the video at 6:43 to go directly to Dame’s comments about Everybody Always.)
