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Have Faith

circuit around my home town and attack it at least four times
a week. Not the hardest exercise for most keen cyclists but for
me it has proved a challenge. Many times over this past month
I have got to the point where I wanted to stop because my body
With Paul was screaming at me. Thankfully, I have managed to keep going
and I have even started timing myself in an attempt to measure
my fitness and push myself even harder.

How Do You Find The Strength... A few days ago, while out on my bike, this very subject was
winging around my brain and I was remembering what
has been there to inspire me. One of my favourite spiritual
quotations came to mind: “Difficult roads lead to the beautiful
As a ex-soldier, the subject of digging in just that little bit destinations.”
further is one that tends to pop up in my mind every now and
then. Thoughts of finding that little bit extra to push ourselves Although this is not a Bible quotation, I have found it to be one
to the end of a rigorous training session often cross my mind. of life’s great lessons. But the same kind of thing is quoted in
I especially recalled this recently while trying to burn off a few the good book at James 1:12:
unwanted pounds on my bike. Throughout this mag, I have had
a bit of a joke about my cycling endeavours but in real life it has ‘Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having
been far from funny. stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the
Lord has promised to those who love him.’
A few years ago, I went from a very healthy and very fit state
to one fighting for his life when I had a series of chest pains If you are struggling to go on in whatever you are doing,
which turned out to be hereditary heart disease. It has been a especially during these testing times, I think the above two
long road back but now, at the age of 55, having two stents fitted quotations are good starting points in finding your own
to my coronary arteries and, due to the mass lack of exercise, endurance. Most of all, don’t give up.
I have realised I need to get back up there. I have set a 20km

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