Guest Blogger…Camy Tang!

What’s your birth verse?

I originally got this from Robin Lee Hatcher: http://www.birthverse.com/mybirthverse.cfm
You can find your birth verse! Here’s mine:

1 Corinthians 9:25 NIV
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

Like I told Robin, I can definitely relate to the strict training part. I’m still struggling with self-discipline in many areas of my life.

I kind of wish discipline can be gifted like spiritual gifts, don’t you? Then I wouldn’t have to struggle to make time for concentrated prayer when the washing machine is making alarming noises.

I wouldn’t have to struggle not to lose it when that rude man cut me off on the freeway and almost sent me into the center divider.

I wouldn’t have to struggle to remain patient with the people who are closest to me, who deserve more of my patience than anyone else in my life.

But self-discipline is not gifted. It’s earned. We receive spiritual help, certainly, but we have to “go into strict training” to get that self-discipline.

I don’t know about you, but I HATE exercise. “Strict training” does not inspire joy or excitement in me.

But you know what does? That crown.

I’ve been reading lately about “peak moments,” and how we should strive for more “peak moments” in our day, in our year, in our life.

That crown is the ultimate “peak moment,” and it’s worth all the strict training we go through.

So I try to keep that in mind as I struggle and get frustrated and fail and stagger to my feet to keep going.

Just don’t expect me to like going to the gym. 🙂

What’s your birth verse? Find out and come back here to share!

Thanks for letting me guest blog, Tricia!
Camy

Camy Tang writes romance with a kick of wasabi. She used to be a biologist, but now she is a staff worker for her church youth group and leads a worship team for Sunday service. She also runs the Story Sensei fiction critique service. On her blog, she gives away Christian novels every Monday and Thursday, and she ponders frivolous things like dumb dogs (namely, hers), coffee-geek husbands (no resemblance to her own…), the writing journey, Asiana, and anything else that comes to mind.

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