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Before I moved on Campus I went to a church service with Clement Wee (my Director of Internal Relations). The pastor sent me an encouraging message on the meaning of Hebrews 12: 1-2. I want to reflect on this passage because it has been a source of motivation for me through the course of Pre-SLOW, where I train the executive team, and SLOWeek, where we train the TWUSA team as a whole.    To begin the process of my thoughts I want to spend some time on what it means to meditate. I have re-leaned this discipline, something that I have come to enjoy. It is not just reading the Bible, but picking a select verse and dwelling on it. I guess that would be the purpose of memory verses because you end up reading it so many times that you memorize it. However, meditation is more than just memorizing, it is letting the verse sink into my own soul until I find multiple lessons from it alone. The words and meanings begin to take on new shapes and forms that allow me to see things differently than they have appeared before.    That is what I decided to do with Hebrews 12: 1-2. <br>"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."<br>&nbsp;One notion I gathered from meditating on this verse has been, "let us run the race that is set before us". We each have our own path, God has his own plan for each of our lives. If we compare our lives to others - what do we get but misery? If we focus our race on the lane we are in - would that not encourage authenticity within our lives?    I will let you, reader, now think about it yourself. What do you see in this verse, what sits in the spaces, what is suspended between the lines? Where does the Holy Spirit guide you?   Peace,   Dan]]></description>
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