Sip #1 – Read Chapter 9 of Ecclesiastes in the NIV translation
Sip #2 – Read my big takeaway from the day
Sip #3 – Add comments/thoughts/questions in the Comments Box (bottom of page). NOT REQUIRED
Sip #4 – Re-read any parts of Chapter 9 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow for Ecclesiastes, Chapter 10 in the NIV translation.

A very Happy Tuesday! Springtime weather in Central Illinois in February means an 8-mile training run in shorts last night! Our next marathon is the last weekend in May in Fargo, North Dakota, and it would be amazing if all of my long training runs could be outside the rest of the way out. I am not a fan of running on the “deadmill,” I mean the treadmill. haha 

I hope you had a great Monday, and are ready to dig into Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9! Look at verses 14-15… 

“There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.”

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