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<p><a href="http://www.witnesspath.com/2013/01/14/one-year-to-glory-january-13/spiritual-growth/" rel="attachment wp-att-1090"><img class="alignright wp-image-1090" alt="spiritual growth" src="http://toddkmarsha.com/s/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/01/spiritual_growth-300x116.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></a>Happy Sunday!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently avoiding unnecessary work as I enjoy the Falcons/Seahawks game. I hope I haven&#8217;t gotten on the Lord&#8217;s bad side for sweeping the floor earlier. Cady Jane tracked in half the leaves from outside and I just got tired of looking at the floor in its sad state.</p>
<p>My upper body is sore again but far less than earlier last week. What I&#8217;m feeling now is a good kind of sore. The soreness of progress. Last night we enjoyed pizza at a familiar haunt. Gluten free crust for me but I was still quite full.</p>
<p>Although this has been a disappointing week food-wise, there&#8217;s reason to celebrate. I have a $20 gift card from Sonic, a Christmas gift from my boss. There&#8217;s a Sonic less than a mile from my house. I&#8217;m a big fan of Sonic Blasts. Recipe for disaster, quite frankly. I&#8217;ve successfully avoided late night trips to Sonic this past week. There&#8217;s one to build on.</p>
<p>Also spent part of the day looking for ways to get more likes to my <a title="Witness Path Facebook fan page" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/WitnessPath/387117521338238" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page. Shameless plug. Found a couple good ideas you&#8217;ll be seeing very soon. The one thing that stuck with me most is to make sure I&#8217;m creating content you&#8217;ll find interesting and worthwhile.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not easy, especially with the format I&#8217;m currently using. My goal for these One Year to Glory posts is to show you the daily quest in its most raw form. Spiritual growth does not just happen. It requires study, discipline, and action. There are as many failures as there are successes and that&#8217;s the key. I continue to move forward, even after things don&#8217;t go well. I decided long ago that quitting isn&#8217;t an option. I belong to God and I&#8217;ll keep traveling His path until he decides my time is up.</p>
<p>Having said that, I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll keep calling these posts One Year to Glory for much longer. That&#8217;s not a bad thing. Perhaps I&#8217;ll just do them weekly and focus on one particular area of life. Who knows? It&#8217;s not important right now. What is important is moving forward and continuing my path of discovery, growth and sharing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.witnesspath.com/2013/01/14/one-year-to-glory-january-13/the-library/" rel="attachment wp-att-1092"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1092" alt="library" src="http://toddkmarsha.com/s/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/01/the_library-225x3001.jpg" width="225" height="300" /></a>Fast forward to later in the day as I sat down to start reading another new book, <a title="Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst" href="http://lysaterkeurst.com/unglued/" target="_blank">Unglued</a> by Lysa TerKeurst. This was the one book in my list I was putting off reading, even though I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to renew it at the library. (I had to wait four months to get my hands on it.) I had made up my mind that whatever was inside the book wasn&#8217;t what I needed at the moment. Well&#8230;I was wrong. Not the first time and it won&#8217;t be the last.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the content that blew me away, although it was excellent and I&#8217;m saying that after just a few pages read. What blew my hair back was Lysa&#8217;s ability to share her life in vivid detail. She exposed her flaws like a raw nerve. She&#8217;s not perfect! Far from it. But it&#8217;s because of that lack of perfection that she&#8217;s able to teach so well.</p>
<p>To think this was my concern the whole time. Who&#8217;s gonna listen to me? What have I done? Exposed myself, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done. Allowed you to see my journey so you can look at it and say, &#8220;I feel that way too.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve asked myself that same question.&#8221; &#8220;I thought I was the only one.&#8221; &#8220;So there is hope for me, after all.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is my story and it&#8217;s a good one. How it will affect you, I don&#8217;t know &#8211; but it will affect you. I&#8217;ve always had the idea of taking my Witness posts and expanding them into a book. It&#8217;s time&#8230;</p>
<p>God bless,</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.witnesspathc.com/about" rel="author">Todd Marsha</a></p>
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