For ten years, I lived a very sedentary life.
In 2006, I took my first full-time desk job. It came with a laptop and cellphone. The next year, I was married, patterns of life shifted, and soon I was doing little regular physical activity. It took me years to realize I needed to change.
In the summer of 2015, with encouragement from my wife, I started jogging in the mornings about three times per week. In the months and years that followed, I enjoyed adding other modest physical activities to my life. In the process, I’ve learned much about God’s world, the human body, the pursuit of joy, and my own soul and motivation.
Almost two years into my journey, I wrote what I thought would be just a single article on exercise. A few months later, a friend suggested I write a short book on the topic. Maybe someday, I thought. I needed to keep learning and stick with it a few more years.
