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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: WORK OUT (05/20/21)
Marietta sat on the edge of her bed with her legs dangling. She was only four foot eleven inches tall, so her legs didn’t reach the floor. She lifted them both out in front of her and held them for a count of three and then let them down. She did this several times. At age seventy-one, this was her daily exercise.

Next door, Gertrude, a tall, big-boned woman of seventy-four reached with both arms above her head to touch the casing on the doorway. She stretched to see how high she could reach. She also did this several times. This was her daily exercise.

Down the street, Nellie, still thin and spry at age sixty-eight, bent over to touch her toes. As a former, ballerina, she found this to be easy. She repeated her toe-touching eight times, holding each bend for a count of ten. This was her daily exercise.

Every Thursday, the three women would come together at Marietta’s Hair Salon, a tiny shop of only eight hundred square feet. Gertrude would wash Nellie’s grey hair, gently massaging her scalp and running conditioner through the ends. Next, Nellie would sit in Marietta’s chair and catch up on the latest gossip while getting her hair rolled and readied for the dryer. This was their weekly routine.

Oh, that we should be like these three in the sense that spiritually, we exercise each day. Shall our legs be worked daily to carry the Word to others and our arms stretched out to reach the lost! May we bend over routinely to help those in need!

Ah, but to meet each week and catch up on the things of God would be worship to our LORD.

Would it not be grand to put effort into our daily prayer life such as these three women did their physical exercises? No matter how old or young we may be, but to apply ourselves to the understanding of our capabilities given to us by our God so that we may serve.

This is our exercise.
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Tammy Ortung 
05/27/21
Great message.
Laura Manley
05/29/21
I thoroughly enjoyed this writing. You brought this reader in with the description and antics of the three ladies and then rounded it off in relation to spiritual matters. You were right on topic wise. Nice job!
Sue Botte 
05/30/21
Excellent! Let it be lesson to us all, and especially to me. Well done, I loved it.
Laurie Kiel 
05/30/21
You were right on topic with this. I liked very much the description of the three ladies exercise and then bringing spiritual application. Well done.
C D Swanson 
05/31/21
Fabulous message!
Inspiring and well written.
Blessings~
Penny Neimiller 
06/06/21
Great article! Thanks and Congratulations!
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
06/09/21
I like how each person did what she is capable of and how each is different. You've a great spiritual message too. Congratulations on ranking 3rd in your level and 13th overall. The highest rankings can be found on the message boards.