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One For Fellow Writers...!

What do running and writing have in common?  My two sons love telling jokes.  They have, in fact, become a headline act in our church's yearly talent show.  Andy Murray's favourite number?  Ten is.  His bedtime?  Ten-ish!  Such is the quality of quip featured in their annual performance.   'What do running and writing have in common?' sounds, initially, like a question so absurd that it wouldn't be out of place in their next recital.  Running and writing?  Surely these two verbs are from such far-flung ends of the 'verbial' spectrum (sorry, a neologism was necessary there!) that they can only co-exist in a comedy line-up? Think again!  I have long thought that running contains a limitless supply of metaphors for our spiritual lives.  It was only this morning that I began to discern its countless connections to writing too.  As I set out running this morning, for the first time in a while, after weeks of holidays, parties and indulgences,  I observed a