{"id":1701,"date":"2012-06-25T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:14:43","slug":"dont-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/06\/dont-quit.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Quit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I had looked every imaginable place for my Fitbit, the snazzy electronic pedometer my daughter gave me for Mother\u2019s Day, it was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 But I kept looking, even in the same places I had looked before.<\/p>\n<p>Why keep up the futile search?\u00a0 Because things are only really lost when you quit looking for them. So I kept looking.<\/p>\n<p>I see a parallel to our fitness journey.\u00a0 We may have stalled-out times, times we fail, and times it all feels pointless.\u00a0 But we aren\u2019t a failure until we quit trying.\u00a0 As long as we keep getting back on the wagon when we fall off, we are on the path to success.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I found my Fitbit!<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I had looked every imaginable place for my Fitbit, the snazzy electronic pedometer my daughter gave me for Mother\u2019s Day, it was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 But I kept looking, even in the same places I had looked before. 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