Anna M. Aquino

            Sometime in May I discovered the Mud Ninja 5k www.mudninja.com .  Given I just released my devotional Confessions of a Ninja Mom ; it seemed like a perfect fit.  My husband and I thought it would be a great thing for us to do with our oldest daughter who is now 14.  She’s into that kind of thing.  So thinking this was a normal 5k (yes, it clearly isn’t on the website, however in our excited naiveté we didn’t realize how intense it is) our idea was to train by run/walk.  Dan and my daughter started running outside, and me on the treadmill.  Together we did some upper body but not consistently.  We knew there would be a couple obstacles.             Saturday was the day.  Perhaps the moment we realized how intense this race really was going to be was when we saw crowds of people duct taping their shoes to their feet. ...

            In the last blog I spoke of a business/ministry situation that went very bad.   I still won’t go into specifics here, but in revealing a tactic of the enemy, I will share a bit of a conversation.   This individual when realizing what was going on, and in trying in insult me, told me “I was nothing but a housewife.”   Yes, it was his attempt at a low blow.   There are a lot of things one could call me I suppose, but when that phrase came out of this individual’s mouth I knew that the words weren’t from the individual but from the enemy/devil.                 As many of you know God called me into ministry very early in life.   When Dan and I moved across the country, I had this notion that the doors to ministry and publishing would open to me very quickly.   It’s taken me a lot longer than I planned.   When God put it o...