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I love fellowship. I grew up in a Baptist church, where we have regular fellowship potluck dinners. We had a fellowship hall. We were instructed to greet one another every Sunday morning for a two-minute "fellowship time." I just recently discovered in Leviticus 3 that one of the Old Testament sacrifices was the Fellowship offering, where you brought your best animal to God just to celebrate the fact that you were at peace with Him and at peace with others. Beautiful. When you handed the animal to the priest, he would burn the best parts of it as a sacrifice to God and give you back your cooked animal, which you would then eat with other people. A beautiful fellowship meal. I went to a Women's Fellowship meeting at my church two nights ago. It was so fellowship-ful. We enjoyed each other's company and ate apple pies and heard a wonderful message straight from the Lord. Then, to top it all off, last night I watched the first Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship...

[Before I get into today's blog, I need to say something:  Sorry I've not written lately. I am so blessed to have a great writing project that actually pays money right now! So I've been putting hours a day into that, and my blogging is suffering because of it. BUT when I had this experience yesterday, I clearly heard God say, "TELL THIS TO YOUR GIRLS." So this is straight from God to you :)] I run almost every day on a trail near my house. I'd totally love trail running if there were no insects. But they are my nemeses. My most common trail-running enemy is spiders, and you can read about my woes with them here . But this week I encountered something new: horseflies. About two minutes into the run, I heard a buzzing around my head. I ignored it, thinking it was a common fly or maybe a wayward wasp, knowing it would disappear in a few seconds. When I reached the top of the next hill and realized it was still orbiting my head, I knew I was in troub...