{"id":17322,"date":"2026-03-10T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/encourage-someone-for-lent\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:03:26","slug":"encourage-someone-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/encourage-someone-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage Someone for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Lenten season of <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/daily-devotions\/devotions-for-inspiration\/spiritual-growth-and-new-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiritual growth<\/a>, people often give up things like chocolate or sweets. But you can do just the opposite and take on things. How about encouragement for one?<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about an encourager in my life. Freddie. I see him on weekdays when I do my morning run. He sweeps the sidewalk in front of Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>My morning run. I wish I could tell you that I put on my sneakers and dash out of the front door without a moment\u2019s hesitation. I wish I could say that I savor every footstep. Truth to tell, that first slight incline up the driveway gets me winded, and I\u2019m already wondering how I\u2019m going to get through the next three miles.<\/p>\n<p>By prayer, of course, by a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/encourage-and-be-encouraged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self encouragement<\/a>, that little engine-that-could voice God gives us that says Yes, I can, yes I can, yes I can. Right, God, I can. I would never win any poetry-in-motion contest. I seem to get slower by the month. Huffing and puffing my way around the park and back down the street that will lead me home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy have you picked a run with so many hills?\u201d I ask myself (huff, puff, huff, puff). 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