What Must I Take Up? What Must I Lay Down? (Guest Speaker: Julie Peyton)

Hebrews 12:1

Julie is a member of West Hills Friends in Portland, Oregon. She and her husband (David) came to Quakers in the mid-1990s, and quickly found a spiritual home among Friends. Julie's professional life was spent mostly teaching basic chemistry at the college level. Her favorite Quaker is Isaac Penington, whom she reads daily. Well, almost daily. Close enough, anyway. Penington is a great help to her as a "recovering Evangelical." Also helpful has been distance running, and she will tell you that she can draw a direct line between becoming a runner and becoming a Quaker; feel free to ask her about that.

Hebrews 12:1 (NRSV): 

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,

let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and

let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us...

Query:

What do I/you/we need to lay aside, or to take up, in order to be faithful in this moment?