"Are you making a real life?"

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Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner was regarded by many as a leading Democratic candidate among those jockeying for position to run for U.S. President in 2008. That’s a pretty lofty place to be in your life; rare air for sure.

But Warner recently decided not to run, not to give the next year and a half of his life to campaigning and then potentially the next four years to the all-consuming task of running a nation. Why did he decide not to run?
Warner says that one weekend last month he attended his father’s 81st birthday and took his oldest daughter, Madison, to several college campuses as she prepares to go off to school. "I know these moments are never going to come again," Warner says. "This weekend made clear what I’d been thinking about for many weeks—at this point, I want to have a real life."

Mark Warner, front runner for what many regard as the powerful job on the planet, chose to listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

If Mark Warner can do it, so can you. Ask God to help you make a tough decision as you choose to listen to life and make a real life.

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