The 11th mile.

As most of you fellow facebookers know I have been training for a half-marathon race with all of my wonderful friends. Women who have taught me to continue on and to push through anything and to rely on God because he will provide. We have been training for this race for 7 months now. Might I add that it has been an amazing 7 months. Running has opened up a new way to pray and for Mommy to get some me time. As I sit here and write this right now I am so thankful for our God who has provided me with two legs to get me going and to keep me moving. I must admit in the last couple of months I have been lacking in reading my bible. On our 11 mile run I trusted in myself and not God that I would get through the run with no injuries, that was on Sunday. On Monday my foot started to swell and the muscles were damaged. I was in a lot of pain the week after we ran and ended up going to the Dr. Of course he didn't say anything that I wanted to hear "No running for 4 weeks!" WHAT! I thought to myself "Are you crazy?" I was so disappointed it was like someone had punched me in the gut and I was also disappointed because my best friend and I had been training together for so long. We relied on each other to get through those very long runs. Well today when I woke up this morning I am going to rely on God to get me though these next 3 weeks. He is in control of this and he will make the ultimate decision if I will run or not. Someone wrote this.....

“This blessed life must not be looked upon in any sense as an attainment but as an obtainment. We cannot earn it; we cannot climb up to it; we cannot win it; we can do nothing but ask for it and receive it. It is the gift of God in Christ Jesus. And where a thing is a gift, the only course left for the receiver is to take it and thank the giver.”

So thank you God for letting me get even this far in my running journey. I trust in you that you will guide me and lead me in the right direction with this experience and with any other trials I may be going through in my life right now!!