I know I’ve been pretty bad lately about updating this blog but I’m still sitting here trying to gather all my thoughts and somehow put it into a sentence. The fact that I have made it this far into a paragraph is progress though! Well, I just lost my train of thought… so now I’ll start on my next subject.
In the past couple months an astounding amount has happened! At the beginning of April my dad and I participated in the Capitol 10K! WHOO! We did it in a record breaking time of 1 hour and 21 minutes! I was pretty proud of us considering I had slacked off of training quite a bit. I had plenty of excitement running through me the entire time and because of all the hustle and bustle and old ladies passing me, my Mother’s competitive spirit took over. If little old ladies in tutus could speed walk at a pace that was faster than my jog then I needed to get a hold of myself and pick up the pace. I was a 17 year old girl! I should be able to keep up with people that were 50 years older than me! No pain No gain. At least that’s what I was thinking at the time. The race was more than I ever expected it to be. My Dad and I had made an agreement that morning as we looked over the path we were to be running and we agreed that we would walk up hill, walk flats, and jog the downhills. That seemed very reasonable and seemed like the easiest tactic. Little did we know, we were very wrong. In the end, we jogged up hills to save our calf muscles from burning too much, we ran downhill because we liked the thought of gravity doing all the work after running all the way to the top, and we walked the flat areas because we were so exhausted after running both up hill and down. Once we finished, we did what all great, healthy runners do, we celebrated at IHOP. We worked hard for a whole 81 minutes so that we could enjoy the unhealthiest of all omelets and it is at that IHOP that we started planning for next year’s Capitol 10K. That’s right! We are going back for more! (Running and IHOP) I can’t believe that was almost two months ago already!
Another thing that has happened in the last couple months is my birthday! I am officially 18 years young! My birthday was filled with lots of love and laughter and for that I am extremely grateful for. I could not have asked for a better day than to be with the people I love. I am also happy to announce that due to my recent birthday I am now able to go skydiving! June 10, 2014 I will be jumping out of a perfectly good plane from over 2 miles in the sky and to top it off my Dad and I will be doing it together in Key West, Florida! I have an amazing Dad! He is the best!
So I have covered the Capitol 10K and my birthday so now I move on to my plans from here on out. I know whenI originally started this blog, I designated it for fitness and my journey to a healthier lifestyle and for the most part that will still be true but I will be leaning less on the fitness and more on the lifestyle parts. The lifestyle parts are going to change a little too. I want to focus more on my journey to a better relationship with the people around me as well as with God. I find that the worse I feel the closer I want to be with God but then when I feel better I also want to praise him for giving me a better day. I feel like the second time around with Lyme disease has given me a wakeup call and that is something I would like to be able to share with people. I also feel that if I have a better relationship with God my life is healthier even if it’s not physically. So I would like to use this blog as a way to share how I feel about God and how wonderful and perfect He is. I would like to use it as a tool to share my story and maybe, just maybe I will be able to make a tiny difference in someone’s life. I want to be able to stand before God and be able to say I did everything I could to make his holiness known. I want everyone to know that even though your life may not be perfect and there will be struggles that God does not forsake you. He is there 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Struggles of this life are little compared to what he has promised for us in Heaven. I truly believe that and I want everyone else to know that too. There is a God who loves you and who is longing to be close to you every minute of every day. His love is never ending and unconditional. There is absolutely nothing you can do to make him love you less. So I want to use this blog as a window into my life and my struggles so that I can glorify God through my journey from a sin doin’ material lovin’ self seekin’ person of the world to a Jesus lovin’, school jugglin’, Lyme fightin’ bible studyin’ person of faith. I want to share my faith with others so that they may have a complete life full of limitless faith and boundless love for the one who is our creator. Lyme disease has been a huge faith builder for me and I would never wish it onto someone else but sometimes people need that kick in the butt to finally take God seriously and not push him off until Sunday morning worship and then leave him at church until the next time he is convenient.
So for June’s challenge I would like to invite everyone to read the book “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan. I’m not going to tell you anything other than it is about God’s crazy love for us. Read it and seriously think about what is written. That is your challenge for this coming month and if you choose to rise to the challenge I would love to know what you think about it!
