So, as many have seen I did not keep up with the photo a day bit. I’ll admit it was a little ambitious to start at the end-of-a-school (FOREVER) time. The last week and a couple of days have flown by. When looking back at my past week, I had several pictures and ideas of things to share. And maybe I will do so in coming days. But tonight the Lord just impressed a story upon my heart.
I’m now 17.42 days away from graduating COLLEGE, and 45.82 days away from getting married! WOAH! Where did the time go??? Two years ago at this same time I was about to embark on a summer that would change my life. And I’m facing the same “life changing” moments again.
I thought this fit very well with my reaquaintance of running over the last semester. I ran a 5K with my dad a little over a year ago. After that, I pretty much stopped running, or atleast didn’t try as hard as before. I decided to pick it up again this semester, and taking it very slowly and gradually working up to it I’ve gotten to an even better point than where I was when I ran the 5K. I love to run now! Time really flies when you run. Four months ago, a thirty minute run would have made me throw up. Now I’m anxious to go run. Its a time to think, a time to get any stress out and just go.
Unfortunately, even though I have not been consistent with my physical running over the last couple of years, I’ve been running a marathon in my day-to-day life. I never seem to slow down and simply walk. It feels like yesterday that I graduated high school and here I am about to graduate college with a degree I never thought I would be able to get (praise the Lord for His faithfulness). I got engaged six and half months ago, and now we are almost within a month of the wedding. I’m going to be a WIFE. Its just incredible to see what the Lord has done, and I do not take credit for any of it. Because there is no way in the world that I would have gotten through this without Him. An idea came to me that sometime over the next few weeks, I need to take a walk. I need to put all distractions aside, and just go somewhere to be with Him. And then use that time to be replenished, refocus, and prepare my heart for this new journey.
Have you ever experienced this incessant sprint that we seem to be on when going through life? Some may just say its the way things go, can’t stop time, and that is true. But by golly, we can sure take an hour or two out of our day to just go and sit and be in awe of Him. So why have I not done it?
My mission: Get a calendar out and plan out several walking dates to have.
Rest on this: “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to with the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:3:12-14
I did get to take a couple of pictures this weekend. They include my favorite subjects, the two babies of the family, Abbey and Hudson. I got some new running shoes this weekend, and was anxious to get them out of the box. It took Hudson two seconds to grab my old ones and this was the result:
Aren’t we all just a pair of old running shoes?
J
Just had to take a picture of my baby
