Okay, so now on to the mental part of running. This is my toughest challenge yet to be sure. I only got in 10.5 miles on Friday. There were lots of factors that caused limitations. I just ran and didn't calculate until I got home and was pretty disappointed really. I hope to run light this week. I think that was one problem Friday is that I put in longer miles and ran more days.
The half is this coming Sunday and I'm having thoughts of ditching! Is that crazy or what? I know I can walk it and set a PR! And the main thing is not how well I do - but just that I finish it. If I crawl or roll across the finish line at midnight that's fine - I will have finished it...and that's what matters.
Isn't this the same as life with faith? We just have to be finishers, not always come-in-firsters! We gotta finish what we started. For many it's too easy when things get tough or too challenging to just want to ditch it all and throw out our faith. Even though that's really impossible for true believers - we still think about it occasionally! (or maybe that's just me!)
But the thing is that just like the marathon life's training sessions can leave us drained and feeling like we're not going to make it. But we just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. You know what? That's faith in its simplest and purest form! Just keep keepin' on...
The Bible is full of stories of true faith-ers. Not those believing for beautiful mansions and BMW's, but real down to earth people trying to make it through life living day to day. Like Joseph. If we could pick someone we wouldn't condemn for giving up it would have to be Joseph! His own brothers sold him into slavery...but he didn't lose faith. We see this when Potipher's wife tempted him and he wouldn't sin against God.(Genesis 39:9) And you know what - he even ended up with all the riches but that was not his pursuit.
So, don't give up you have more faith than you give yourself credit for! Just keep running...
The half is this coming Sunday and I'm having thoughts of ditching! Is that crazy or what? I know I can walk it and set a PR! And the main thing is not how well I do - but just that I finish it. If I crawl or roll across the finish line at midnight that's fine - I will have finished it...and that's what matters.
Isn't this the same as life with faith? We just have to be finishers, not always come-in-firsters! We gotta finish what we started. For many it's too easy when things get tough or too challenging to just want to ditch it all and throw out our faith. Even though that's really impossible for true believers - we still think about it occasionally! (or maybe that's just me!)
But the thing is that just like the marathon life's training sessions can leave us drained and feeling like we're not going to make it. But we just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. You know what? That's faith in its simplest and purest form! Just keep keepin' on...
The Bible is full of stories of true faith-ers. Not those believing for beautiful mansions and BMW's, but real down to earth people trying to make it through life living day to day. Like Joseph. If we could pick someone we wouldn't condemn for giving up it would have to be Joseph! His own brothers sold him into slavery...but he didn't lose faith. We see this when Potipher's wife tempted him and he wouldn't sin against God.(Genesis 39:9) And you know what - he even ended up with all the riches but that was not his pursuit.
So, don't give up you have more faith than you give yourself credit for! Just keep running...
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