It's a Running Day!

Running towards a destination instead of trying to run a distance is what came to mind today as I finished up my 4 mile run. I realized as I was getting closer to home that I would go over my 4 mile goal today...just by a little. But then I realized I have changed. My mindset has changed. I used to run to go a certain distance, now I am addicted to the high of running. Now I have to get to where I'm going or come full circle to my starting point.

I'm sure that has some philosophical point but I am busy printing off ABC pictures for my four year old to color so I can't get too deep this morning!

It was a good run...cold...but good. I saw this average looking guy as I was running. It was a strange sight in our neighborhood. He was dressed in a camo jacket and decent jeans. The weird thing is he was rolling his red suitcase down the street at the entrance of our neighborhood. He was leaving to go somewhere but it was strange to see that in our neighborhood. He wasn't getting in his car to drive off somewhere, he was walking out. He wasn't young or old.

I prayed for him. I wasn't sure if he was leaving...running away from something...or running into something. I don't know the situation but it seemed odd and worthy of praying over today.

On another note...January is SUCH a difficult month for me emotionally. The hype of coming off the holidays, getting back into routine and the bleak weather make it difficult to keep my spirit up. I think God gave me running and exercise to combat that. As I was running today, I was thinking about how I just don't have the capacity to run. But God in His grace is my strength. I am weak but that is where He is strongest.

Philippians 3:12-14
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (NKJV)