Where the Rubber Meets the Road (or Trail/Treadmill)

Sometimes, chasing a dream tends to shed lots of light on life. Running does that for me. I must admit, a month ago I was pretty overwhelmed with training schedules, the smart food choices I should be making, and the amount of time training for a marathon would take...then I remembered why I love to run. I didn't get to run today and missed it. After getting over the initial shock of missing something that slightly resembles some cruel and unusual punishment, I thought about all the things I had learned while running about myself and my relationship with the Lord.

I love it. I have nothing to do for an hour but put one foot in front of the other. I get to just listen and be realigned with the Creator of my soul. One of my favorite things that I learned last year happened while running with a friend down my favorite trail in the woods. I was telling him about the crazy week I had experienced, when I had a "light-bulb moment." For no reason at all, we had chosen to run the trail backwards. I started to notice things along the trail that I had never seen before. I had a new perspective on running down this trail. It was the same trail, just looked at in a new light. That tends to happen a lot in life for me. The things I have a mild heart attack about don't really matter a few days later, and completely fade into black in relation to the perspective of eternity. What a lesson to learn: It's ALL about perspective.

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." -Hebrews 12:!-2

This is my hand, and the hands of two teammates prior to our conference Cross Country meet my senior year at UM.

I had a "light-bulb moment" with the Lord. What was the last "light bulb moment" you had?