The Snow Run

For those of you who are wondering about the mile run on Saturday,,,,,,,,,,well I can sum it up with I wasn't last but I wasn't first either. Yes we ran in 30ish degree weather in snow flurries! I am not sure what this may say about our group or this new adventure.

I do know this........I was encouraged by the people I was with. They are a group of people who are not gathered together by accident. Before we began our run we met at the Coach's gym, I was just glad to get to the bathroom, it's a long way from my house and once again you know I had me some coffee. The Coach asked some of us our 'story', how we got to where we are - out of shape and overweight. One thing I am discovering is that each of us has a story..........some are triumphant, very inspiring, others are tragic and heartbreaking and others are lost sheep in need of direction.

I desire to share so much with you on this blog but will reserve most of my posts to my personal journey. Right now I am scared but encouraged, so far out of my element of control I feel as though I am in a foreign land. I left the gym the other day after having my first conversation with the Coach with tears streaming down my face for the majority of the way home. Not because of what he said but more about what he revealed in me. I am coming to realize this is not just a journey on my weight loss or becoming physically healthy but there will be more that I know about myself. It is a journey of who I am or who I am becoming.

There are reasons as to why we hide behind our weight. There are motives to our comforting ourselves in the southern comforts of food. There are conveniences and avoidances that we have taken up in order to deny the hard issues of life. So understand that with each pound that is lost there are layers of understanding and fierce giants slain in my life. God has been preparing me spiritually over these past few months for the battle at hand. I have my weapons for the warfare and I know Who has my back.

Thank you for all of you who have encouraged me either by your posts or personal contacts. You have no idea how much your words came to my mind as I was running amidst the flurries. The fact that you believe I can do this even if I have doubted my ability has been my lifeline.

Philippians 3:13-14
 ¹³ Brothers and sisters, 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, ¹⁴ I press ontoward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.