God is good...ALL the time!

It is going to be a very busy week and last week was very busy and next week is going to be busy. Do you see a pattern here? While all this busyness is good and helping to further the kingdom of God, it's still busy and hard to get in all the runs we need to. But every time I take the time to do a run, God blesses me. Whether it's by giving me really good conversations with my friend Robin, or showing my parents just how dedicated we are to this purpose, I am blessed by it. I am going to be completely honest though...I don't always enjoy the run. AHHH! Did I say that out loud? While I enjoy the benefits from the run, the actual run itself is not my favorite right now. My knee is very sore right now and making it hard to run without pain. Do you think Satan is at work again? I think so! So I do not allow him to win and I run through the pain because I am doing this for my Lord and Savior and to help further his kingdom. I run for the people who have donated to our cause and believe in us. I run for the kids in Africa who will benefit from this in the long run. I run because running is a sacrifice and I WANT to sacrifice my body and time. Yesterday started our official training and I got an email from Michael Chitwood who is the president of Team World Vision. In his email, there was a video from him and it talked about how this is going to change our lives. That excites me! I want it to change my life and I want it to change my heart. And that is a big challenge from him...to allow this experience to change our hearts. I'm ready Lord! Change me, mold me and break me! I believe that the pain I feel when I run is just a distraction (and nothing compared to the pain Jesus bore) and I need to start focusing on God and not my pain. But speaking of pain...I did run this last week without my ankle brace and feel no pain AT ALL in my ankle. Yee-haw!! See...God is good and answers prayers! Thanks for reading and I hope God blesses you today and I hope you find a way to sacrifice because it brings blessings like you could never imagine!