Another 11.5 degree run this morning!!!!!! UGGGGGG!!!!!!
Can't take much more of this...
Hurry up, February 15th, so I can get this over with!!!!
I am going to buy a stationary bike for days like this....
A child of God- beloved, holy, righteous, blameless, healed, forgiven, brand new, sheep, salt, light, a branch, temple of God, reconciled, a saint, God's workmanship, hidden with Christ in God, an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life, a partaker, a living stone- crucified with Christ, I no longer live but Christ lives IN ME!
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Snow day! And Vacation/Mission Trip BOOKED!
Snow day!
We had a bit of snow, which causes our roads to be horrendous! Nor do they salt, but sand, the roads. So, it was just Nick, Johnie and myself home today.
Dad called and we talked an hour!
I ran 4 miles to celebrate 4 years of running.
I cleaned up and reorganized and hung pictures from where we are working on the living room.
I have almost all of our taxes complete. I am praying we don't have to pay but will break even. I have two more forms to come in..then I'm finished!
But the BEST...we have our trip to Ireland and England booked!
We fly out on Sunday June 1st from Greenville/Spartanburg to Dublin. From Dublin we rent a car to drive to the Willowbrook B&B to spend the next 5 days touring around.
Then on the 7th we will drive back to Dublin (hotel booked) to spend the night to fly to Birmingham, England on Ryan Air (booked) to meet our church mission team.
There will be working with a church plant to reach the community (estate). Then we will fly home on Saturday June 14- through Dublin and Pittsburgh.
I am so excited!!!!!
Thank You, Lord for this opportunity!!!!
We had a bit of snow, which causes our roads to be horrendous! Nor do they salt, but sand, the roads. So, it was just Nick, Johnie and myself home today.
Dad called and we talked an hour!
I ran 4 miles to celebrate 4 years of running.
I cleaned up and reorganized and hung pictures from where we are working on the living room.
I have almost all of our taxes complete. I am praying we don't have to pay but will break even. I have two more forms to come in..then I'm finished!
But the BEST...we have our trip to Ireland and England booked!
We fly out on Sunday June 1st from Greenville/Spartanburg to Dublin. From Dublin we rent a car to drive to the Willowbrook B&B to spend the next 5 days touring around.
Then on the 7th we will drive back to Dublin (hotel booked) to spend the night to fly to Birmingham, England on Ryan Air (booked) to meet our church mission team.
There will be working with a church plant to reach the community (estate). Then we will fly home on Saturday June 14- through Dublin and Pittsburgh.
I am so excited!!!!!
Thank You, Lord for this opportunity!!!!
Monday, January 27, 2014
This is why...
I won't be running many marathons!
$135!
The hotel is $122!
Well, amen!
This is costing us at least $10 a mile!
Sunday, January 26, 2014
I tried so hard!
Going to church.....
My paternal grandparents, John and Betha Cleary, were devout Christians. I went to church with them until my early teenage years. I didn't really know the God my grandparents knew although I went to church with them, and at 13 or so, I was more interested in my friends and the such. So, I just drifted out of going to church. God just wasn't "real" to me.
In 1999, my kids babysitter invited my kids to church. Something inside of me just couldn't let my kids go to church without me. Let's be honest here, my Dad didn't go to church with me- and look where I was: 29, a mother of 3, and so many issues I seem to constantly be swallowed up inside of an emotional roller coaster. I had NO idea that my "issues" stemmed from the fact that I did not know this "God"- they were really "spiritual issues"- the lack of having a spirit alive to God. I was really spiritually dead, trying to fill the needs God created me with, with this world, instead of allowing Him to fill only what He can fill. In short, I was a mess.
So, I went to this little church, that just loved on my kids. And they loved on me. I listened. Jesus began to speak into my heart. I bought a Bible and began to read it. In March of 2000 I knelt on my bedroom floor and said something like this, "Jesus, I don't really know You. I'm not even sure what I'm doing right now. All I know, is my heart is aching in me and I don't know what to do about it. Please forgive all my sin and come into my heart. Make me clean. I can't keep going on like this. I just know You are the only One that can do anything about this. I love You and thank You."
As the months started to pass and I kept going to the little church with my kids- I began to sense SOMETHING REALLY DID HAPPEN THAT MARCH MORNING! I was different. I have been on the greatest and best journey of my life since then, this journey in Jesus!!!!
Friends, your time is now, too. God is always standing ready to reveal Himself to you. That friend or babysitter or whomever invited you to go to church with them, GO. The best place, for me, in the beginning to get to KNOW, this God, Jesus- was in church. Being with those that spoke Truth into me through preaching, teaching, laughing, praying, fellowship, worship- many many ways.
And I'm sure if you asked my Dad, he would say, "I'd give anything if I could go back again and take ALL MY GIRLS to church." Because if my Dad had took me to church- and REALLY KNEW JESUS, I wouldn't have waited so long to know Him and my kids would have known Him from the time they were conceived. My early years and their early years would have looked A LOT different.
Don't live your life waiting until you are 66 (like my Dad) to really know and live in this Jesus. Real and true Life. Because the life you live without Him- it's isn't really life at all. It's empty filler until you die- and then what?
In 1999, my kids babysitter invited my kids to church. Something inside of me just couldn't let my kids go to church without me. Let's be honest here, my Dad didn't go to church with me- and look where I was: 29, a mother of 3, and so many issues I seem to constantly be swallowed up inside of an emotional roller coaster. I had NO idea that my "issues" stemmed from the fact that I did not know this "God"- they were really "spiritual issues"- the lack of having a spirit alive to God. I was really spiritually dead, trying to fill the needs God created me with, with this world, instead of allowing Him to fill only what He can fill. In short, I was a mess.
So, I went to this little church, that just loved on my kids. And they loved on me. I listened. Jesus began to speak into my heart. I bought a Bible and began to read it. In March of 2000 I knelt on my bedroom floor and said something like this, "Jesus, I don't really know You. I'm not even sure what I'm doing right now. All I know, is my heart is aching in me and I don't know what to do about it. Please forgive all my sin and come into my heart. Make me clean. I can't keep going on like this. I just know You are the only One that can do anything about this. I love You and thank You."
As the months started to pass and I kept going to the little church with my kids- I began to sense SOMETHING REALLY DID HAPPEN THAT MARCH MORNING! I was different. I have been on the greatest and best journey of my life since then, this journey in Jesus!!!!
Friends, your time is now, too. God is always standing ready to reveal Himself to you. That friend or babysitter or whomever invited you to go to church with them, GO. The best place, for me, in the beginning to get to KNOW, this God, Jesus- was in church. Being with those that spoke Truth into me through preaching, teaching, laughing, praying, fellowship, worship- many many ways.
And I'm sure if you asked my Dad, he would say, "I'd give anything if I could go back again and take ALL MY GIRLS to church." Because if my Dad had took me to church- and REALLY KNEW JESUS, I wouldn't have waited so long to know Him and my kids would have known Him from the time they were conceived. My early years and their early years would have looked A LOT different.
Don't live your life waiting until you are 66 (like my Dad) to really know and live in this Jesus. Real and true Life. Because the life you live without Him- it's isn't really life at all. It's empty filler until you die- and then what?
Friday, January 24, 2014
Ready or not.....
Well, it was COLD when I went out for my final LONG LONG run before the marathon. Colder than the last LONG LONG run! : )
So, I really had to bundle up. Two socks (running socks and soccer socks, thanks to my son-in-law Ben!), jogging pants, running pants. Two wicked long sleeve shirts, and a hoody. Two pairs of gloves. AND a scarf to cover my mouth. I really need a face mask. I also had a toboggan on and I needed two.
Sweat and cold and wind. : (
I went out with no pace and no time. Just run to finish. I didn't stop my watch any either when I drank water or refilled my water or ate. Or stretched.
But seriously, running long distances IS BORING!
Pain. It just comes with it. It wasn't as bad this time. My right foot hurts worse when I am not running. I think it's tendinitis. My left foot was wrapped along with my left knee. No major pain, nagging from time to time, but not major- so I am thankful! Two ibuprofen before and three after, which is mainly to head off inflammation.
And my watch was dying about mile 20. I don't know if it will last a full marathon. I will be GREATLY upset if it does not. Too much money paid of it to not last more than a year~!
Before I ran this morning I got prepared. My snack bag consisted off ritz bits with cheese and snickers and water. NO mountain dew this time. It nearly killed my stomach last time. I don't drink sodas much so I was thinking the caffeine would help. DUMB. So just water this time, it's what I drink all the time anyway!
Afterward, I had my clothes set out for after my epsom/vinegar bath and coffee set for a hot drink! Like I said, wind-cold-sweat NOT a good combo!
I am satisfied with my run. It's done! So goal accomplished!
Now, I will start tapering down. Next Saturday will be 15 miles. The following 12 miles. And three weeks from tomorrow is the marathon.
So, I guess I better register huh? ; )
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Heart Surgery!!!!!
Once upon a time I believed and would say, "My heart is so wicked and deceitful!" I was actually taught that my heart was wicked and deceitful, even as a believer!
But when Jesus begin to speak Truth into me, this is what He said to me:
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 36:26
Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I live in the time that Jesus has said, "“It is finished!”
Romans 10: 9-10 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Now, because of the Cross, Christ gave me a new heart and dwells in my NEW heart! Ephesians 3
Now, I can do the will of God from my new heart- Ephesians 6:6
Now, the peace of God (Jesus!) guards my heart! - Philippians 4:7
Now, my heart is encouraged in love and the wealth that come with full assurance and understanding "resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3
Now, the peace of Christ rules in my new heart and the word of Christ dwells richly in me. - Colossians 3:15-16
Now, the Lord directs my heart into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ. -2 Thessalonians 3:5
Now, I can refresh others hearts in Christ. - Philemon 1:20
Now, Christ is sanctified as Lord in my heart. - 1 Peter 3:15
So, if you are a believer- you no longer have that wicked and deceitful heart you were born with! Live from the Christ that has given you a new heart and where He lives in you!
But when Jesus begin to speak Truth into me, this is what He said to me:
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 36:26
Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I live in the time that Jesus has said, "“It is finished!”
Romans 10: 9-10 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Now, because of the Cross, Christ gave me a new heart and dwells in my NEW heart! Ephesians 3
Now, I can do the will of God from my new heart- Ephesians 6:6
Now, the peace of God (Jesus!) guards my heart! - Philippians 4:7
Now, my heart is encouraged in love and the wealth that come with full assurance and understanding "resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3
Now, the peace of Christ rules in my new heart and the word of Christ dwells richly in me. - Colossians 3:15-16
Now, the Lord directs my heart into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ. -2 Thessalonians 3:5
Now, I can refresh others hearts in Christ. - Philemon 1:20
Now, Christ is sanctified as Lord in my heart. - 1 Peter 3:15
So, if you are a believer- you no longer have that wicked and deceitful heart you were born with! Live from the Christ that has given you a new heart and where He lives in you!
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