Monday, October 4, 2010

Day 65 Heading back home

Saturday was a momentous day.  It marked the halfway point on the marathon training schedule.  Sixty-three days done, sixty-three days to go.  Or in bigger bites, nine weeks down, nine to go.  Ok, your reaction probably indicates whether you are a half-full or a half-empty kind of person.  “ONLY half done??!?  Seems like it has already been forever.”  I tend to view it from a runner’s pair of shoes.  In an out-and-back course, halfway means that you have turned around and are heading back home.  Yay!

There are a lot of things in life where we have no idea how far we are from the finish line.  But we can all know that in the long run of life, we are always headed back Home.  It just takes some of us longer to get there.  So run strong, my friends, in what ever you do with all excellence, living in grace, truth, and the joy of the LORD.

…but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 3.13

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