Mustard Seed Faith (Summer 2006)

Today I was up at 6:30 a.m. I decided to try something I have wanted to do for years. If you have kept up with me lately you must know how I have decided to take on the sport of running. Running the 4 miles today was not new to me. The goal that I accomplished today was running with a real running club. It was so wonderful to push myself like never before. I can do the distance (I am now up to 6 miles and I’m training for a half marathon 13.1 miles) but for me the issue has been time. I was able to run 4 miles today at a pace to keep up with other runners in the running club. I am so proud of myself. Today will be recorded in my mind for life. I woke up on a Saturday morning at 5:30 am to run 4 miles in the heat and humidity. It was tough, I felt sweaty and tired but I did it. Yeah I could chose to focus on how I was in the last pace group within the running club or I could continue to focus on the positive. I got up at a time when so many others are in bed. I did something I didn’t have to do. I really have grown to love running as a sport and I am so happy that I can take it with me wherever I go. It is a social sport that seems to have its own code. Out on those trails we all support and motivate one another. Its funny because I never thought one of my biggest fears would become one of my favorite hobbies. I am now an official member of The Bethesda Rebel Runners. I even have the t-shirt. So why am I telling you this you might ask? I just want you to know that whatever your obstacles may be you can overcome them. You can do anything you set your mind to doing. All things are possible if you believe you can achieve them. Learn to embrace your fears; you will be so happy when the things you feared the most start to push you toward your biggest goals.
Mark 9:23:23And Jesus said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be (are possible) to him who believes!
Matthew 17:20:20He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of [a] firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [[b] that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.