God did it!!!

Wow! I am overwhelmed with the support from the FB world!! Thanks for the encouragement. But most of all, thanks for the prayers!!! God totally helped me Walk the Color Run and it was sooo much fun!!!! 

1. God orchestrated new friends to walk the color run together...and they are awesome!! I look forward to getting to know them more. Pics to come!

2. God gave us the perfect parking spot. I was worried to death that we would have to park a mile away. Then my 5K would have been a 7K or something crazy like that! 

3. God let me see another friend right when I got there. She was very encouraging!

4. God allowed me to walk the WHOLE TIME!!! We didn't even stop to catch our breaths! We stoped to take a pic and I grabbed some water along the way, but we never stopped and rested! I was prepared to cut through the race if I felt like I needed to!

5. God allowed me to walk it with my new fiends! They were determined to get me through the race, so they didn't walk ahead of me! This was good becuase who wants to run through color by yourself! Would have been sooo boring!

6. God allowed me to not feel unbearable pain! My left calf hurt, but other than that...no unbearable pain!

7. God allowed me to get TONS of support and prayers from FB. I knew people were watching to see God work, so I knew I couldn't give up!

8. GOD ALLOWED ME TO FINISH!!!! 

Those are just a few ways that God showed himself to me through the Color Run! It was soo fun! Next year I will have to dress up crazy! I had crazy hair, but needed a tutu and crazy socks! LOL! 

This is a new beginning for me! I'm so excited to press on to better health! Here is my verse for today and lots of pictures of the race! Thanks again for the support and prayers!!!

Confession is good for the soul...right??

I will just start with the confession: I haven't done one thing for my journey in the last 3 months. There, I said it! I thought getting back into the school routine would get me back on track, but I have been failing miserably! I know I don't have to confess to you guys, but this blog is to journal my trials, successes, and failures throughoout the journey! I want to continue to blog because God has put this journey in my heart and he will complete the journey with me! He hasn't gone anywhere. I, on the other hand, have not been faithful to continue to eat right and exercise. I haven't weighed in months, so I don't know what kind of damage I have done in the last 3 months. I am not going to stress over the numbers, but I am going to give this journey back to God because HE is the only one who can pull this off! I can't do it! That's obvious! (PSA...I don't want to take any supplements or pills!!! I'm glad many of you do and it's working!! I have tried a million things..this time around...it's gonna just be God, me, and hard work! Just had to throw that out there before I get 15 private messages about various products!)

About 6 months ago, I signed up to run my first 5K!! Well, the big day is tomorrow! I haven't been to the gym in over a month. Last time I was there I walked 1 mile...barely! Tomorrow, I willl walk 3 miles. You might be asking why. Well, I'm not a quitter or a failure! I have had Color Run written in my planner for months. Two weeks ago, I crossed it out and wrote "You are not a Failure! Move on!". I have looked at that message in my planner all week! 

If I don't walk this 5K, I am sending a message to myself, that yes, I am a failure!! No matter what I write in my planner! So, I decieded to do the race! It will be a God thing when I finish! It's supposed to be the easiest race on the planet! They don't even time you!! For me, it will be the hardest thing I have ever done....literally!!! 

I have to tell you about my answered prayer! I began to pray last week that God would give me clear direction about the race. Holly had written off herself, but I wanted to make sure God was cool with that! Well he wasn't!! Duh, he never writes us off! I had asked several people to do this race with me over the last couple of months, but nothing really panned out! About Monday, God was telling me to GO and DO IT! So he was changing my heart about the situation. The week before, a new acquaintance from church friended me on FB. I have been reading her posts for a week, and just love what she writes each day! Tuesday morning, I read her post and almost wrote on it that I am glad we are getting to know each other...etc. But, I didn't. Later that day, on FB, she said she was doing the color run on Saturday and just wanted to see if anyone out there wanted to do it with her and another friend. 

And some people say God doesn't still talk to people??? He does!!! It wasn't through a Burning Bush, a Donkey, or an Angel...it was through FaceBook!!! LOL.

So, I wrote her back and asked if I could go with them. Of course, she said yes! Four of us are going together, and I fully expect to have 3 more friends at the end of the day. Not just aquaintances!! 

People: God is so good to us!! Even when we don't deserve it!! And we never deserve it!! As you read this, please pray for a positive experience! Also pray that this spurs me on to get back on the right track physcally! 

I am posting my verse for tomorrow a day early!

So, tomorrow...whether I run, skip, walk, or crawl through the finish line...God will be there with me! In fact, he may be dragging me through the finish line!! But we will finish!! 

Of course, pics of me and my new friends will follow in a couple of days! Until then....I'm ready for the Color Run!