This week in mobile pictures. Started with a swim meet in Dublin. Long meet (which explains the swim cap on my head). Followed up with hanging out with friends before Red, White and Boom tonight. Note the Tar Heel corn hole set. Wonder who that belongs to?
You Carried Me

I stated it earlier, but I began training this week for a half marathon on August 30th. It’s been interesting to go back to the basics again and start the beginning of a training program. After completing a full marathon just a few short months ago, you would think you could just maintain that. Or not…

There have been several days since completing the full marathon that I look back and wonder how in the heck I did that. I am quickly reminded that it was not “I” who did it. Matter of fact, “I” had nothing to do with it. Much like most of my life, I was carried through that. Much like most of my life, it is surreal in looking back at it. Looking back at a race and my life are so similar. So often I have been carried through times I cannot explain today.

As I labored recently through a run the song “You Carried Me” by Building 429 came on my iPod. I felt my spirits lift a bit as the words reminded me that running has nothing to do with who I am or what I do. I am able to stand, walk, run, sprint because God allows me one more day to do so. Anything I achieve in life is not through my own purpose or power. There is a far greater strength at work that deserves the honor, respect and credit I so often fail to mention.

You carried me, you carried me

you carried me through it all

and I believe, yes I believe

you’ll carry me all the way home

-Building 429

Still, quite possibly the most memorable singing of our National Anthem.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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— The Declaration of Independence
This is what weekends looked like at our house when the kids were just babies….
“Ten Simple Rules” by MercyMe. My son has this song on his “Hoop Dawgs” DVD. The kids love it and it’s a great way to remember the 10 Commandments. You can find this on the MercyMe CD “10”.
Until they come home…remember our Independence doesn’t come free.

My girls just being my girls…
What my next 9 weeks looks like. Training for half marathon on August 30th.
What my next 9 weeks looks like. Training for half marathon on August 30th.
"Our dreams, the ones God places inside us, are a foretaste of our destiny. But there is a danger of wanting that dream so badly that you’re willing to sacrifice your character. God will never sacrifice who you are for what you can accomplish. We are in danger when “getting there” becomes the most important thing to us. Even when you have the right dream, you can make the wrong choices…..The way to live out your God-given dreams is to become the person God desires you to be."
— Erwin McManus from the book “Wide Awake”
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