You're Almost There

So the couch potato to 5k is tough, but I am getting there. I can run about 2 miles without stopping on a regular basis now. I have even run 2.5 on a few occasions. I have not pushed the last couple of weeks of the training, but I do know that I am running regularly-good excercise-and I am getting more fit. I broke the 190 barrier this week, and it feels good. That takes care of the physical. I am almost there....

Mentally, I am in a good spot. I am learning a ton about urban education and what that really means on the ground, not on paper somewhere in some legislator's office. Not in some suburbian dream. On the ground. I think I am getting ready to mentally be a full time urbanite. This school year has given me some foundations and groundwork that was much needed to allow me to have the mental capacity to be from "the city." I am almost there....

Now onto the spiritual. The last year and a half has been the most powerful of my life. I now understand that tapping into the holy spirit is not something you do on the weekends, it is a lifestyle that you choose to select, or choose to delete. If you are not reading the bible, spending time to "Be still and know that I am the Lord", you can not access the power, grace, and mercy that is free for the taking from our Creator. As I ran my miles yesterday, I pondered the incredible job that only God could have dreamed up, the relationship with my wife that God has deepened, the love I have for my children that continues to grow, the complexities of the next steps in moving to nyc, and I heard God say to me: "Almost there." I pray that God will continue to reveal to me my iniquities, my shortcomings, and my desparate need for His grace.

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