Sometimes life is just painful....Today is one of those days for me. I have been training for close to 5 months now for the Half Marathon Flying Pig in Cincy and today - two weeks before the race - I may have a stress fracture in my foot.
I don't get it...I have always been athletic before and done well, I don't break bones. But here I am, so close to accomplishing this great endeavor in my life, and the rug is being yanked out from under me. I'm mad, I'm upset...I am hurt, I am sad. I am a whole conglomerate of things, but mostly I have to be thankful. It could be worse. I might be able to rest for the next two weeks and be okay on race day. I might not. (I am gonna give it my best for sure though)
Through it all though - We only need to ask one question: Is this what God wants? God is going to use me no matter what...Perhaps, He will use me through healing my foot. Perhaps he will use me through the attitude I portray in the next two weeks. God doesn't tell us He will meet all of our hopes and desires...Sometimes he just says No. You don't get to see the fruit of your labor, but does that call us to labor less the next time? Not at all. It just calls us to labor harder, and harder. We might never see the results, I might never cross my finish line, but God will know the work I put into it, He will know whether I obeyed or not. It's not about winning, it's not about crossing that line, it is truly about the preparation and endurance of the whole.
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