"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12.1-3

in the fall, we were two miserable students sitting in anthropology class attempting to occupy the lecture time with anything but what the professor wanted to say so, we began reading a blog. it's the story of libby ryder and her battle against cancer. since september, God has used libby's story to awaken in us a realization of the story he has written for our own lives. libby has shown us what it means to set our eyes on Jesus and run, with reckless abandonment, into the arms of the Father. libby's friend angie has decided to run a half marathon in celebration of the end of libby's chemo and, lord willing, her cancer. following libby's example, we are joining in the celebration. we. are. not. runners. we are scared. we are full of doubts. but, we are inspired. the past year has been full of triumphs and tribulations for us, too. this is a physical representation of us throwing off everything that has hindered and entangled- pain, heartache, doubt, shame- and running to Jesus and basking in his grace. this run is for libby. this run if for freedom. our only hope is that He will be glorified.

"Let us hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have broken rejoice!" Psalm 51.8

Monday, April 4, 2011

on to the next one.

seven was completed. one.two.three.four.five.six.seven.  [those numbers seems much further apart when running]  and sunday we will run eight. then nine. then ten. then 13.1.

in 26 days, we will run 13.1 miles. 

that blows my mind. and kind of scares me that its so soon. i have been a little discouraged and nervous about it all. is this really going to be possible? we haven't done too good at keeping up with our schedule.  life gets busy and we really haven't had much time to run together in the past couple of weeks which isn't fun.  i hate days when we have to run by ourselves. not fun. but something felt good about yesterday. [not really my body] but after the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th mile (ha) i felt like i found this new motivation.  there has always been a lot of "mind" motivation and things to run for from day 1 but not really physical motivation, my body doesn't die to run by any means. and not that i am dieing to run 4.5 miles tomorrow but im excited and i think physically motivated for once.  and i hope that it will stay until april 29th. i don't think ill need much on the morning of april 30th, in nashville, with the ryders, with team libby, with julia and laney next to me, with our safety green tshirts and wristbands, with my mom and sister [hopefully] at the finish line. [that wasn't to guilt trip you into coming mom and linds :) ] it gives me chills just thinking about it. maybe ill even run it twice. ha just kidding.

something im excited about:
i think one of my favorite qualities about julia is her passion. especially when its passion for jesus. i love it and it is such an encouragement. prayer was really laid upon her heart yesterday so before we ran, she had the idea of writing peoples names on our hands to pray for as we ran and it was great.  we wrote each other's and lib's and friends names. and then on the last mile i had this crazy idea of dedicating each mile of the race to a hindrance that we are throwing off or someone we love that needs prayer.  and we can write all thirteen of those on our arms the morning of the race and really pray specifically for something on each mile.  so i am going to start working on that list and praying about that list. but im excited because i think it will be great.


something to be praying for:
i have bad hips. i feel like an old lady saying that but i really do feel like i already need two hip replacements and im 19.  i think i injured them during soccer in high school and they just have never really healed. and they haven't bothered me too bad until mile 7 yesterday. and then this morning, they were very angry at me. i am really bad at doing the hip exercises that the doctor gave me to do months ago [meaning i haven't done one day of them] so i really should start doing those, even though im not sure how much help it will do in 26 days.  but now im scared for race day.  that they will hurt on 7 and i will have 6 more miles to go. so pray against that and pray for protection against injury for the both of us until race day and for race day. because it would suck so much and i would cry for days if one of us couldn't run. 


thanks for reading, supporting, praying, and loving.  its much easier when you have people standing beside you.
-han 
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