Who Are You Running For?

Let's talk VISION. Big dreams. Big goals. They take time. In the culture of instant gratification we can easily forget and push off the little wins we have every day. (How short our memories are.)

For the month of August I have been writing down in my notebook, the blessings, the miracles, and the favor we have received as a family. What a month it has been so far and yet we still have more to go. God is doing a number on me. It's humbling though not in the carnal mindset that most go to. It's divinely humbling. I'm being ripped apart daily and put back together before the sun sets and the moon shines bright.

I'm seeing patterns. There is a lot of shifting. When I started this optimal health journey several years ago, I had one perspective of what I believed it to be. It was mental health, emotional health, physical health, spiritual health and financial health. Through the ebbs and flows of the journey, each phase has been quite daunting. One would think after running over 5000 mi the physical part would be the most challenging. That is not the case. It truly is the mental and emotional due to the financial while focusing on the spiritual that has been the greatest mountain to move. There's a reason for this.

My prayers lately have been for wisdom and knowledge to be of greater service. It's not as easy to receive as one would think. However, we all understand to give is often the simplest part of it all. We can give and give and give yet when someone wants to give to us. We deny deny deny. Why is that?

I don't quite know the reason for you but I know the reason for me.

It's been challenging to receive over the years because "I can do it." "We got it!" "Let's be self-sufficient we say." From where I stand right now, those are all lies. There are things we tell ourselves to make ourselves believe that we are all we need. That is no longer true. We understand we cannot do it alone nor have we ever. It is a new season. A new leaf has turned. A new hour is upon us. Today is a day where we can honestly say "After all those years, I woke up like this."

For a long time God kept telling me to "trust him." Lately he stopped saying that and he has been saying "Use what I gave you for others." And "I created you to run for me, so run"

So I run. It's not what I'm running from. It's who I'm running for and what I'm running to. I'm sure you can relate.

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