Beat...

I am so glad that tomorrow is Friday.  I'm even happier that it'll be a 3 day weekend.  I haven't had a bad week, I've just really been feeling the effects of working out everyday.  The soreness I can ignore, that was minimal.  The blisters I can band-aid up, those are minor.  The bad knee is obnoxious, but I can wear my brace.  But at 6:45 on Thursday night, post workout, I am feeling beat, exhausted, dead tired!  I know that if I keep on I'll eventually get over this part of the workout and the benefits will be rewarding.  I still can't believe that last year I ran a 5k.  I feel so far away from being able to do that now.

OK behind me in the hat and JF my running partner throwing up the UT horns.
Komen for the Cure 5K, I completed in 33 minutes

Now it's 11:45pm, I just got home.  We had small group tonight from 7:30-9:45 and then decided to grab a late night snack before heading home.  Our subject revolved around how we can get past ourselves to help those around us.  We focused on Galatians 5:13-15 "You, my brothers, were called to be free.  But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.  The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love you neighbor as yourself".  If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other".
This is a powerful verse.  It reminds us that hurting each other ultimately hurts us, but that by building each other up and helping our neighbors we will benefit greatly from this.  We need to learn what our God given gifts are and use them.  My husband knows his gift, he's an amazing singer!  Truly and honestly God granted him a wonderful voice and a humble attitude to go with it.  I told him tonight that I am still trying to figure out what my gift is.  He promptly stated that my gift is that I'm organized.  I want to scoff at this because I am continually reorganizing things to try to make it work better and I don't feel that this constitutes as a God given gift.  I guess I always think of these gifts as things such as singing or having a desire to do volunteer work or being crafty by nature....etc.  I never thought of being an organized person as being a gift.  Now if only I could figure out how to put my organization to use for God.
Can I also point out that God's timing is perfect.  Seriously we just finished a four week sermon on figuring out and following our dreams, now tonights topic of discussion involves using our gifts to help others, and the book I requested and received from BookSneeze is Max Lucado's Out Live Your Life. Which discusses how "we are given a choice...an opportunity to make a big difference during a difficult time.  What if we did?  What if we rocked the world with hope?"...It seems like everything right now is pointing me towards learning my God given gift and finding a way to use it.  Prayer for that will follow!
In the meantime I will listen to more Nichole Nordeman-Brave!  I hope everyone has a blessed night!