So, it's now May 23rd. Friday in the year 2008. This morning I ran 1 mile. That was my fourth consecutive day of running a mile. Prior to that I was running 1/8th of a mile, yet didn't realize it was that much. :) So, I'd say it's been approximately 3 weeks since I started running. I've lost 4 lbs.. I weighed two days ago. I have a bit of a phobia with weighing. :(

My son called me 'skinny' yesterday before he left for his 4 day weekend vacation. I told him I could feel it, but the scales only showed 4 lbs. He said that the rest was muscle built up and that my legs looked really toned. That was nice to hear.

I still don't really know how to introduce the dream I had a couple of years ago. Each day lately I have finally 'seen' God in this thing. It's so not just about running...it's about pressing on and fighting for what you want deep in your heart. It's about God speaking a word of revelation to you, whether it be only an intimate heart conversation with Him, a dream He gives you or through the confirmation of a word from someone else...and it's about holding onto that word even when the storms come and everything seems to have been washed away... though it seems that it is lost in the waves in the sea somewhere.. God is bigger than the waves and He is bigger than the sea. He can retrieve a dream from any washed up storm.

Sometimes that dream doesn't come the way we think it should. Sometimes the whole stinkin' thing seems sooo messed up. After waiting and waiting when it comes... it comes as an absolute that it could have only come by the Hand of God. Sometimes.. that's why we wait. And we wait... and we wait. It's for the greater glory. I feel as though one area of my life has been cheated soo soo much... but just recently... in this running I am seeing His glory coming to fruition in it. I've wanted to taste it for way too many years... and I'm beginnig to taste the fruit. I'm looking forward to tasting the fullness of the ripened fruit. Or maybe, just maybe I am, but I've been too jilted to even let myself just bask in what is there...maybe it is full already.

My foot is doing fairly well with this running, but I am starting to feel some tension in my knees. Though my insides yearn to run at least a half mile more soon... I know I need to wait... wait... and just let my body deal with the miracle of 1 mile a day. :)

Thank You Lord... for 'the dream' and for all the things you've birthed in my heart and how You have shown Yourself Faithful and True at the end of each waiting.

Love, anne :)