Found You!


When I run I use my phone to keep track of my running. Before it can log the info about my run, it first must find me (my location). Sometimes I am moving or there may be something in the area that interferes with the signal and the ability to find me.

As is in our lives...many times we allow distractions to distance us from God. Where did he go? He never leaves us and as soon as we STOP and listen we will hear His still small voice. This changes our perspective and we are then able to move forward!

So this morning...I got to the starting point of my run...I stopped and within a few seconds the application found my location and then I hit start and headed off on my run!

Remember when you can't seem to find God...STOP and LISTEN and you will hear Him!

Analogy-One Step at a Time

I got up late this morning and was really debating with myself whether or not I was going to run, but if there is one thing I have learned while training for this marathon is your mind must tell your body to keep going even when your body wants to stop…so I could find no logical reason not to run this morning…so I ran. The first part of my run is mostly uphill…some hills are smaller than others, but it is generally uphill…I was looking right in front of me and just telling myself to take one more step…then one more step…made it through all the hills and as I was coming around the corner by Rampart where you can see the expanse of the mountains the song “God of this City” started playing…Yes… you are God of this City and you are going to do amazing things, as we take one step at a time! Then I continued running…looking way ahead of myself I started running with all the confidence in the world, as I was now going to be on level ground or even some downhill, but then God brought an analogy to mind and that was that so many times in our lives we call on Him when life is hard and we can barely take one step forward, but then when things are going good, we go about life thinking we have this well under control…He wants to guide our every step the easy ones and the hard runs…so for the remainder of the run, I ran looking just one step in front of me and I had the best run yet since I started my training...in fact I even beat my yesterday’s record…my new pace is not 11.33, but 11.14-Thank you Jesus for reminding me to allow you to guide every step in my life!

We Fall Down and We Get Up…

Before leaving on my run this morning, I asked God to reveal whatever He wanted me to hear today! He has been teaching me different life lessons through my running and today was no different, though it would have been nice to learn this lesson without it being so literal! I was about 3 minutes into my run, when I recall my phone leaving my hand and I slowly began to get closer to the cement…I actually had a moment to think about what was happening and what ran through my mind was…I am falling and there is really nothing I can do to stop this from happening…at that moment my knee scraped against the cement and my wrist did the same. I got up and my first thought was…well guess that does it for my run this morning…Really Cindy, you are going to give up that quickly…so I checked out my injuries, squirted some water on them and I finished my run, asking God to just help me finish…He did that and more…He taught me another life lesson…In life we will fall down, but He is right there to pick us back up. In 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 it says, “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.” When you get knocked down…don’t let the enemy have his way…allow God to get you back up!


Evidence of my lesson today....