NOVEMBER 23,
2008 ~ ZERO MILES TO FIVE MILES ~ YIKES!
I have to confess
I have not been doing my mid-week runs.
Today's TNT run was 5 miles. Yup, my
muscles are paying the price for that.
Must come up with a mid-week running plan and
stick to it. I am making a new
Team-n-Training friend, Colleen, who lives near
by. I hope to do some mid-week runs with
her.
TOUCHING STORY
~ Of a little girl who collects beads; one
bead for each time she has a cancer treatment,
or a hospital stay, or a medical procedure.
The Mother shared the astonishingly long string
of beads (2 of them actually) with TNT runners.
They represent an incredible collective amount
of both suffering illness and persevering hope.
Though I am not Catholic, in my heart, I counted
it the most authentic Rosary I'd ever witnessed.
A sacred prayer chain connecting heaven and
earth to be certain.
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Praise the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his
benefits-
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who forgives all your sins
and heals all your
diseases,
4
who redeems your life from the
pit
and crowns you with love
and compassion,
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NOVEMBER 17,
2008 ~ BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!
I have begun the
TNT Training Runs at Gallup Park on Saturday
mornings. Right knee is holding it's own.
I am very encouraged. Such an amazing team
of people lead this; each one ~ Emily, Sarah,
Eon, Ted, Carolyn, Others ~ are so gifted, so
dedicated, so special.
Apart from the
new reality check that I am going to be running
outside in the &^%$^ cold weather all Winter (I
really must have lost my mind somewhere!), I am
really glad I signed up for this. The
runners in training each have their own journey;
each journey a story of the endearing
preciousness of the value of a day; the value of
a life.
QUOTE
(from a Father who lost his 14 year old son)
"If you
are a child and you loose your parents, you
are an orphan. If you are a wife and
loose your husband, you are a widow; or a
husband a widower. But we don't have a
word for a parent who looses a child.
It is a lost too indescribable for words."
NOVEMBER 7,
2008 ~ 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF LARRY'S PASSING
My favorite name
for God is "Redeemer". For me, it is the
way in which I experience God the most. He
takes all my sins, mistakes, trials, pain and
sufferings, and works them to good ~ Redeems ~
them/me.
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Now I
run. For the hope set before us
that there will be some redeeming value
this side of heaven in Larry Carlton
Morris' passing three years ago from
melanoma cancer, after our short 16
months of marriage.
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Now I
run. God has given me to run for a
purpose, for Him, and for something
greater than myself. Thank you
Lord. May it be that His healing
will is accomplished for Adam and for so
many others suffering with cancer and
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Now I have a
Team-n-Training webpage that you can use to
support all this with your donations.
OCTOBER 29,
2008 ~ INVITATION TO TEAM-N-TRAINING
I've been
pondering the invitation I received from the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Michigan Chapter
of "Team
in Training" (TNT) ....["Saving Lives One
Mile At A Time"] ~also, the prayer request I
received from "Dr. Dom" (Domenic Tamborriello ,
MSW) seeking God's healing for 5 year old Adam
Stafford Guerriero, in Mott Children's Hospital
diagnosed with Leukemia.
TNT bills
themselves as "the world's largest endurance
sports training program. For more than 20 years,
over 360,000 people from beginners to seasoned
athletes, have trained with the Team to run or
walk a full or half marathon, complete a 100
mile bike ride or triathlon. As they train,
participants raise funds to help find cures for
cancer, bringing help and hope to thousands of
Leukemia and Lymphoma patients and their
caregivers."
I went to their information meeting, but when I
found out I needed to raise $3,400 I thought "I
can't do this! That is waaaaay too large a
commitment for me. I'm going to have to
find some other way to keep my running going."
Then the Lord reminded me "I gave you Adam".
~ GULP! ~ I thought all the more of Adam
Stafford Guerriero and his family, of Larry
Morris and so many others. How could I not
step out in faith and trust God one more time
for His healing will and His ability to
accomplish things greater than I can?
I signed up for the "Country Music Marathon and
Half Marathon", Nashville TN, April 25, 2009. I
committed to raise $3,400 or personally pay any
shortfall. I went back to my car and
wondered what on earth I had just done.
But as I sat with that fear (F-False,
E-Evidence, A-Appearing, R-Real) and prayed; it
began to just lift off me. No epiphanies,
no promises of God, just ... peace ...
true inner peace ... filled me, and I knew I had
done the right thing, no matter how it turns
out.
2 Corinthians 5:7
We live by faith, not by sight.
OCTOBER 26,
2008 ~ MARINE CORP MARATHON DAY
It's
Marine Corp Marathon day!
I didn't make it to run the Marine Corp Marathon
with my Marine daughter, Staff Sgt. Alexandra
Perkins, because my right knee took issue with
me at about the 15 mile training point.
Still, I am so deeply grateful to YOU for
helping me get as far as I did. THANK YOU for
all your loving support, encouragements,
coaching, and cheering on! I am so much better
for it! YOU have so strengthened me!!
NEW GOAL: Heal my knee, stay the course but add
in leg strengthening cross training, and yet run
my first Marathon ~ The Detroit Free Press
Marathon 2009. Stay tuned and keep praying! I
clearly need your prayers.
Bless you!! I so thank God for you!!!
My love and prayers ~ Sherry
