Momma' Don't Worry...

All I've ever wanted was to be accepted. ;P

The email made it real, but after finishing a run yesterday & checking the mail, finding this little postcard inside just made my day. 

Yesterday I ran to the voting booth after finishing work early. The faces of the women who volunteer to assist voters were priceless when I walked through the door. They all thought I was crazy in what they deemed my "shorty-shorts" when relaying the story to my husband upon his arrival to vote. The cute, little older ladies told him how they were all in the hall talking to each other about how cold it was inside of the building yesterday (48-50 degrees), and in I come with my stocking hat, t shirt & shorts. 

One of the sweet, little ladies asked me what I was training for & I told her how I qualified for the Boston Marathon, which scared her, and created the same face I see on my mom when I talk about the marathon coming next April. This woman at the voting booth, asked me if I was afraid, after the bombing on April 15, 2013. I am not afraid, I think that the idea will always be looming on every marathoner's mind running on Patriots' Day, but I think as Americans, running the world's oldest annual marathon, after such a catastrophe shows strength and patriotism, and I think of Tom Petty's song, Won't Back Down. 

My mom is nervous and has told me she didn't want me to run it before I was ever accepted or it was ever a thought. I am in God's hands and I'll be doing something I've dreamed of accomplishing for the past 6 years, never thinking it would be something I'd actually have the ability to do. Many tell me I shouldn't, I know there are downsides to running 3 marathons in my life, ...but I just gotta'. This will be my last one, (HUSBAND, Mom & Dad I promise), and then I'll probably change over to strictly biking for cardio.

I always think of the bible verse referencing how God takes care of the birds, Matthew 6:26-34:

"26 Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. 

27 You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. 

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don't work or make clothes for themselves. 

29 But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. 

30 God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don't have so little faith! 

31 Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' 

32 The people who don't know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. 

33 The thing you should want most is God's kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you. 

34 So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own."