Rise Up and Take Courage...
It's been almost two months since I posted an entry on my blog which I am pretty sure is one of the golden rules of "what not to do" as a blogger. My excuse...training for a Marathon was way more difficult than I could have ever imagined. Last January, I made a bold decision to run the Chicago Marathon. I am not really sure what I was thinking. At first it sounded like a really great decision. Earlier that year, I had been challenged by a member of my Youth Ministry Cohort to run a Marathon. That same month I had the opportunity to travel with World Vision, an organization that fights against injustice and poverty, to Mozambique, Africa to look at some clean water projects. When I found out that you could run with Team World Vision at certain marathons, and raise money for clean water, it sounded like the perfect thing. I began talking with a few of my friends, one who has a huge heart for Africa, and in January 2015, we made the decision that we would run.