FREEDOM!!!!!

my last long run before the big race. One week from right now I will about halfway finished with the marathon. Today was six miles. Today was a good run. Today I experienced freedom and it surprised me. I have written about that hill at the end of almost every run. I talked about how I said God is my conqueror and how he said that back to me that I am His conqueror. That hill always gets me and I'm usually talking to it telling it how I'm going to conquer it. OR I'm telling myself..."I can do this" or at least recognizing the hill or paying attention it coming up...usually SOMETHING. But today I became free from that hill. I was almost to the top of it when I realized I was not even conscious that I was running up a hill. My muscles didn't hurt, I wasn't out of breath, but I was at the top of the hill. FREEDOM!!!!!

Freedom from that hill has taken many, many runs up it and other hills bigger than it. It has taken sweat and probably some tears. It has taken time and time again running up it and telling it that I am a conqueror. It has taken time. Freedom is available. Freedom is ours. Freedom takes time, sweat and tears. But it's coming. Don't give up run your race with purpose and know that freedom will come and sometimes you won't even know it's coming.