8 Mile

Finally. 8.

I ran at home this past weekend with Trisha and Scott, and all I can say is running in Wilmington is a PIECE OF CAKE compared to my training in Chapel Hill!! I am SO thankful and so happy that I'm getting closer and closer to my goal each day, and in the process discovering the potential that God has for me. I always said that I couldn't run and that I would never be a runner, yet here I am a few months later and I am nothing short of a long distance runner :) God has knocked down the walls that I built around myself and has shown me that I am beyond anything that I believe I am. When I am found in Him, I can achieve anything in the entire world.

The past week has been rough thus far, and I have not been running since I came back from Labor Day weekend. I passed me first two major exams in nursing school though for the fall semester, so I am singing God's praises day and night for His deliverance. I now no longer question whether or not nursing was in God's plan for me. Nursing is written all over my heart and I just can not wait to pour out my life into my patients. I want my career to be such an incredible ministry and I want to be able to show God's love and grace to all I encounter in my nursing career.

Anyways, I tend to get on tangents when I'm really happy about my mileage. I'm also super happy because I found a wonderful Bible study tonight that I am really going to try to commit to and just pour my heart into over the next year.

In His arms of grace,

C.