This sums up the Light at the End of the Tunnel training and the race:
"It is only through hardship, through discouragement, through exhaustion, that we learn to draw on the power of God’s Spirit within us. It is only when we come to the end of our own strength, and even then refuse to give up, that we discover God’s strength. “When we are weak, then we are strong”… Hardships make us bitter… or better. They lead us to breakdown…or to breakthrough. If we don’t give up at that breaking point when we feel we’ve reached the end of our own resources, we find a new aliveness, the life of the risen Christ rising within us."
–Brian McLaren We Make the Road By Walking
Here is what my training plan says for today:
Though I am hobbling around like an old lady today and am reminded of Wesley in Princess Bride when he is "mostly dead" and is stumbling through the castle in his attempt to rescue Buttercup,
my heart is definitely filled to the brim with gratitude! (I'm thankful I don't need a wheelbarrow today!)
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