Good morning my blog family of 5… We’re still growing!

Yesterday was a blast! Some really good quality time with Emily… don’t want to bore you guys… here’s a few highlights from the day.

1. Bike on Blocks:(check out this hilarious photo) Ok, so on our way to the starting line, we passed by this bike chained to a post just outside an apartment building. Some unlucky guy or gal parked their mode of transportation for the night, never suspecting that some creep would strip their wheels!

This reminded me of when I was a kid living in New York… it was a common thing to see a car up on blocks. In some areas of the city, we would even joke about getting stuck at a traffic light too long and having your car put up on blocks while you were behind the wheel! Even though I feel horrible for this poor fellow, I couldn’t stop myself from laughing OUT LOUD! (I did pray for things to work out)

2. The course was beautiful… and so was Emily! Check out the photos… my girl ran like the wind! Way to go EMILY!! Woooooohooooooooo! Wooot wooot… Oh yeah oh yeah!

The Message… I realized something about the two of us yesterday… I’m a crazy competitor and I run to BEAT PEOPLE… and Emily runs for the sheer pleasure of running! While I kept recalculating our pace about ever 30 seconds… Emily was thanking EVERY FAN for being there (even the dogs), she made friends with EVERY runner that said hello, she noticed EVERY beautiful landmark along the way, she even tried to stop SEVERAL times to talk a few runners into not quiting! I embarrassingly admit that I didn’t see a single landmark and I didn’t want to stop to talk anyone into continuing… I just kept a perfect tally of the people that we were PASSING! 

This is the way we are in life as well… thats why we’re so perfect for each other! I make sure we’re driving towards a bunch of meaningful finish lines, while she makes sure we have fun along the way! Its a perfect mixture!! So, my prayer for my growing blog family today is that every one of you would find a few friends to compliment your strengths and weaknesses! We all have a few things about us that are really dangerous until they are MIXED with the other extreme… then we are balanced out and we do life the best it can be done!

Have a super Sunday… and if you’re not doing anything, come to Destiny Family Center. If you cant make it in person, tune in online @ www.destinyfamilycenter.com