Rainy Day Run

It’s about one month away from the half marathon and we were supposed to do our 11 mile run, but with the rain, and doing it after work the run did not go well. At about mile 7, Kate’s foot started to really hurt and her breathing was off. I wasn’t in the mood to run and in the end we only ran about 8 miles; however, we ran it a lot better than 2 weeks ago. But the thing is, the day was rough because when you have a bad run it can be discouraging, but in reality it’s just a bad run, and whether it’s race day or not, in the end the fact that we are running this far is really good. And we’ll try it again next week.
On Wednesday I went to a men’s small group/bible study, and the group leader talked about how when he delivers a message at service it can be really difficult to deliver a home run speech, he wished that sometimes delivering a good message would be good enough. I think sometimes we hold our standards too high, or maybe I should say high goals, and high standards are great as long as we are willing to admit that we aren’t perfect, but that we are still valuable.
It’s kind of like our relationship with God. We may have not so great days, we may sin, but as long as we go back to God and strive to have a relationship with him there we won’t be failures.