WWJD

It was a warmish day towards the end of May and the academy I was working at was having a huge concert in town. Parents from all over the state of Washington would be coming to hear their children perform at a church in downtown Spokane. It had been a long day, waking up at 5:30 and working until the afternoon and than riding back and forth from the school to Spokane 2 or 3 times, dropping off kids at the church so they could practice has away of exhausting you. I was tired, hungry, and ready for the day to be over.

Finally we arrived at the church with several hours until the concert would start so I had time to kill. I walked out one of the side doors and headed towards taco bell as I exited I almost tripped over a homeless guy sleeping on the side walk right outside the church. Before this year I had always lived in areas where seeing the homeless is rare, I had seen and walked past homeless people before without a thought and this time was no different.

I came back from Taco Bell about 45 minutes later full, satisfied, ready for the Concert. The homeless guy was still there, still a little ways away I observed parents, staff, faculty, students entering and leaving the Church looking and than walking around this guy who had chosen the outside of a inner city church as his resting place.

As I was observing all these things in the back of my mind this thought popped into my head, "Where would Jesus be if he happened to be here today, inside or outside the Church?" And that was it, as I got closer I tried to figure out what I should do and than I decided to do nothing. 

Its Not Just a Sprint

On Sunday November 11 2013 I ran in my very first Triathlon. On this blog I will refuse to down play my success. I had a personal best that day, for a moment in time I was a champion, despite all of the other failures I have made in my life for a second it felt wonderful to know that I had proven myself wrong. Yes I can do something right, no I'm not some fat,dumb, loser who can't decide what she wants to do with her life. It felt so wonderful to complete something that few others have done before and even though I struggled I completed the entire course, I didn't give up.

Later on I will describe in detail the race but tonight I needed to remind myself that I can do something right, that day I made it to the finish line.