Get Out The Pom Poms

When I was a teenager, I participated in the sports cross country and track. As an adult, I have participated in some running events with the husband as he really enjoys the sport.

About the middle of the run, I get what I call the "back to the barn" syndrome.

That is what happens when you have taken your horse out for a trail ride and when you turn the animal around to go back home, they become alive with a bouncy, tap dancing footwork because they know, they are heading back to the barn! I have found myself doing this in my runs. I did as a teenager and I still do it now. When I know we are at the halfway point, I will automatically pick up the pace, because I want to go back home!

But knowing you're going home isn't the only thing that promotes more speed. Running a race is hard work. Its hard physically and if you can't connect your emotional side to keep your physical side moving, you fall apart and quit. We all need what we call cheerleaders. No, they do not have to have real pom pom's and bells.

The pom pom's and bells are those people that tell us, "you can do this!" or "keep it up, you're almost there!" or "great job!".

It's the final roar of the crowd and when it comes down to us or another contestant, we fight with every piece of muscle we have and find more we didn't know existed to propel us to the finish line. With the finish line in sight, the cheer of the spectators, we cross that finish line knowing we did our best. That is all, we can ask of ourselves. To do our best!

It's been a hard run with our businesses, now in ministry, and everything else we stack on the top. Much harder than any either me or my husband thought it would be and no one is sure where the finish line exactly is. Both my husband and I fight fatigue and try to reserve hope for pointing our children, too.

We have many people now cheering us on- encouraging us and letting us know that us running our race of life is important to the Kingdom of God. Thank you Lord for sending them.

We are putting in all our effort and we are training, and then completing many different legs of our life's run. (More affectionately addressed as seasons). What matters most isn't whether or not we fail, it will have been have we said yes to what the Lord is asking us to do. Who cares what our ability is and was, did we do what God asked us to do?

The pom pom's are out!

We are doing our best. That's what the Lord wants. He knows we can't do perfection. He just wants us to say yes and do our best.

~Prudence