I love this with every drop of salt water in me! 
This has been my life motto without me even knowing it.  :)

I want a kick-drum, not a snare.  A man that arrests your soul, not strikes your nerves.  

These are the things I think about on long runs.  Especially when TH&TH is playing in my ears and a battle's playing in my mind.  

I want a kick-drum in the silence. 

Yes, Kristin, I went running and you know what running does to my heart. ;) 

My foot is throbbing!! It's uncomfortable unwrapped, it's painful wrapped.  It goes numb and feels icy. WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE. I know.  Mostly, I'm just going crazy as it's sinking in that I won't be able to run for a couple more weeks probably.  And I just bought new running shoes!  Well, truth be told I bought them several months ago, but I've had to exchange them four times to find the right size, which I just did two weeks ago!  I've been saving them to break in on the perfect sunny day.  I pictured running the hills of San Fran.  Probably not.  And when I consider all the cookies and hot chocolate I enjoyed at camp, I cringe.  I've always been the "eat the cookie - run tomorrow" sort of girl, but what if I can't run tomorrow?!! 

I can't even use my exercise ball, as it forces my ankle to extend which is the most painful movement for it.  Hmm.  We will find a way, don't you worry.  And at least it's only a matter of weeks - makes me grateful to the Lord that I've been able to enjoy the life I have.  I'm blessed indeed.

I think running opens my heart. :) 

Or maybe it just forces me to stop doing everything else for a while- and listen, and process. Whatever the case, I find it incredible that exercising makes our entire body and spirit and soul seem better- it makes us well. I find it incredible that God created us that way- to be most alive in this strange activity that combines labor, play and rest... and that there, He speaks to my heart and opens up new thoughts to my mind. 

I can let go when I run. I can trust Him. I can accept that I can't do it- but that in my weakness, He will be strong for me. 

Today, I finally got something: I am faithful, not because I am faithful. I am faithful, because He lives in me and through me- and He is faithful. 

His love never fails. So trust. He will win this battle when the day is done.