Take me in

"Take me past the outer courts into the Holy place, past the blazing alter, Lord I want to see your face. Take me past the crowds of people, the priest who sings your praise, I hunger and thirst for your righteousness, but it's only found in one place. Take me in to the holy of holies, take me in by the blood of the lamb." Take me in, Kutless

There is another reason I've been running so much. I think I'm running to get closer to God. Yeah, go ahead and laugh, but it's true. I want to burn my butt and my soul!!

Gold goes through the fire to be made pure. When it emerges from the fiery pits, cruddy black specks of imperfection sinks and what you are left with is bright shiny yellow gold. A beautiful thing.
You have to get hot. You have to burn. You have to suffer a little...to shine.

I am not perfect. But I am willing to walk through the fire to become more like Christ.

Today I ran Westville Trail. I could go into today's run, but I won't because Saturday was much more interesting.

The day before (Saturday the 16th) we were at the cabin and I ran down to the lake. This time I ran across the levee thinking it would reach back to the street. It did...almost. First I had to walk across a few rocks (more like 25) and hope I wouldn't fall into the creek.
Once I reached the other side, I found a trail. The trail lead me up a dusty hillside. Ahh, finally the street. Except it wasn't the street I thought it was going to be. I kept running. You can't really get lost here. But the realized I was getting further and further away from the lake. Our cabin is somewhere on the other side...
So everytime I came to another street, I just turned right. After 3 turns I arrived back at the lake. Thank goodness!

Have to go now, swim team in 30 minutes.