Sunday, March 16, 2014

Running is My Happy Place

 
It's hard to believe that running wasn't a big part of my life before this past August, sure we flirted a few times in the past but for one reason or another we never got serious.  But now, now I have a hard time picturing life without it.

My new job, well it's time consuming and I am in my car a lot with nothing to do but think.  I think a lot about how time driving from one central Massachusetts town to the next could be spent with my running shoes on working up a sweat.  I had been guilted into skipping out on the gym so much these last few weeks that my workouts were really suffering and the time I did spend at the gym I felt so guilty that I couldn't get any respectable work out in.  I decided that something had to change.  I needed a goal to work for, I needed to treat my workouts like I treat my appointments for work, they go in my book and no matter how badly I don't want to go, I go.  I went over to pinterest and found my half marathon training schedule and wrote the workouts in my calendar. Now I have a goal.

I don't have a half marathon coming up and haven't even looked into singing up for one other than the race in the fall but I think the training for that will be easier if I am used to running for more than 4 miles at a time.

So far having the workout scheduled is really helping, on Thursday at about 8:45PM I was finishing up my phone calls in the office and realized I still had to get in my three miles!  Crap, I had eaten my weight in Five Guys fries and a bacon burger for lunch and still had my hour commute home at 9.  It sucked.  I got home and made myself put on my gym clothes and then procrastinated....a lot.  But I got it done, I think it posted to RunKeeper at 11PM.  Hey, I got it done!

This July I am running The Run to Home Base which is a fundraiser for the Red Sox Foundation and homebase.org and helps fund research and awareness for TBI and PTSD, obviously something very near to my heart (and the Red Sox...HELLO - I get to round the bases at Fenway, get out of town!).  I had to commit to raising $750 before the race in July so I will be asking for help.  Here is the link to my fundraising page.  (http://www.runtohomebase.org/2014RunToHomeBase/AmberSnow) If you can please donate, I will do a full post on this soon and would love the help of the blogging community to not only reach but demolish my goal so if anyone wants to let me guest post about it to reach your readers that would be amazing.  But more on that later.  For now I am just excited to be registered and hopefully by then 9K will be like a warm up run for me.

3 comments:

  1. IS BAPTISM AN OUTWARD SIGN? YES!

    Is water baptism an outward sign of an inward grace? Yes, in order to accept God's free gift of salvation men must be immersed in water.

    Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

    The outward sign is the immersion in water. The inward grace is the forgiveness of sins we receive by following the command of Jesus to be baptized in water. There is no inward grace granted until men are immersed in water baptism. Baptism is not a sign that we have already been saved. Baptism is a sign that believers in Christ are being saved.

    1 Peter 3:20-21 ....safely through the water. 21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you---not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience---through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

    The outward sign is water baptism. The inward grace is that baptism saves through an appeal to God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If men do not confess Jesus as Lord and Savior, believe that He is the Son of God and believe that God raised Him from the dead, and make the commitment to turn from sin and turn to God, then, of course your baptism will not save you. Baptism is the final step before receiving forgiveness of sins. Water baptism is the point that the blood of Jesus washes away your sins.

    Colossians 2:12-13 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your transgression and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

    The outward sign is being buried with Jesus in the watery grave of baptism. The inward grace is being made spiritually alive with Christ, having our transgressions forgiven. We are dead in our transgression before we are buried with Christ in water baptism. We are made alive and have our transgressions forgiven after baptism, not before.

    Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

    The outward sign is water baptism. The inward grace is being clothed with Christ. You are not baptized into Christ because you have already been clothed with Christ. The clothing does not precede, being baptized into Christ.

    Mark 16:16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

    The outward sign is water baptism. The inward grace of salvation follows believing and being baptized in water.

    THERE ARE TWO OUTWARD SIGNS

    1. CONFESSION: Romans 10:9-10 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

    The outward sign is confession. The inward grace is salvation.

    2. WATER IMMERSION: Mark 16:16....has been baptized shall be saved...

    The outward sign is baptism. The inward grace is salvation.

    IS WATER BAPTISM AN OUTWARD SIGN OF AN INWARD GRACE? YES, BUT WITHOUT THE OUTWARD SIGN OF BAPTISM NO INWARD GRACE OCCURS.


    What must I do to be saved? FAITH John 3:16 REPENTANCE Acts 2:38 CONFESSION Romans 10:9-10 BAPTISM Mark 16:16

    (All Scripture quotes from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)

    ReplyDelete
  2. AMAZING TESTIMONY.....Hi am ROSE from From USA,After being in relationship with him for 9years,he broke up with me, I did everything possible to bring him back but all was in vain, I wanted him back so much because of the love I have for him, I begged him with everything, I made promises but he refused. I explained my problem to someone online and she suggested that I should rather contact a spell caster that could help me cast a spell to bring him back but I am the type that never believed in spell, I had no choice than to try it, I mailed the spell caster, and he told me there was no problem that everything will be okay before three days, that my ex will return to me before three days, he cast the spell and surprisingly in the second day, it was around 4pm. My ex called me, I was so surprised, I answered the call and all he said was that he was so sorry for everything that happened, that he wanted me to return to him, that he loves me so much. I was so happy and went to him, that was how we started living together happily again and we finally got married and today we are blessed with 2 kids.. Since then, I have made promise that anybody I know that have a relationship problem, I would be of help to such person by referring him or her to the only real and powerful spell caster trusted and tested,who is not after your money,thou i was scam by some fake spell caster before i came across Dr Kokori,who finally helped me with my own problem and who is different from all the fake ones out there. Anyone could also need the help of the spell caster for CURE TO PROBLEM LIKE ,CHILD BARENESS, PROTECTION, GOOD JOB,PROMOTION, EX LOVER BACK, ,LOTTERY SPELL,JACKPOT win on either a scratch off ticket, MONEY VOODOO SPELLS, CONTACT Dr Kokori today and all your problem will be over,his
    Email;drkokorispellhome@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete
  3. AMAZING TESTIMONY.....Hi am ROSE from From USA,After being in relationship with him for 9years,he broke up with me, I did everything possible to bring him back but all was in vain, I wanted him back so much because of the love I have for him, I begged him with everything, I made promises but he refused. I explained my problem to someone online and she suggested that I should rather contact a spell caster that could help me cast a spell to bring him back but I am the type that never believed in spell, I had no choice than to try it, I mailed the spell caster, and he told me there was no problem that everything will be okay before three days, that my ex will return to me before three days, he cast the spell and surprisingly in the second day, it was around 4pm. My ex called me, I was so surprised, I answered the call and all he said was that he was so sorry for everything that happened, that he wanted me to return to him, that he loves me so much. I was so happy and went to him, that was how we started living together happily again and we finally got married and today we are blessed with 2 kids.. Since then, I have made promise that anybody I know that have a relationship problem, I would be of help to such person by referring him or her to the only real and powerful spell caster trusted and tested,who is not after your money,thou i was scam by some fake spell caster before i came across Dr Kokori,who finally helped me with my own problem and who is different from all the fake ones out there. Anyone could also need the help of the spell caster for CURE TO PROBLEM LIKE ,CHILD BARENESS, PROTECTION, GOOD JOB,PROMOTION, EX LOVER BACK, ,LOTTERY SPELL,JACKPOT win on either a scratch off ticket, MONEY VOODOO SPELLS, CONTACT Dr Kokori today and all your problem will be over,his
    Email;drkokorispellhome@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete