I went running today, right?  While there a couple things happened.  The first:

I heard a low rumble of a motorcycle, but it didn't sound like it was coming from the road... I turned around, and it was just a bicycle behind me.  Poor sucker, I thought...his bike is falling apart.  After he cycled ahead of me, his thumb his the GAS and his BICYCLE took off!!!  CRAZINESS!  He most definitely rigged his bicycle into a motorcycle!  haha, how awesome is that??  I was..and am..slightly jealous.

Second:

This lady...an older lady probably in her 40's-50's...she was running behind me at quite the fast speed..and you know how you just don't like to be passed when you're running?  Well..my goal was to finish my 10 miles (woohoo!)...and then my goal was to finish my 10 miles without her passing me.  For her to pass me would mean she would have to catch up a mile.  Well.....she didn't pass me.  But she most definitely caught up.  As soon as I finished I went to the water fountain, and she finished right behind me.  WHOA.  That's one fast lady!  I figured she trained for something awesome. Turns out... she ran the same marathon I am going to run! 

Here's the catch...she ran that marathon within 24 hours of running ANOTHER marathon.  Marathon #1: 3 hr. 30 min.  Disney Marathon #2: 4 hr. 27. min.  She was pleased, she said.  PLEASED???  I'm going to be pleased to FINISH, haha.  She said she'd look me up online to see how I did on the results page.  Hahahahahaha....  haha.  ..  Ummmmm...  Yes. 

P.S.  Amanda's painting is stinkin AWESOME!  That girl can paint!!!! :)  Praise the Lord!

Do you ever feel like you are drifting through the day finding yourself blurred to everything around you?  It's like in those movies when they fast forward everything, or twirl the scene with you standing still.  The camera does one of those panoramic circles focusing on your face and the scenery whips and whirls.  When it all comes to a standstill you're supposed to have something crazy good or crazy bad happen.  That's where I stand...the whirl has come to an end and I'm waiting.  Will it be crazy good or crazy bad??  Who knows but God right?  Yeah, I know but I can still wonder can't I?  Here's a list of things that have ran through my mind in the last 2 weeks.  Here's my whippering whirlwind:

I feel... anxious, nervous, at a loss of words.

I see... preparation, avoidance, hesitation.

I hear... whispers, laughter, frustration

I experience... gratitude, excellence, failure

I understand... grace, service, selfishness

All of this leaves me... speechless, waiting, and worried.

I think I'm getting early wrinkles on my forhead, too, haha.  All that above is a combination of teaching, relationships: family, friends, and love, my relationship with Christ, and real estate.  It's retarded to have all that floating above me....and really I haven't been dwelling on any of it with focus, but it all just mists.  Eh.  You'd think that by now I'd know God's timing is perfect in all of life's situations, and that everything happens for a reason, yet I keep surprising myself with how often I have to give everything up to Him...again...and again...oh yeah and again. : )  Maybe someday I'll get this surrender thing.  I hope it's soon b/c whirlwinds make me dizzy.  Hopefully this brief stillness I have tonight will end in something crazy good.