40 days! That’s right 40 days until I run the Disney Princess 10K as a part of Team Lemon! I am not sure where the time has gone but the race is fast approaching. If I am honest this has been a tough race preparation season. Injuries and illness have plagued me almost from the beginning. If I am honest I am still not 100%. My right foot is still healing from the micro tears in my fascia and I am not physically back to where I was a few months ago before my injury.
The other day as I was doing my devotions I felt God calling me to really reflect. I felt that over these next forty days he wants to dig in and clean out the garbage I have been holding in. While I have been struggling physically, I have also been struggling emotionally/spiritually. I noticed this when I felt feelings of comparison cropping up. Then there were the moments when I was passing judgement on others when really I needed to be looking inside myself.
All of us have these moments, but I have been having them a lot lately and this is not like me. So for the next forty days as I finishing preparing to run my physical race, I am going to allow God to bring my heart back in line so I can run the race he has set before me. I am going to be intentional about spending more quiet time with God. Allowing him to purge the things that are holding me back. I am going to make sure that I am making my days count, spending quality time with family and friends, really focusing on this life I have been given to live.
I know that this is not going to be an easy forty days. If you look at all the references in the bible to forty days non of them were easy. However, I know that when the forty days are up and I get to run my race it will be all worth it! I will be a new creation once again ready to step out and be Brave in whatever God calls me into next.
Blessings,
Michelle