Unexpected Rain, Isaiah 43, Two 5k's and Experiencing God for Real!!!

Writing seems so inadequate to express my heart right now but let me try. Today was another 5k. This time was at Hagley Museum here in Delaware. Amazingly beautiful area. have never been there. My heart is so full right now so bare with me if I tend to ramble. This weekend is something special in my life... Have been so caught up in everything else but God is catching me in my tracks....

This was one amazing day. It started as the Lord led me to the first book in the Bible today as He is teaching me about His covenants with His people. What an "Awesome God" we serve. He never goes back on His Word!

This 5k was called the "Doggie Doo." I know it is a funny name!!! It was to benefit Kanine Partners for Life. I know some of you will remember and some of you might not. The Lord alowed me to have a helper dog growing up. It was great having Cori and am really missing her today. She was amazing! She went to school and everywhere with me, even to pro wrestling matches!

Hagley Museum is a beautiful place! It really was a great place to go through and just acknowledge that God is God and we aren't! He made everything we see! The race started at 8 and it was an overcast with no expectations for rain. We started the race... Dave Ziegler is a manager at the place where I work and he started the race with me. Good Luck!!! What an amazing time. So, at the mile and a half the rain just started to poor! It was amazingly refreshing! We all got soaked! The coolest thing was on my mp3 player was a song that came from Isaiah 43 from the Pat Brown Worship band (for all those Shane and Shane fans out there - that is the band they were with and still produce.) It kept saying "Water is filling this place." It was soooo amazing! just because of His Holy Spirit and how He graciously lifts us up out of our sinful state with no warrant... Nothing we can boast about but His work! His choosing to make us His.

When I got to mile 2, I see Dave coming back! He just wanted to finish with me. He had already won 2nd over all and 1st in his age group. He kept on encouraging me. I would need it. At the very end of the course was this insane hill. It was the hardest hill ever but I was able to overcome it. Jesus be praised! Another great person who I have met in recent weeks is a lady name Liz. she works in the print shop at work. She was great, too, encouraging me to keep going at the end. It was the hardest thing I think I have done. By the way, on the good old mp3 player then was a song by Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman named "America." It is asking God to please come to America and revive and awaken our dead hearts again so we can reach out.

We were all standing around and awaiting the award presentations, and this lady came up to me and said she just wanted to say how inspired that she was when she saw me coming up that amazing hill. I had to say all glory to God! She had a tear in her eye when she told me what the Lord had laid on her heart. She said that is the way, putting all we have into life, that we must enter the heaven. Wow! Thank you, Father for a great time!!!

When I got home, using the internet I looked up to see what the song was I had heard when the rains had came. Well, after I got a warm bath... ha ha! That felt so good. What a blessing that God had blessed me with! Isaiah 43. Will be here for a long time to come. It is amazing when He speaks and we are open. He has redeemed me! Redeemed this computer I am sitting at now...

thanks for listening to my ramblings,

jonathan