Running for More Birthdays!!

Run for the Reason 2013 has begun! We ran twice yesterday and are into the third run today. Yesterday, our daytime run was brutally hot, and today, the daytime run is wet and rainy. But that's ok, we're running to raise money for the American Cancer Society to help those diagnosed with cancer celebrate more birthdays.

This year's run is bit bitter-sweet for me. I just finished up my third and final run for this year. Ideally, I would run 5 times total, but this year my time has been cut short by the very disease we are running to cure. My beautiful wife's great aunt was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just two weeks before it took her life. The funeral services are tonight and tomorrow, and I'll be cutting my running short to spend time with her and her family.

Hopefully, one day, this wont be an issue any more and we can run to support a different cause, but until then we will keep running for more birthdays!

BC

Run Starts Tomorrow!!

Alabama Power Service Organization's Run for the Reason starts TOMORROW!! It’s hard to believe that the event is here already. I’ve been training hard for the last few months, and I am ready. The rest of the group is excited and ready to run.

We will be live blogging during the run on our group blog. Please follow our progress as we go along: http://runforthereason2013.blogspot.com

I will be live tweeting and blogging as well. You can follow my personal progress at any or all of the following locations:

• My Personal Blog
• Twitter
• Facebook

To all of my Donors:

Thanks so much for your help. Your donation helped me exceed my personal goal of $1,500. The entire group together (21 runners and 12 drivers) raised over $35,000 for the American Cancer Society (the final number isn’t quite calculated yet, but it may be over $40,000). I thank all of my donors again for your donations.

BC

An Unwanted Anniversary...

Forty years ago today our world changed forever. Our nation has since been polarized by the notion of life versus choice, secular versus sacred, and us versus them. No longer do we have the ability to say life is sacred. The government has determined that it can decide when life begins regardless of when God begins it. It is now an option whether or not a person is worthy of life. What is more, the government now has the ability to say we must support this effort with our taxes, because healthcare includes abortion and birth control. Sex is now purely recreational with supposedly no consequences. Regardless of the design of intercourse, it is now simply for self-indulgence. Any consequences of said action, aside from pleasure, is now a nuisance, an inconvenience to life. Therefore, if you are forty years old or younger today, thank God and your parents for your life, because the government has said that your life is inconsequential.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you 
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
-- Psalm 139:13-15

The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
-- Jeremiah 1:4-5