Reflection
This morning I will be competing in my first triathlon in almost three years.
I dive into the lake at Buck Creek State Park at 7:30 AM and should finish the event about three hours later…twenty years ago I would have said two and a half hours later :).
When I crossed the finish line for Ironman Maryland back in September of 2018, I had no idea that was going to be my last triathlon for a while.
A broken hip and a pandemic is a perfect formula for pausing my triathlon journey.
As a person with an age that exceeds most participants, it would have been easy for me to give up the sport of triathlon after such a lengthy layoff.
I love the sport too much.
Broken bones and pandemics eventually heal and go away.
The fire to compete, at least for me, continues to burn.
Questions
Is there something life or the pandemic temporarily took away from you?
Did you reluctantly have to hit the “pause” button on an activity you dearly love?
Facts
Life has the ability to hit our “pause” button at what seems like the most inopportune time(s).
We have the ability to push the “play” button when our life-pauses are over.
Don’t forget to push “play.”
Romans 5:3-5, “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Galatians 6:9, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
