PROMISE - it takes courage

⁴⁵ Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfil his promises to her!” Luke 1:45

     

Meeting  Promise a little girl in Goma, DRC about 3 weeks ago, was just another reason to keep on pursuing ‘promises’ over my life and realising that there is always hope no matter in what circumstances we may find ourselves in.

This being the very reason why when the day came for me to race in the ITU Triathlon this past Sunday, I decided to dedicate this race to Promise. Promise has Cerebral Palsy, can’t walk, can’t learn like a normal child her age, lives in Goma, and probably has, in the world’s eyes no future hope. I have to believe differently, why? God is bigger and what we may see as a future and a calling, God might actually have a different idea. At least this is what I have been learning the past few years as I take on new challenges and new dreams in essence.

 Who would ever have thought that having a disability could allow me to ever do what I get to do, even fulfil promises I never knew existed a few years ago…

             

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” Vince Lombardi

    

I know that finding the strength, the courage the determination, the perseverance to keep going when my body doesn't want to is not always easy but believing that Gods promises are bigger then my body, gives me courage to keep going and doing what pushes me past my limits to my dreams. swimming 500meters, cycling 20km and walking about 1km, is the courage I had to do on Sunday!

“When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.” Vince Lombardi

        

I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour -- his greatest fulfilment to all he holds dear -- is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

- Coach Vincent T. Lombardi 

Nothing great in the world
 has
ever been accomplished
 without passion 
George Wilhelm Hegel

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