run the race

Last year around this time, josh, Green and I were trudging the streets of Seattle in freezing cold temps to run our half- marathon. I thought of this when someone was talking about "running the race" in hebrews 12 - the crowd of people cheering us on, telling us to run- people we didn't even know trying to encourage us to keep going.
The guy was talking about life- and how the people in Hebrews 12 are believers that have gone before us, people who have finished the race and they are screaming "God IS good! He IS faithful...keep it up! He IS worth it!" I thought of how those people cheered us on in Seattle and how great it was to be cheered for. Then the guy said- it is not just Paul and Peter and Ruth cheering us on, it is Amy Carmichael, Adoniram Judson, and other people- people you know who have finished the race.
I started to cry and laugh at the same time because I heard Rob in his "most red-neck voice ever" saying "Katy- get 'er done! Come on girl- you got it....don't let it whip ya!"