Great Strides 2013

Our city's Great Strides walk took place on May 18th this year and we had a great time. This was our 3rd year participating in the walk. We had over 130 walkers on our team, Jason's Journey, and our team raised $8,075!! I am still in shock at that total. Our dear friends, Paul and Andrea, set up an INCREDIBLE sweets booth at the walk. So incredible, in fact, that many people have contacted me to ask if they can pay them to help at their parties (Andrea, I think you've found your niche!). We met this sweet couple at birth class, of all places! God certainly knew what He was doing when He put us together. Our husbands needed the comic relief they found in each other and Andrea and I needed each other's nervous laughs to make it through the horrendous 1970's birthing videos we had to watch week after week. Some of my favorite memories from pregnancy are from that class, and look, we got amazing life-long friends out of the deal! Matt and I joke that they are the only friends we had to pay for. Anyway, they drove all the way from California to be a part of GS again this year and we are so thankful to have them as friends family! p.s. I stole the pics from Andrea's blog. :)

 

 The day was wonderful, although heavy clouds loomed overhead. It poured all during set-up, cleared for the walk, then started raining again. You can't imagine how awesome it felt to know that people still came out in the rain to participate. We are so incredibly humbled by the outpouring of support our sweet boy has received throughout his journey.

    

It was fun to design our shirts this year, and of course we continued with our Psalm 139 theme. :) This verse has become so meaningful to me, because it speaks to the fact that God didn't make a mistake. God's plans are higher and greater than my own, and He wasn't out of control when Jason was born. God's purposes remain even through hard things like CF. We are so very thankful for the joyful and loving little boy he is becoming and pray that God would continue the good work He has already begun in Jason. He is a good God in the business of good things. 

Thanks again to everyone who participated in JJ this year! 

Psalm 139:13-16

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

15 

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.

16 

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

    all the days ordained for me were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.