HOPEful girl

Let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.   -Hebrews 10:22 My right leg continues to give me problems so I did not run the full Honolulu marathon this year.   Rather,  I ran the first 6.2  of that 26.2 mile run in the ‘start to park’ 10K race.  This enabled me to finish early and go cheer on some of the other runners as I walked up ahead along the course route around the south side of diamond head.  In doing this, I was rewarded with a  spectacular view of the sun rising over the Pacific Ocean (see pic above).  I even got to see the elite runners up close as they were coming up just over a mile before the finish line.   As I watched the first place runner, I noticed he kept looking back.   Anyone who is a runner knows, you are not supposed to look back as th...

They say laughter is the best medicine, but I say gratitude is essential for total health and healing.  Since moving to Hawaii, I’ve made it a point to do something new and adventurous for my birthday. You know, to keep me young and all.  The first year I went shark cage diving, another time I went on a glider ride.  And this year, I went on a kayak adventure.  That’s right, I traveled by myself to Kailua to make this great expedition  kayaking to small Moku islands, 2 miles  off the coast of the north shore.  We had a guide and fortunately there was someone else traveling by herself  in our group that I got paired up with so I wouldn’t have to kayak alone in one boat.  I was very excited but as the safety instructions were being given, I started to get nervous. ‘If a wave comes toward you, head directly into it.  Do not swerve or put boat to its side as this will  surely cause the wave to tip you and your kayak over’. ...