hi loved ones,
My absence has been great... but I have returned to write about one of my favorite topics - the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure!
It seems like only a few months ago that I finished my third 3-day walk in DFW. I vividly remember how raw my emotions were with each step. My eyes are filling with tears even as I write this because the 3-day has been such a profound experience in my life.
I walked fiercely and passionately, with more determination than I ever had before. Although I was fierce, my thoughts and emotions were ever changing. One moment I was high on life and ready to kick cancer's rear end and the next moment I was silenced by the severity of cancer and the ripple effects it leaves behind. Countless times throughout the walk I had to re-direct my thought process and completely rest in the fact that God is sovereign. His sovereignty is enough.
He is the Creator of our bodies, Author of our lives, and He has our days of life perfectly numbered.
My team, The Hopefuls, is walking together again this year in Dallas on November 2nd-4th.
We will celebrate in the advancements in breast cancer research, rejoice in lives saved, cry over lives lost and families changed forever, but ultimately we will pray for God's love to be known. We will walk in honor of Stephanie's beautiful life, but most importantly we will walk to share with others our hope in Jesus Christ.
I have to be honest, I have been a little hesitant to write and a little discouraged about fundraising this year. Fundraising, as many of us know, is quite difficult. I have almost run out of ideas after picking my brain for years to trying to think of the easiest and quickest ways to raise $2,300. I'm at that awkward age where majority of my friends are young college graduates and don't have excessive amounts of money lying around, but I've come to grips with that. We aren't rich and we may never be rich, but that doesn't mean that we can't make a difference with the little that has been entrusted to us.
I deeply believe in the cure, I believe that the Lord wants me to walk 60 miles in 3 days in 2012, and I'm confident that the money will come in - however God wants it to.
I am asking you all to pray about donating to my 3-day account -- even if it's just the $5 you were going to spend on coffee today. Five dollars may not seem like a lot, but I promise you it will go a long way. It will change lives.
Together, we will eradicate breast cancer.
If you are not able to give, I just ask that you pray the money will flow in.
grateful & humbled,
Callyn
