Sunday, March 15, 2015

finish line

The first post of this blog was written on March 4, 2014.  376 days & 230 blog posts later, it's time to bring this chapter to a close. I will still email you and send you things that come my way that remind me of you two, but this will be the last post on Run4 Jens.

When I started this blog, I thought it would only be something that I would keep for the training time last spring, but after the race, I just did not get the sense that I was done yet.  The race only seemed to be a marker along the way as I still felt like there were more miles to go.  Your story has been woven into ours in such a profound way for me, and I am so grateful for the lessons learned and the journey shared together.

Yesterday as you all got married on the beach and as you gave me the gift of officiating at your wedding,  it really did feel like a finish line.  You were there surrounded by your home team and there were so many cheers through the day- from sunrise to sunset to sparklers sending you all off together... Pure joy.

I went for a short run yesterday on the beach and it only seemed fitting to take pictures of these shoes that have carried me through the training last year, through the marathon last June and now to the shores of South Carolina where your two lives have been made into one.








As we said at your rehearsal dinner (quoting Shauna Niequist here): "You are on the path exactly where you are meant to be right now and from here, you can go forward, continuing to shape your story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty and of love."  (and even though your wedding day certainly was a finish line of sorts, of course, we all know that this is just the beginning!) 



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