To celebrate, I trekked some miles in the frigid negative North Dakota temps. Yes, that is frost on my hat, and yes I am wearing 3 pairs of socks interlined with plastic bags.
This song and lyrics sum up my thoughts and feeling today.
Restless soul, turning leaf
Tomorrows unknown mysteries
I'm leaving here, I end up where
Into the unknown we fly
We said there's no time to waste
So hand in hand we run this race
Let's end it well
Escape them fires of hell
Wander all out lives
Till we're gone
Pick up sticks and pack your bags let's go
Where things grow, in the hills in summer time
Under trees and over streams we walk and we talk
All our days, into the night
Into the unknown we fly
And our hearts are beating
And our feet they've got a long long way to go
And our souls want to shine
Can't you feel it from your head to your toes
Touching down we're breaking through
To a land that seems brand new to you and me
And God makes three
Lost and now we're found again
This place playin' it's tricks on me
Help me down from a strangers tree
There's beauty here, but I miss it there
Trace my path in wind and snow
Thunderstruck I've got a place in mind
All our time in the world, is gonna pass
Grab your hand we've got some plans to know
Open roads, we're together at long last
Wander all our lives, till we're gone
And our hearts are beating
And our feet they've got a long long way to go
And our souls want to shine
Can't you feel it from your head to your toes
And I thank the Lord, for everything He's done
And I thank my Father, for sending us His son
And I thank that Spirit, for helping us be one
Helping us be one, out there on the run
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"Into the unknown we fly"
"Lets end it well"
"Our feet they've got a long long way to go"
"Helping us be one, out there on the run."
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the core pillars of Awake My Sole
Run Passionately
Run Purposefully
Run with Beautiful Feet
Run with Endurance
Run towards the Goal (Jesus)
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"Oh Lord Jesus, Guide our feet into the way of peace"
"Into the unknown we fly"
"Lets end it well"
"Our feet they've got a long long way to go"
"Helping us be one, out there on the run."
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the core pillars of Awake My Sole
Run Passionately
Run Purposefully
Run with Beautiful Feet
Run with Endurance
Run towards the Goal (Jesus)
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"Oh Lord Jesus, Guide our feet into the way of peace"
Where are you being guided?
By whom?
By what?
By what influence?
To where?
"Oh Lord Jesus, Guide us today for your glory's sake"
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"A sojourner is a person who resides temporarily in a place."
We runners are those with literal Restless Soles, each run a temporary sojourning endeavor. Whether it's half a mile in little time to thousands of miles in a lot of time, we sojourn.
I can't help but think of the Christmas story, and the wise men whose feet were guided by the star. They were sojourners, guided by God
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Just some of the thoughts in the restless, sojourning, sole, soul of mine.
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