scrape my body off the floor......Amber

It's funny the things we do to our bodies. I was running in this race on Saturday, where you have to see how many 800m runs your team can do in 2 hours. And we were all really competitive so we ended up running 8 3mintue half miles in total and getting second for Red River. But my body is a reck right now. I haven't been able to keep much down since Saturday and everything hurts. It didn't hurt at the time...but I remember on my last couple of laps looking around and wondering why in the world we would do something as stupid as exhausting our bodies by running around in circles like little hamsters.
Same thing in life. Why run ourselves to the point of exhaustion? What is it that drives us? What attracts us to things that seem so good but end up just draining us? I'm reading a book called "Ordering Your Private World" and it talks about the difference of being driven vs. being called. And it's just amazing to look at the reason why we do things.
No more scurrying around. Time to rest. I came out of the washroom the other day at YFC thinking...I just can't wait for the day when I don't have to be a leader in position. Just would be able to love people/kids without all the other junk on top of it. I wonder if there will ever be days like that again. But that's okay because that's not today; and today is a good thing in itself. :)