Mark Hunter Talbot

To process. What to process? I just know that I need to process. What a strange gut feeling a funeral, a death, a life can bring. Total and complete heavenly sent joy at its fullest combined with full pain from head to toe. Pain that penetrates my heart and overflows to the seat next to me.

Lord God Almighty, come soon! Come quickly. Bring your mercy upon your people, your followers. Bring us out of this pit. Reunite mothers and fathers with their babies lost to a fallen world.

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So, I've come to the conclusion that running, or better yet, training for a marathon is a total spiritual experience.....far out weighing all of the physical realm. As Paul wrote it best, I do what I don't want to do and I don't do what I really really really want to do. Man! What a mind game every morning is, just trying to get out of bed. To all my fellow marathoners, WOW! I don't even consider myself a "runner," just crazy at this point.

I'm two months out from running 26.2 miles, and spend many moments questioning what I'm doing. So, all said, I've decided that at this point, I'm not doing anything, but the Lord God Almighty that created this body, and the brain inside that birthed this crazy notion, He is the One doing it ALL.

And on a final note, He is the One that will protect me through it....I mean from the numerous reports of bear and MOUNTAIN LION seen on Brush Creek Road. Oh Lord, please protect me!!!