Why my Walk Across America must pause and why it's not ending anytime soon

Tonight, my bosom is heavy.

After implicit 190 days of walking crossed America done vigor and cold, done towns and forgotten highways, done moments of bonzer grace and moments of bone-deep exhaustion, the doctors person told maine I indispensable pause. Surgery connected my bottommost is scheduled for March 30, and adjacent Thursday, I indispensable spot a cardiologist arsenic well.

I did not program for this. I wanted to support walking.

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But I would beryllium lying to you if I stood present and pretended I was not emotionally breached tonight. This travel has taken everything retired of maine connected a physical, spiritual, and affectional level. Every reserve I had erstwhile I started this walk, I person spent. There is thing near successful the vessel that I enactment determination myself.

I cognize I volition support walking, due to the fact that I support reasoning astir the children connected the South Side of Chicago for whom we are gathering a Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center. Every mile is for them. Every measurement is for the opportunities we are creating. 

And yet, I cognize I cannot quit. I cognize I cannot spell backmost location to the South Side of Chicago arsenic a quitter. I support coming backmost to a verse I’ve leaned connected galore times before: Philippians 4:13: "I tin bash each things done Christ who strengthens me." Not done my ain conditioning, not done willpower oregon toughness oregon sheer stubbornness, but done Him. Because if this locomotion depended connected what I had near successful maine tonight, it would already beryllium over.

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The symptom started with my heel, a pyogenic granuloma. It is the sanction for the achy maturation I had chopped disconnected before, lone to aftermath up precocious and find that it had grown back. The symptom was excruciating with each step. It is the benignant of symptom that makes you question everything. Pain has a comic mode of doing that. It makes you inquire wherefore you are doing what you are doing. It makes you inquire if what you are doing is worthy it.

But I cognize I volition support walking, due to the fact that I support reasoning astir the children connected the South Side of Chicago for whom we are gathering a Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center. Every mile is for them. Every measurement is for the opportunities we are creating. My intent is stronger than my symptom and I judge that present much than I ever person before.

But the assemblage has its ain accounting, and yet it presents the bill.

I deliberation astir the Apostle Paul, who wrote from prison. He had been beaten, shipwrecked, and near for the dead. He said successful 2 Corinthians 4:8 that we are "hard pressed connected each side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not successful despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." I admit this is not poesy to maine tonight. But it describes my situation, the roadworthy that I americium on.  I person been pressed connected each side. I person been struck down. But I americium not destroyed.

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God did not bring maine 190 days and 3,000 miles to permission maine connected the broadside of a Louisiana highway.

I person to judge that. I bash judge that. Even tonight, erstwhile content costs much than it ever has.

The locomotion volition intermission for surgery, for healing, for immoderate the cardiologist finds erstwhile helium looks astatine my bosom adjacent week.

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I volition not unreal I americium not scared. I volition not enactment connected a show of spot that I bash not person tonight. What I person alternatively is faith. Hebrews 11:1 reminds america that religion is the substance of things hoped for, the grounds of things not seen. I cannot spot the decorativeness enactment from wherever I americium lasting close now. But I person walked 190 days connected the grounds that it is there.

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The ngo is to physique a $25 cardinal assemblage halfway connected the South Side of Chicago, a spot wherever young men and women tin larn trades, find mentors, and observe that their lives person absorption and value. That gathering does not attraction astir my heel. Those children bash not get a intermission fastener connected the circumstances they were calved into. The request does not remainder portion I recover.

So, present is what I americium asking.

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Pray for me. I judge successful the powerfulness of supplication the mode I judge successful breathing. I request it close now. And if you judge successful what we are building, basal with us. Share the mission. Let the radical successful your beingness cognize that determination is simply a pastor determination successful Louisiana who is breached and hurting and trusting God, and who volition beryllium backmost connected that roadworthy arsenic soon arsenic the Lord allows.

The locomotion whitethorn pause, but the intent cannot. The children of the South Side are waiting and I americium inactive coming.

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