Well here I am back in good old Fort Collins, Colorado.  Our travels home were great, we had numerous games of 20 questions to pass the time on the drive home from DIA.  Overall it was a great trip.  I got to see my family and friends, raced at Hayward field and ran a pr, and got to have a great time with my team mates.  But the best part was God's blessing, in more than one way.

First of God gave us all great weather to race in.  The temperature was perfect, there was minimal wind and the sun was out.  Being from Oregon myself I really appreciated how nice it truly was this weekend, especially when I found out that it had snowed in Fort collins this morning.  

Second he gave me the strength to run strong.  I feel like my confidence has improved a lot, but in a good way and not a bad way.  I know I'm not the best runner out there, but I do know that I have the capability to compete in every race that I am going to run this year.

I think that it is awesome how God uses us.  I was doing my devotional yesterday before my race and I came across this verse.  It's 1Corinthians 3:17 and it says "We are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building."

 I found this to be really encouraging verse.  It says that we work with God, we are his field, and his building.  This is awesome because the way I see it, we work with God in our daily lives.  Our job is to be a light to others and share God's love, and this verse just says that we work side by side with him in this, so we are not alone in this work.  I think that a lot of times we feel that we bear the complete burden to lead someone to Christ, but in reality it is a joint effort between us and God.  We are his planters, and waterers while he does the rest by calling that person.  

The third part is really cool.  We are God's building.  I like how in this verse Paul puts the words you and are in italics to add emphasis.  This is really cool because a building is the work of a builder.  So this verse says that we are the result of God's work.  He built us up exactly the way he planned.  He had his plans laid out, and then went to work building us, not just creating us but putting us through our lives situations to make us exactly how he envisioned us.  And the best part is.  He is still working, and never will stop.

-Jake Keyser