Rude Graffiti

It's amazing what you see when you take the time to really open your eyes and look. It's also amazing what you hear when you take the time to really open your ears and listen. I'm not really sure what I expected when I traveled to South Africa.  There was plenty I had read about regarding life outside of America.  Imaginations can run wild when one hears statistics like "half the world lives on less than $2 a day".  It's difficult to grasp life like that without experiencing it firsthand.  Shoot, it's still hard for me to grasp it even after visiting people in less than ideal conditions for a few days.  When I left for South Africa I knew… Read More

Most people have first and foremost wanted to know about Comrades Marathon, and have shared their different thoughts on me running and finishing it, so I thought I'd make my first specific post about my trip to South Africa on Comrades. PLEASE NOTE..........THIS WAS NOT MY MAIN REASON FOR THIS TRIP! With that in mind, let's move on.  Admittedly, Comrades was a major focus physically speaking of this trip, and required much hard work and discipline just to train for it.  What made it even more difficult was not being fully aware of the difficulty of this event.  I fully believe that many people can train their bodies to run/walk 56 miles at… Read More

Over the course of the next week or so I hope to upload a few posts regarding my trip to South Africa with Team World Vision. I still have to find some time to really think through a lot of things and digest my entire experience. What I can tell you now is that it was an amazing time, and a period that I feel much was learned. With that being said, one of the main things I came back with was a renewed sense to spend more time with God. No, I don't mean more time reading my bible or praying. I mean simply spending more time with Him. Period. As I've done that this week I've come away with 2 positive things to keep my mind focused on. First, I… Read More