Walk Across Alabama

Just real quick as I’m exhausted! What a day! The launch in Tuskegee  this morning was very fun. We had an incredible breakfast from Dave and then a time of devotion. A wonderful small group came out for the send off and we had seven walkers start off our journey. We even had a unicylclist!

A part of the group peeled off so four of us walked the rest of the day. I am so grateful to our support crew of Don and his wife Janet, and our staff person Carla. They are a wonderful blessing and so needed! We stopped to rest about every hour, refilling water bottles, eating a snack and resting our feet. Lunch was picnic style under a small China Berry tree.

We finished in great time-basically seven hours to walk 20 miles. Our feet are sore and I have a bit of heat rash on my legs-plus the calf high grass sometimes doesn’t help much. But, I think of why we do this. Poverty is hard. Families struggle and half to deal with conditions that are never ideal. As my feet scream at me to stop-it helps me understand for just a moment the “pain” many families may face.

I look forward to another day as we stop at Frazer Memorial tomorrow during Annual Conference. We only do 13 miles so not as hard a day. Thank you for the prayers and the twitters and the text messages. We’ll keep posting them.

Blessings!