It was such an exciting thing to see the support that people have for one another. Sometimes you don’t see it enough.
The Pickell family as well as my mom and I, participated in a 5K on Tybee beach in GA. Yes I did say on the beach!! It was freezing and half the time I couldn’t feel my face. But, it was so glorious to see the amount of friends and family that came to show their support for others that have been diagnosed and fighting Pancreatic Cancer as well as the love ones that have been lost.
Before we decided to do this my brother had asked me “Why people run and walk for cancer?” I couldn’t really answer him until I did it. There’s something about it that is spiritual at least for me it was. It was also about letting things go and realizing that running wasn’t about me and if I could make it or not, it was just about doing something that required nothing but peace and time for someone else.
As I was about to stop and start walking, right after I had passed the 2 mile marker. I saw a lady holding a sign around her neck honoring a brother, husband, father, who they had lost and I decided that my pain was nothing until I had walked in her shoes, and then I prayed the whole way to the end.
This is what I took home from this experience everyone experienced something different. Whether it was time with a brother just walking to the finish or a sister in-laws shoulder to cry on, or just catching up with friends and granddaughters who came out to show their support.
What this weekend did for my family was therapeutic as well as a blessing from our maker.
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