The other day I made the rare mistake of getting a bit political on Koobecaf. It seems folks in my former home state of Washington decided to spend the weekend expressing their displeasure with Governor Jay “I was a presidential candidate for fifteen minutes too!” Inslee’s pace at restarting the state’s economy. I posted a link to said protest on Facebook, and that’s where the argument began.
I get it, some people have very legitimate fears about this, with parents, grandparents, and other vulnerable family members located near some of these viral hotspots. I have a lot of sympathy for those folks, because that situation sucks. But other people are just scared, which is also understandable, given that the media has been causing people to marinate in a climate of total fear for almost two months now.
But then I was also reminded that 2 Timothy 1:7 says “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. So after today’s nice, easy five mile run, I wrote this on Insta, along with my post-run Strava summary.
“It’s tough to not be fearful right now, when the news seems filled with messages of ‘Be afraid! Stay inside! Everything can kill you!’
I choose not to live that way. I’m not just running for myself and my own goals either. As part of #TeamWorldVision, I’m running for people who need clean water, for whom an eight mile trek isn’t a nice midweek run, but a daily chore just to get some water to drink.
But even if my race gets cancelled, I’ll still be out running. Because I choose a sound mind over fear. Because I’d rather be kind to my neighbors than call the cops on them for being less than six feet apart in their driveway.”
