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The word empathy seems to have become a rather ambiguous word in our language today. It is a concept that we know is important. But we also seem unable to clearly define what empathy is and what it looks like. For myself, I tend to define it as feeling the same thing as someone else and, therefore, being able to understand what they are going through or have gone through. I also consider it an act of support for the person who is suffering or struggling. But what does that truly look like in…

In an earlier post I mentioned a ring-box I had received as a Christmas gift years ago with the saying “the journey, not the arrival, matters” written on the side. While running Cross Country in college I have come to a new understanding of this saying and how it applies to my life. Before I began to run Cross Country, I always assumed it was only a physically demanding sport and running was really all there was to it. It is certainly incredibly physically demanding, but it is also an…

Life, in all areas, is a matter of balance. We must balance priorities, balance responsibilities, balance our diets, balance our sleep schedule, balance our finances…It is all about keeping that balance. In the physical, tangible things, that seems to be more easily done than in those things that we cannot quite grasp and touch with our hands. So many people get caught up in the physical, the things that they can touch and feel, weigh, judge, and compare. But what really matters in…

My trip is losing something. It is no longer means as much when I share about it. I no longer know how to share about it. There is so much that I always wish I had shared each time I sit down after sharing. Every time I share I feel like I am doing it less justice and ma failing the cause and the people I rode for. It seems like I leave out the important parts and people do not get what they should out of the trip. But how can you explain two months of such amazing adventure in anything less…