The Experience of a Lifetime

An email that I sent out on Monday morning after the walk:

Well, we have done it! My whole team walked the 60 miles with incredible determination and positive attitudes. I could not have asked for a better group of ladies to walk this amazing event with for 3 days. The organization of the camp and entire event is indescribable. All of the communities we walked through (which were many) were very supportive. We had brownie troops (girl scouts), families, businesses, police officers and many others just about every step of the way with candy, water, homemade goodies and even trash bags. It is funny to think how much trash we accumulated in those little fanny packs. :)

Thank you all so much for your support and prayers. This journey has ended with many tears. Some tears of sadness for a disease that takes and affects many lives, but mostly tears of joy to have been part of this cause and finish something that started for me many years ago. I have been truly changed through this and words will never do justice to what I feel, but be assured that I am grateful, blessed and highly favored.

This email sums everything up. I could talk about this weekend for a very long time. It is amazing what God will do with 3 days and 60 miles of your life. I will be forever changed. No matter how hard it got I knew it did not compare to the fight these women (and some men) face everyday. My amazement also stands with the 3-Day organization as a whole. An enormous event that is highly organized and very well done.

If you ever have an opportunity to walk this, please do. Don't give in to the idea that you can't do it physically because you can. One woman did the entire 60 miles in a wheelchair. I will be walking again in 2009. For 2008 I have chosen to crew (volunteer). I would like to serve others since I have been served.

On a mission to make a difference......