02/12/2025
Pointing 1 because God is the 1 who helped us made it out this far ๐
What started out in late January as a โhey heard thereโs a very viral fitness event going onโ and โmaybe can set this goal to achieve before 30โ to โyeah sure lets sign up!โ, everything seems surreal and honestly impossible at the beginning.
I began my fitness journey in late May last year, after a series of episodes of realising my worth in God and eventually gotten into a series of interviews as a flight attendant (which they require my bmi to be below a certain standard or body shape - which now I do not agree with after gotten in and left). Fitness was to me, initially, a way to shrink my body and getting skinnier, I pushed through with grit and grief even though I gotten much leaner, I was not happy at all as I l pursued it because I did not love my body, wanting to change it, and to earn my food.
Then I learnt to surrender my fitness journey to God and accept my body, throughout the process of relying on God for my health, my visceral and body fat went down sustainably, I started eating carbs again and stop seeing it as an enemy but as a fuel for my activities. It took a long time to come into terms in how I see myself as perfectly worth it and loved by the God who created me.
And slowly, I found myself enjoying going to the gym, itโs a place where I take a breather, listen to worship christian party songs, bringing all my weaknesses to Him and laying down my pride in my strength and all glory to Him. I started having confidence in failing, because itโs okay to fail because Iโm not perfect and I never will, but the more I fail meaning the closer I get to the goal relying on God with Him strengthening me, giving me the endurance to push through because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
A vision that Pastor set for us through the year of Third Day was also reversing the years and redeeming the years (15) that the locusts have eaten. It was also a chapter of saying goodbye to old dreams and onto the next.
Racing from Victory. Run with Endurance by looking to Jesus. With His unforced rhythms of Grace. Thank you God for the timely reminder and this year of fitness made me realised that dont put your fitness on the back burner because of lifeโs demands. Fitness is a way to remind myself to take care of this body that God has given me.
Seeing how my Hyrox partner, Ariel, who has grown so much and far this year (and really proud of her and thankful to God) too reminded me the warmth of having a fitness community and friends who supports you and you supporting them is really so crucial. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a community. A very heartfelt thankful for all the supporters who came to support, in person and online, we wouldnโt have come this far without your cheering and continual support throughout.
Perhaps the goal all along was not the fitness, nor the achievements, but the growth, acceptance and relationships grown in the processโฆ?
Thank you Jesus ๐
