Sunrise Over The Mississippi River
Posted March 31st, 2008 at 11:18 AM by TiderinMiss
Updated March 31st, 2008 at 11:23 AM by TiderinMiss
Updated March 31st, 2008 at 11:23 AM by TiderinMiss
Sunday morning at sunrise, I decided to go on my morning run. It's a time for me to reflect. To pray. To get my day off to a good start.
We had been camping last weekend at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians in Natchez, and our campground was 3.2 miles from the Mississippi River. It was a good time to run. Hardly any traffic on U.S. 61 to U.S. 84.
One of my new nicknames is "Gump", given to me by some of my scouts. It's because I love to run, it was the fifth time I've crossed the Mississippi running, I'm from Alabama off Route 17, and I love shrimp. Fried shrimp. Boiled shrimp. Baked shrimp. Barbeque shrimp. Coconut shrimp...yeah...you get the picture.
As I was running on U.S. 84 going westbound, I started to get discouraged. I was tired from the previous day, where I ran in the Dilla Dash up in Port Gibson. I was about 25 minutes into the run, with the final hill ahead of me. One part of me (the tired part) was thinking, you've got your run in, you met a goal. Just turn around and finish at teh campground. The eternal optimistic side of me prevailed, thinking, it's just five more minutes to the river. At least get to the top of the hill, and see the river.
So, I continued.
Up the hill.
Took about two extra minutes.
That's all.
Running and exercise really is more mental than physical.
When I saw the river bridge, majestically spanning the Great River, I got to thinking, this must be what Moses felt when he climbed up Mt. Sinai. It was worth the extra two minutes.
I looked over into "the Promised Land", and continued down U.S. 84. I crossed the river into Vidalia, Louisianna, turned around, and headed back east to Natchez.
(Vidalia, LA, the spot where I turned around to run back across the Mississippi River)
Anyway, as I headed back across the river, the sun started peeking over the hills of Natchez. What a sight to see! I'm a very fortunante and blessed man to be able to see such sights. Had I just turned around at the 25 minute mark, I never would have seen that sunrise.
It's why we should never give up and always see through our goals no matter how discuraged we get. The reward is worth it.
We had been camping last weekend at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians in Natchez, and our campground was 3.2 miles from the Mississippi River. It was a good time to run. Hardly any traffic on U.S. 61 to U.S. 84.
One of my new nicknames is "Gump", given to me by some of my scouts. It's because I love to run, it was the fifth time I've crossed the Mississippi running, I'm from Alabama off Route 17, and I love shrimp. Fried shrimp. Boiled shrimp. Baked shrimp. Barbeque shrimp. Coconut shrimp...yeah...you get the picture.
As I was running on U.S. 84 going westbound, I started to get discouraged. I was tired from the previous day, where I ran in the Dilla Dash up in Port Gibson. I was about 25 minutes into the run, with the final hill ahead of me. One part of me (the tired part) was thinking, you've got your run in, you met a goal. Just turn around and finish at teh campground. The eternal optimistic side of me prevailed, thinking, it's just five more minutes to the river. At least get to the top of the hill, and see the river.
So, I continued.
Up the hill.
Took about two extra minutes.
That's all.
Running and exercise really is more mental than physical.
When I saw the river bridge, majestically spanning the Great River, I got to thinking, this must be what Moses felt when he climbed up Mt. Sinai. It was worth the extra two minutes.
I looked over into "the Promised Land", and continued down U.S. 84. I crossed the river into Vidalia, Louisianna, turned around, and headed back east to Natchez.
(Vidalia, LA, the spot where I turned around to run back across the Mississippi River)Anyway, as I headed back across the river, the sun started peeking over the hills of Natchez. What a sight to see! I'm a very fortunante and blessed man to be able to see such sights. Had I just turned around at the 25 minute mark, I never would have seen that sunrise.
It's why we should never give up and always see through our goals no matter how discuraged we get. The reward is worth it.
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Thank you friend...needed to hear that.Posted October 4th, 2008 at 10:14 AM by BamaToTheEnd
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I didn't see your sunrise, but here is a sunset over the Mississippi River that I took this past August while I was in Natchez.
Posted October 16th, 2008 at 11:54 AM by beb4bama
