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Romans 8:18✝️
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@quincyagarcia
Still Arizona’s finest @lg.runss 🏃🏽‍➡️

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There’s no place like home 👠🌪️

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Everything’s golden !! ☕️🍂

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Married into the < 1% !! I am so incredibly proud of you @levijgarcia 🥇#marathonman

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Nervous, excited and hopefully ready 😅👟
#saintgeorgemarathon

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I didn’t get the opportunity to experience growing into manhood with my grandfathers. Both of mine passed away when I was very young. But along the way, I was lucky enough to gain two.

Grandpa Skeen is still here, and I’m lucky enough to call him friend. He’s a cowboy, a concrete master, stubborn as hell, and about as old-school as they come. He knows a thing or two about hard work, providing for your family, good manners, and doing what needs to be done whether you feel like it or not.

He loved one crazy lady for a lifetime and has spent the later half of his life committed to becoming a better man for her. If past lives existed, I’m pretty sure he and I shared a beer or two over a pool table in one of them.

Then there was Grandpa Janisse, who we lost this week at 101.

He was a completely different kind of man. Free-spirited, quick-witted, always moving, and capable of making a friend just about anywhere. He always had a hobbies, somewhere to go, or something he still wanted to do. I have to believe that had something to do with why he stuck around so long.

He also loved one woman for a lifetime and remained hers long after she was gone.

Running has taught me plenty about endurance, but these men have given me a much better picture of it.

There’s something masculine about staying the course. Showing up for your family. Working hard. Keeping your word. Loving one woman well. Having things that keep you curious and alive. Being strong enough to grow and humble enough to know you still need to. Doing it for decades when nobody is handing you a medal for it.

These two men couldn’t be more different but both have shown me pieces of the kind of man I want to be.

At the end of the day, I don’t think a man’s life is measured by how tough he looked, how much he accomplished, or even how many years he got. It’s who he served, who he loved, what he stood for, and whether he finished faithfully.

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It’s the end of an era. 💛

Four years ago, this life group started, and since then, it has been a safe place to land, a group to laugh with, grow alongside, and so much more.

When I first joined this group, I had just moved away from my hometown and didn’t really know anyone in the new town I now call home. Since then, I’ve met some of my very best friends who I can truly call family and my village.

Although I didn’t make it through all four years in the group and recently had to step down, I still wanted to take a moment to recognize the incredible impact this group has had on my faith and life. We’ve seen people come and go, walked through different seasons together, held one another accountable, celebrated each other, and supported one another through life’s ups and downs.

Words can’t fully describe what this group has meant to me, but it will always hold such a special place in my heart. From camping adventures, fishing trips at Goldwater and countless shared meals to birthday celebrations, the Chino-lympics, community events, and all the little moments in between, I’m so grateful for the memories we’ve made and the friendships that have come from them. I truly cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for each of us in our next seasons as we depart from this group.

Thank you to everyone who has made this group what it is. I love you all dearly, and I’m so thankful that God brought each of you into my life.

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Incase you needed a reason to visit our front porch 🌈🐄

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‘til the next PTO request! Thank you Jesus for friends that feel like family, new life, and a city so near and dear to our hearts. We love you all and can’t wait to add baby Lorett to the crew 🤭✨

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Strong legs. Clear mind. Grateful heart.
#runna #therapy

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touching grass ! 🧺🌻☀️

#smalltownusa

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The 🐐 of real strength #jesusisking

🎧: @kijanboone

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Small town summer anyone? 🐮👋

#funnyfarm
#outwest
#countrylife

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