The van Ormer View: Good Luck, Kary!

Friday, June 22, 2012

Good Luck, Kary!

My sister, Kary, is running her 2nd marathon tomorrow!

It is the Midnight Sun Marathon, in Alaska.

Good luck, Kary!!

I know you can do it! YOU know you can do it!

If you can run like this . . . you can do anything!

This girl has overcome Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome that plagued her for 3 years. It was the weirdest thing. She was a peppy gym teacher, and then . . . BAM! She was flat on her back, exhausted, and hardly able to do anything. I remember talking to her over the phone, and she would just be crying -- wondering how she was going to make it through another day. BUT, she did not lose hope. She overcame, and has become STRONGER THAN EVER!

She is an inspiration . . . proof that you can do anything!

Love you, Kary.

Best of luck tomorrow! Run a mile for me! :-)

You can do it! You WILL do it!

We love you!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Thank you for the encouragement Mari! It's time to Arise and shine forth! That has been the youth theme this year and I have tried to take it on personally as well. Every day we have the choice to get up and do something more, or lay around and be miserable. Yes, there are times we have limitations and need to allow our bodies to recover, etc, but there is always some good to get "up" for, right?

Please pray for cooler weather tomorrow. It is actually HOT here. I mean HOT. I ran 2 miles today slowly just to keep legs loose for tomorrow and I was sweaty upon my return. The marathon starts at 8am so it will be cool then, but around 11, it could heat up. Oh how I hope for overcast skies.

I'll return and report tomorrow night or Sunday.

LOVE YOU so much!!!!!
Thanks for taking the time to cheer me on. I need it!

One mile at a time. Just like life, one day at a time.

Love
Kary; 6:07 PM

Who am I?

I am a wife and a mother, my two favorite and most distinguished titles. I have four lovely children who keep me from being vain and selfish. I spent most of my life living in Anchorage, Alaska -- where I found my love, Charles. I enjoy a great many things, and I am good at a few things. I love to sing, run, have deep conversations, bake, do family history, blog, be with family, be with friends, have quiet time (whatever that is?), teach, rearrange furniture, watch movies, go for Sunday walks, attend the temple, observe people (Yes, I am watching YOU!), and I enjoy pondering the mysteries of the World. I love living on this beautiful Earth that God has created. I know who I am and I am grateful to know it. I am a child of God -- and so are you!

Mothers

God bless you, dear friends. Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. I hope that when that occurs you will not be led to exclaim as did King Lear, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” (King Lear, I, iv, 312). Rather, I hope that you will have every reason to be proud concerning your children, to have love for them, to have faith in them, to see them grow in righteousness and virtue before the Lord, to see them become useful and productive members of society. If with all you have done there is an occasional failure, you can still say, “At least I did the very best of which I was capable. I tried as hard as I knew how. I let nothing stand in the way of my role as a mother.” Failures will be few under such circumstances.

-Gordon B. Hinckley