“A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9
Congratulations, another week of Spring100 has been accomplished!! Praise the Lord. 🙌🏻💯 NOW is the time to fill out the super simple weekly mile log below!! 👇🏼 We are logging miles for April 4th-April 10th, so please calculate those miles and submit them before scrolling down. To ensure your form was correctly submitted, you will be redirected to a confirmation page that says “Thank you. your weekly miles have been received!”. As always, any questions can be sent via email and I will be quick to answer! Info@Spring100Challenge.com
Spring100 Featured Photographer: Ellie H.
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
Psalm 32:8
How was this past week for you all?? We’ve had some crazy weather here in North East Texas for week 4. From Sunny and hot to super chilly, extreme wind storms, and then very very wet all in the past 7 days😅💨⛈☀️. Brrr… I had to pull out my winter jacket for a few days then quickly find a short sleeve shirt and sunglasses for others!😅 As I have been walking this week, I have been meditating on the beautiful truth that The Lord God directs our steps. We are told in Proverbs 16:9 that “A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.” Jeremiah 10:23 says, “O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.” and in Psalm 32:8 The Lord God promises “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.” I don’t know about you but this truth that He directs us in the way we should go gives me the boldness to take the next step in faith. 🙌🏻💯 With that blessed truth, let’s conquer this new week of Sp100 walking/running!! 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏽♂️🏃🏼♀️
QUESTION: As I see photos, I see such a variety of walking conditions! From sunny beaches to snowy paths. ☀️❄️ What kind of weather have you been enjoying this past week of Spring100 walks?? Comment below and let us know!
This Week’s Spring100 Scripture Reading Plan- April 11th-April 17th (optional):
• Monday: Hosea 11
•Tuesday: Hosea 12
•Wednesday: Hosea 13
•Thursday: Hosea 14
•Friday: Joel 1
•Saturday: Joel 2
•Sunday: Joel 3
Reading Plan QUESTION! As we finish out Hosea, I would love to hear what you took away from it!
💁🏼♀️ NEXT WEEK we will have another Spring100 Video Feature! Submit your video for a chance to be featured.🎬💯
As always, these posts are made possible and fabulous by YOU!! Your photo submissions and comments make these posts fun and my job of putting them together super easy. Thank you! So with that being said, don’t leave without commenting, and remember to send in your Spring100 walking/running photos + Videos to be featured! Send your photos to photos@spring100challenge.com and EMAIL ME for video sharing instructions. Thank you!
The Buckingham family enjoying a family Sp100 walk down by the Matanuska River in Alaska! Breathtaking views!! 🙌🏻🏔
“Hello from Lithuania! I’m Larisa and I am very glad to walk these spring 100 miles with you! I like walking with my brothers and sisters. We live on a farm and we have very beautiful views around! Thanks for the Spring💯 program!!! 😉🤩😊” Fabulous photos… LOVE having you part of the challenge, Larisa!!!
Bethany, Hannah, and Dixie(the dog🐶) enjoying a Spring100 walk and gorgeous Texas BlueBonnets at a nearby state park! Such lovely photos!!♥️💯
Elizabeth checking in from the gorgeous state of Wyoming as she grabs a Spring100 Hike 🏔🙌🏻 and Natilyn out for a walk with sister Braelyn! She says, “Hello from central Texas!! Loving walking these miles taking in all of God’s wonderful creations! Keep up the good work everyone!🙌” Thank you for the encouragement, Natilyn!! 💯♥️
Love having Becky S. check in for week 4 as they enjoy a morning walk!! Great photo! 📸
Nasby family walking along the top of the dike and in the fields along the edge of town. She says, “It’s getting warmer in SW Manitoba!”☀️🙌🏻💯
Sarah B. enjoying a crisp Sunday Spring100 walk with her beautiful family! 😍 Great job, Sarah!! 👏🏼
Sarah making Spring100 strides this week with adorable children and Sarah Grace L grabbing miles across the Golden gate bridge!! Great job, Ladies!! 💯♥️
New friends made for Kaitlyn R. as she grabs her Spring100 miles!! 🐮😁 LOVE IT!!
The Helzerman family from Central Pennsylvania checking in during a Spring100 Walk and Katelyn + Abby conquering a Marathon together for week 4 of the Spring100! 💯🎉🎉
Gabe + Sara grabbing Spring 100 miles while walking the Azalea trials in Tyler, Texas! What a gorgeous walking location. Great photo! 🙌🏻🌺💯
Dave and Millie, Joshua, Maryelle, and Ellie checking in for week 4! They enjoyed grabbing miles together at the Norton Gardens. Such a scenic location!! 🙌🏻👏🏼🎉
Love seeing Grace Chen enjoying a gorgeous Sp100 beach walk with her parents for week 4!! 🌊🙌🏻
Spring100er Olivia writes, “Arkansas weather can’t seem to make up its mind but we were so thankful at least one day this past week was so beautiful to walk in! My daughter made sure we had hats and our water bottles while we got in a mile or so(:” WONDERFUL JOB, ladies! So good to see you checking in.💯🏃🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
Great to see the Halbach family back at it this year!! All smiles as they grab their miles together for week 4.👏🏼🎉🙋🏼♀️
Delie and Hosanna H. enjoying a beautiful walk in the park for week 4 and Hannah V. writes, “Slow week with lots of rainy or extremely hot weather but I remembered to actually take a picture. Everything is finally greening up!! 😍” Such wonderful perseverance!! Great job, Ladies! 🙌🏻💯
David and Hillary walking Spring100 miles along the beach in Hawaii as they celebrate their 23rd anniversary! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! 🎉🌺♥️🙌🏻
From Florida to Arkansas! 🙌🏻 Sheri Claude, catching some miles in between Florida thunderstorms and The Silvey girls walking with Aunt Lynn this week! 💯
Reynolds checking in for week 4 as they tackle their miles together!! 👏🏼🎉
Scott S. running to the Spring100 finish line and the Swan crew having fun during a Sp100 Walk for week 4! Great job, y’all!!😃🙌🏻💯
everal Derbys, Mieczkowskis, and Jasters took a surprise Spring100 birthday walk for Kristin Jaster! What a fun walking group. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Kristin!! 🥳🎈
Mother-Daughter walking duo, Anna & Dana W., doing Spring100 in Maryland for week 4!! How adorable is the tiny turtle they found on their walk?!! 🐢😍
Hip Hip Hooray! So happy to have the Haabs family check in for week 4 of the Spring100!👏🏼💯
Rachel and Nathan getting extra miles in as they run the “Double Helix Dash” this past week! Great job!! 👏🏼🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼
Joel and Daniel Swaim enjoying a fabulous Sp100 walk with their Mother close to home in Lancaster County PA for week 4!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Rainy group walking photo from Mary M. and fun Spring100 Walking Selfie from Ingrid! Way to go conquering week 4. KEEP IT UP!👏🏼💯
Darleen and Addie grabbing Spring100 miles during a hike with family while on vacation!👏🏼💯
Caroline + Emma F. finding time to walk together and Erin S. + Amanda S. finding creative ways to walk together across the miles this Spring100!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏻
Craig siblings enjoying a cold evening walk together for week 4 of the 2022 Spring100!💯🙋🏼♀️
Love seeing all the friend walks!! 😃Andrea enjoying a beautiful hike with a dear friend in Golden, CO! Kina found time to enjoy a mile with the Bontrager girls for week 4!! Cherith and Leah doing Sp100 together! 👏🏼🙌🏻💯
Barth Sisters finding a sweet walking friend for week 4!! 😄👏🏼🐮
Abigail F. grabbing a mile in South Dakota and the Berlin ladies out for a track run for week 4!!👏🏼♥️
The Fells, Steurers, and Bernards walking Spring100 in Southeast Wisconsin!🙌🏻👏🏼💯
These walkers write, “So grateful for the Spring100! The focused, undistracted time with my children has been so sweet. We’ve been memorizing Psalm 121 together as we walk.” Praise the Lord! 🙌🏻 Victoria F. had a wintery mix for week 4 of the Spring100!!❄️🥶💯
Cahill and Nelson families enjoying a Spring100 walk together as they enjoyed sweet fellowship this past week! 👏🏼💯🙌🏻
Mabel and Lois C. checking in for week 4! They say, “Got to our walking in this week in this week in the Cumberland mountain park and the belle ridge state park. It was beautiful even though it tried to snow on us at first” Love the photos, ladies!! Keep up the great work.👏🏼♥️
The Mathews family stopped to watch a swimming beaver on a Spring100 walk this week! Great job, Mathews family!!👏🏼🎉💯
Ferguson family completing the Triple Crown of Running 15K in Louisville KY for week 4 of the Spring100!! WELL DONE!!!!🥇💯
Anna P. checking in for week 4 and Emily + Madison making time to do their Spring100 miles together!🎉🙋🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
Love this walking group! Reed family saying “hello” as they grab their Spring100 miles. Great job, Reed Family!! 🙋🏼♀️💯
The Carpenter Family + friend Sam and Naomi + Faith B enjoying time together for week 4 of the Spring100!!👏🏼💯
Elizabeth and Hosanna Brown enjoying sweet fellowship while walking in their neighborhood! Lovely photos, ladies!! 🙋🏼♀️♥️💯
Great friends and fellow Spring100ers grabbing a mile together! Left to right: Henry D., Wilson D., Luke M., Hallie D., Lilly M., Allison D., Katie M., Titus A., Justin M., Sugar the dog!👏🏼💯
Greta S. enjoying a walk with sweet friend and The Hagey Family checking in from Illinois! They say, “We are thanking the Lord for the beautiful Spring weather and flowers! “The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.” Isaiah 58:11″ THANK YOU!!🙌🏻💐💯
Cahill clan found a fun mailbox on their Spring100 walk around the neighborhood. LOVE IT! 😄🙌🏻
Sibling walks are always so much fun! Beate M. + siblings and Elizabeth + Lydia checking in for week 4.♥️🙋🏼♀️💯
Maxwell crew energetic and tackling their Spring100 miles together. Great to have you all check in!! 🙋🏼♀️💯
Jessica with her 5 children walking at Audubon Swamp located at Magnolia Plantation, Charleston SC and Liz M. + her girls enjoying a slightly chilly Spring 100 walk! To all the mothers out there persevering and grabbing miles with littles, WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!! You are inspirational. 👏🏼💯
This family grabbing a 5am Spring100 walk! 😱 THAT IS DEDICATION!!! Way to go Hearn family. So good to see you checking in for week 4!! 🙌🏻💯
Kellie saying hello as she grabs a mile in Michigan and Robert grabbed two miles at the Boone Country Arboretum in Kentucky this week with her lovely mother!💐🙋🏼♀️
Autumn L. checking in for week 4 with this fun Spring100 walking group!! Love the photo. 🙌🏻♥️
Moss men making miles matter as they enjoy time together for week 4 of the Spring100! 👏🏼💯 Great job, guys!!
Kezia + Hannah B and Hannah W. conquering week 4!! Great job. Keep it up, ladies!! 🙋🏼♀️💯
This photo made me smile!! Mrs. Anne Jones checking in from Bryan Tx and having fun. 🙌🏻💯
Anastasia, Brad, Yulia, and Josiah stopped by a creek while on a hike in Mt. Hermon, CA! Susanna A. and Adam A. enjoying their miles together for week 4.👏🏼💯
The B. and D. ladies enjoying a beautiful Spring100 walk together this past week!! What a lovely walking group. 🧡🙋🏼♀️
Grace L. sent in this gorgeous nature photo from her Spring100 walk! She says, “Memorizing Hebrews 12 during a few walks reminded me of the theme verse for this challenge!” LOVE IT!! Gracie and Claire S. enjoying beautiful Spring scenery for week 4!!🌺😍💯
My walks have been spent enjoying the sweet company of sisters for week 4!! Gorgeous texas sunsats have been greatly enjoyed. 😍 To every single person who sent photos in… THANK YOU!!!! If your photo didn’t make it into this week’s post keep on snapping and sending in. I am working on squeezing as many photos in each week as possible!! Let’s conquer the new walking week!!! 🙌🏻💯🏃🏼♀️🏃🏽♂️
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“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2
Sarah H
Our weather has been typically crazy GA weather….from 78 one day, to 48 a few days later. With some rain and windy weather this week, almost all of my miles have been walked inside. It allows me to get miles walked much quicker while my kids are playing or napping.
MJL
Praise the Lord for another week! 🎉🎉 Thank you for this encouraging post, Rachel!
劉展華 Chan-Hua Liu
The weather here in San Jose, California has been very nice these days. Not too hot and not too cold. It is very pleasant to walk/jog outdoors. The only drawback for me is that I have an allergy and I have to stay indoors if the pollen level is too high.
Megan Jones
I enjoy walking when the sun is out making the temperature just the right amount of warmth and the breeze lightly blowing to keep me cool. 😊 It is also really nice if you have shade from great marvelous trees! Have a great day everyone!
Hannah petersen
This week the weather has been all over the place for us! Going from 62 and sunny to 32 and snowing! But enjoying it none the less! Thank you Rachel for the encouraging post! I love all the verses!!
Happy walking!😊
Rachel
We’ve had some warm, sunny days as well as some beautiful rainy days here in our very unpredictable Ontario weather:)
Liz M.
The weather for my walks this past week, has been anywhere from warm and pleasant to chilly and windy. I’ve been trying to walk early before the winds pick up. I always look forward to these posts! Thank you Rachel!
Justus
It has been really WINDY.
Amanda
The weather here in Arkansas has been a bit crazy…some warm days with 80 degree temps, then some nights that got down into the 30’s, and LOTS of wind! 💨
As I was reading Hosea, I couldn’t help but think of the parallels between backslidden Israel and America today – “There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land” and, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” The theme in the book of God’s everlasting love was encouraging. It is amazing to think of the Father’s great love and mercy toward us, even when we go away from Him!
“I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in lovingkindness and mercy.”
Nila
Here in southern Manitoba last week was slightly warmer weather (in the low 40’s), but windy, windy, windy. This week will be different as lots of snow is in the forecast.
John Silvey
Well, I won’t tell you how the weather was here in Arkansas since my sister already did. 😁
When I first read this post, I honestly didn’t really remember how the weather was last week. 🙈
Caroline Flournoy
I thought I recognized the featured photo!😀 We were just at the Norton gardens last week when we went to see the Silveys!😄 It’s such a beautiful place!🥰
This week we had nice Spring weather with lots of sunshine.😁🌸🌿 Great pictures everyone!😀
Amy Cahill
Here in Texas it’s been very windy this week! We flew a kite one day and all the girls needed hair bands!
Holly
Unfortunately for my sister and I, it has rained or been bitterly cold and windy about 4 days out of every week since the challenge started. We’ll be making up the extra miles when the weather becomes a little less inclement, haha.
shericlaude
Some gorgeous location pictures this week!!! Some clever and some humorous pics!! So much fun!
Florida weather has ranged from chilly to hot. Lots of fluctuating at this time of year. You never know what you’re going to get. We even had a couple of thunderstorms.
My takeaway from Hosea this week is the amazing fact that God uses life experiences to expound and teach us about Himself and ourselves. In the case of Israel, He used Hosea and Gomer to teach them about their unfaithfulness and abandonment of God. They ran after other “lovers” other than the Lord, who was the One who took care of them and loved them; therefore, He turned them over to judgment because they had forsaken Him for the golden calf and Baal. God laments for His lost people! That hits me hard every time I read it.
I rejoice not in the judgment of Israel, (though God was perfectly just to judge them) but in the prophesied salvation granted to another people in the place of Israel. That mercy included me as a Gentile. “…I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” (Hosea 2:23)
Hosea has wonderful verses tucked among all the decrees of judgment. “Come and let us return unto the Lord: For he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.” (Hosea 6:1) God is so willing for reconciliation!
And the wonderful truth of the gospel that God doesn’t accept works, He only accepts His mercy given to us. (Salvation is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.) “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” (Hosea 6:6)
I love Hosea 10:12, about breaking up your fallow ground and seeking the Lord, and then there is the prophetic verse about Jesus: “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.” (Hosea 11:1)
Carey Carroll
This past week here in Central Alabama has been full of rain and strong winds! We were able to have 2 days of walking in the sunshine, though! Looking forward to the upcoming week to catch up on miles I missed and get focused on the challenge again!
Victoria F.
The weather here in west central Wisconsin has been pretty chilly & cloudy/rainy/windy for the past few weeks. Last week we got some snow, but it melted by the end of the day. This past weekend was nice & sunny and warm (got up to 60 degrees I think)! It has been a little bit of a challenge to find times to walk that are not raining or really yucky outside, but I am thankful for the few beautiful days we’ve had that were enjoyable to walk in!
My sister Karen got a nasty injury on her leg this week, and has been stuck on the couch this whole week. It will set her back a bit in the Spring100 challenge as she can’t really walk on her leg for a while, but she is still hoping to catch up later & complete the challenge. Prayers for her to heal quickly, would be appreciated! Thanks!
Martha Joy
Oh no!!! I’ll be praying for Karen’s healing and recovery!
Victoria F.
Thank you Martha!