Week 3 || 100MileMonday

Spring100 Featured Photographer: Shayna C.

Week 3 of this 13-week challenge has been accomplished! 💯 This Spring100 is filled to the brim with enthusiastic walkers/runners! Each photo and comment received has MADE MY DAY. Thank you! 🙌🏻 As I meditate on our Theme Word ENDURANCE for 2025, I was reminded last week that endurance is cultivated by being pushed beyond our current limits and persevering through an arduous, sometimes agonizing, experience of discomfort. Romans 5:3 tells us we can GLORY in this suffering, knowing it will produce endurance, character, and the end product HOPE. And hope does not put us to shame! As we enter week 4, I pray that whatever each of you may face this week, you will be given the strength to glory in it, knowing it will produce in you enduring hope! “We should not expect an easy path in the Christian life, but we should expect the grace to endure every hardship.” . Have fun with week 4 of the 2025 Spring100!!🙋🏼‍♀️

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Spring100 Weekly Meditation
We Rejoice

Romans 5:1-5 || Week 3

“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,  and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Romans 5:1-5

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: The tribulations of the saints are many and various, through the hatred of the world, the temptations of Satan, their own corruptions; and are the will of their heavenly Father; what Christ has foretold, and they expect; and here particularly design such as are for Christ’s sake, which being supported under, and carried through, they glory in: not that these are desirable in themselves, and to the flesh; but they glory in them as they are for Christ’s sake, and in a good cause; as they are trials of grace, and of use for the exercise of it: and as they are in the exercise of grace, amidst these tribulations, and are comforted under them, and are helped to have regard to the heavenly glory. The ground of which glorying is, that these afflictions are the means of promoting patience, experience, and hope:

knowing this, that tribulation worketh patience: patience is a grace, of which God is the author; it is one of the fruits of the Spirit; the word of God is the means of its being first implanted; and afflictions are the means of promoting it, when they are sanctified; otherwise they produce impatience, murmurings, and repinings; there is great need of patience under them; and, by divine grace, they are the matter and occasion of exercising, and so of increasing it.

And patience experience: As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the saints’ stock and fund of experience; of the love and grace of God communicated to them at such seasons; of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises; of his power in supporting them; and of their own frailty and weakness; and so are taught humility, thankfulness, and resignation to the will of God:

and experience, hope: hope is a gift of God’s grace, and is implanted in regeneration, but abounds, increases, and becomes more strong and lively by experience of the love, grace, mercy, power, and faithfulness of God.

And hope maketh not ashamed: As a vain hope does, things not answering to expectation, it deceives, and is lost; but the grace of hope is of such a nature, as that it never fails deceives, or disappoints: it neither makes ashamed, nor have persons that have any reason to be ashamed of it; neither of the grace itself, which is a good one; nor of the ground and foundation of it, the person and righteousness of Christ; nor of the object of it, eternal glory- John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible

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Don’t forget! These posts are made possible by YOU!! Your photo submissions and comments make these posts extremely fun and my job of putting them together super easy. Thank you! With hundreds of photos sent in weekly, my goal is to feature 50-75 photos in each 100MileMonday post. So, if your photo wasn’t selected, keep on snapping and submitting your Spring100 walking pictures for a chance to be featured!

“Taking a walk with my son Elias after the ice storm in Northern Wisconsin.” Jenny B.

“Kevin & Ruth C. enjoyed a quick walk among the beautiful azaleas & other flowers + flowering trees in East Texas!”

“Walking the new rail trail with my siblings!!” Maria S.

“The three mile hike to see Delicate Arch was so worth it! 😍” The Kroppies — “Strolling through the cherry blossoms” Deniece Z.

“Love walking with my children. Sometimes it takes more time to get out the door than to get our mile, but hey, we have fun! 😆” Charity B.

“Walk with my sisters!🫶🏼” Elizabeth — “Had an amazing early morning walk today! So thrilled to be part of Spring 100 2025!!” Olivia C.

“Hooper + Derby meet up in Texas, enjoying the gorgeous weather with a walk! ☀️” Lydia D.

Kristin J checking in for week 3 of the 2025 Spring100. What a gorgeous Spring100 Walk! 😍 — “Amazing sunset featured in my walk a few days ago! 😁” Royal A.

“Beautiful walk/hike on sunday on my Trip to Scotland with my Mom! It was amazing!” Noemi V.

“Spring has sprung in East Texas and we enjoyed a beautiful sunset Monday night as we got in some more Spring 100 miles!” Sara C.

“Sunrise hike to get some miles in!” Betty L.

“Went for an evening walk with my dog and got some really cool pictures!!” Caleb S. — “Hiking by the lake! :)” Doris B

Katelyn W. and crew checking in for week 3!! 🙌🏻💯

“Enjoyed a nice walk.🚶‍♀️😊” Victoria F. — “Took a long walk then decided to sprawl out on the grass😂” Faith B.

“Soaking up the spring sunshine here in CO!” Julie Z. — “Beautiful morning for a walk here in Pennsylvania!” Pamela W.

“Went on a walk with Autumn. ☺️” Haven K.

“Taking a break at the park while walking with my sister Anna! 💞” Beth — “Finally able to get some miles in outside after a week of cold and snow!” Heather L.

“Spending time with my sweet nieces!” Elizabeth F.

“3k and half mile race! We had a great time! 😊🏃‍♀️” Elizabeth F.

“A walk on my daughter’s third birthday!” Kassidy N.

“Wilson and Fuhrmann girls enjoying an evening walk!” Lucy W.

“Snowy walk” Andrew G. — “Enjoying sister time on a beautiful Spring 100 walk!” Jena, Laura & Rosey McNaughton

“Enjoying a fun spring walk with friends!” The Schmechels

“At Point Pelle !” Anna L. — “Hike with a friend 💗perfect therapy @ Women’s Alliance Hermiston Oregon.” Cindy

“….one of our favorite family traditions now.. admiring all the springing buds of the season together while widdling away our 100 miles. Blessings from the Plocharczyk Family.”

“This week felt like summer in TN! The dogwoods are blooming and we had 85° for a couple days! It was beautiful for getting out and adding on the miles! ♥️ we are loving Spring100!” Lauren K. — “We Alexanders were grateful to capture one more Spring100 walk with our dear friend, Kimia B, before she returned home to CO!” Darlene A.

“10 inches of snow today!” Matthew G. — “Beautiful evening for a walk in NCK Kansas!🤍” Ruth S.

“Noelle, Nicole and Scott Schafer.”

“Woods miles one after the other while counting blessings on this warm albeit cloudy spring day!” Caroline M. — “More than 1/3 of the way there! The weather in Michigan is finally starting to get more enjoyable to run in. 😂” David J.

“Our top walker ended up with a badly cut foot, but at the rate it’s healing, she’ll soon be on the go again! Todays walk was extra adventurous, after having probably 10” of rain in the past 2 days.” LouAnn G.

“Getting our miles in rain or shine!” Emily D. — “Me and my brother went on a walk. We had fun!” Keely

“Having fun trying to take our picture before it started raining! We barely made it!😄” The Reeds

“Puddles make walks so much more exciting!” The Hoversons — “A walk in the park in the Fraser Valley, BC, Canada” Janet T.

“Taking a break from homework and walking around campus 🤍” Hannah P.

“Enjoying putting in miles as much as being in the end of pregnancy allows!😅 My son loves these walks!” Rebecca E. — “Logging some beautiful miles are always better with a buddy!☀️❤️” Sarah M.

“Saw a pair of pileated woodpeckers on our walk this afternoon!” Ruth E.

“A walk through the woods and redbud blossoms.😊” Sabrina C. — “Some fun miles together.” Sarah O.

“Stopped to take a hike in Louisiana during our first sibling road trip!” Sierra R.

“Out for a walk with my son!🥰” Sarah D. — “Hittin’ the miles in the mud today! (Yep, dogs just love cameras😉😅)” Jay S.

“Walking in Lowe’s due to the rainy weather.” Patrick N.

“I enjoyed an evening walk with my sisters!” Susanna A. — “Our family was able to stop and walk at this neat place, Galien River County Park, in Michigan on our way home from a wedding! :)” Bronwyn & Aliyah H

“Lauren and her mom Lisa enjoying getting some miles in together!” Lisa W. — “Fun yet slippery walk at hoggs fall” Suzy S.

“A rain boots and puddles kind of walk.🤗🤩” Salome P.

“Afternoon walk through the pasture.” Hudson B. —“Getting my daily walk in with my 2 granddaughters and we had to stop and watch the sheep grazing in the pasture.” Susan S.

“Spring 100 walks make for great family time!” Elisabeth M.

“Sibling walks in beautiful, windy Kansas! 🌻😊 “ Maleiah, Colton and Sierra B

“I have really enjoyed walking with my siblings and being able to see all of the beautiful spring scenery that God has created!”

Texas weather has been an adventure for week 3! I’ve been bundling up, dodging puddles, and grabbing miles in between thunder storms this past week. Looking forward to drying sunny days but thankful for the much-needed rain.🌧💯 I hope week 4 is a blessing in special ways for each of you!! ENJOY your walking/running and keep up the fabulous work. 🙋🏼‍♀️

 “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?” Matthew 6:25-27