Week 10 || 100MileMonday

Spring100 Featured Photographer: Samantha Flournoy

Week 10 has been accomplished by God’s grace!! Well done, everyone.👏🏼 We officially have 25 days left in this 2025 Spring100 Walking Challenge! 25 days to grab your remaining miles and finish strong. You got this!! Yes, I know. Many of you are tired. Many of you are just a little behind and having to work extra hard to catch up. But believe me, crossing the Spring100 finish line will be so worth the effort you put in! As I type this, I am reminded of James 1:12, where we are called BLESSED when we endure and reminded of the promised crown of life that awaits us who are in Christ. Whether it be the Spring100 walking challenge or your spiritual race here on earth, keep your eyes on the prize and finish strong. By His grace and for His glory!!! We are almost there… let’s do this!🙋🏼‍♀️🙌🏻 ENJOY week 11!! 💯

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Spring100 Weekly Meditation
Blessed is the man who endures

James 1:12 || Week 10

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
James 1:12

It is not every man who suffers, that is blessed; but he who with patience and constancy goes through all difficulties in the way of duty. Afflictions cannot make us miserable, if it be not our own fault. The tried Christian shall be a crowned one. The crown of life is promised to all who have the love of God reigning in their hearts. Every soul that truly loves God, shall have its trials in this world fully recompensed in that world above, where love is made perfect. The commands of God, and the dealings of his providence, try men’s hearts, and show the dispositions which prevail in them. But nothing sinful in the heart or conduct can be ascribed to God. He is not the author of the dross, though his fiery trial exposes it. Those who lay the blame of sin, either upon their constitution, or upon their condition in the world, or pretend they cannot keep from sinning, wrong God as if he were the author of sin. Afflictions, as sent by God, are designed to draw out our graces, but not our corruptions. The origin of evil and temptation is in our own hearts. Stop the beginnings of sin, or all the evils that follow must be wholly charged upon us. God has no pleasure in the death of men, as he has no hand in their sin; but both sin and misery are owing to themselves. As the sun is the same in nature and influences, though the earth and clouds, often coming between, make it seem to us to vary, so God is unchangeable, and our changes and shadows are not from any changes or alterations in him. What the sun is in nature, God is in grace, providence, and glory; and infinitely more. As every good gift is from God, so particularly our being born again, and all its holy, happy consequences come from him. A true Christian becomes as different a person from what he was before the renewing influences of Divine grace, as if he were formed over again. We should devote all our faculties to God’s service, that we may be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.-Matthew Henry

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QUESTION: As we have made it 68 days into this 2025 Spring100, have you experienced any benefits (physical, spiritual, emotional) from being a part of this challenge and adding walking to your daily routine? I would love to hear! CLICK TO COMMENT NOW

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“Enjoying beautiful Colonial Williamsburg while getting a few miles in!” Nicole

“Getting some miles at the Outer Banks! 😁☀️” Halbach Family

“With some competitive motivation from a fellow Spring 100er I just crossed the 100 mile mark! Now to see if I can get 50 more miles in by the end of spring…” Anthony L. 🥳💯 WAY TO GO! — “Grabbed around 6 miles in Paris with my sister!” Karen P.

“A battlefield hike with the family! So thankful to be all together for a few days!” Baker Family

“Walking on rainy days make rainy days fun!” Angela L — “Putting in some miles on the beach in Florida! 😊” Mercy G.

“Finished my 100 miles!!! It was my first year doing the Spring100, and it was so much fun; definitely doing it again next year!! 😄💯” Charlotte R. 💯🥳🎉 CONGRATULATIONS! — “180 running miles for this spring so far for William! He finished his first half marathon in Manhattan KS.”

“Ruth D. and Jon M. got to finish their miles on the Appalachian Trail in New Jersey!” Bethany M. 🥳🥳💯 WAY TO GO!

“A lovely evening walk with my aunt, mom, and sister (who’s behind the camera 😁).” Amanda S. —“Beautiful evening. ✨🌅” Hannah T.

“Visiting family in Missouri. A walk on this gorgeous evening trying to get my last miles in for Spring100❤” Paula S, Pennsylvania

“Beautiful walk on the beach!🌅🤍” Jennifer D.

“Walking in sunny TX. :)” Neely Family

“Took a walk around the Daniel Boone Homestead during a long permit drive🤩” Faith B. — “Hiking in south east Missouri with family is the best!” Sheri G.

“Taking a walk this beautiful morning with my sister-in-law, bestie, and sister. I only need five more miles until I reach 100!!!” Charlotte

“I finished my 100 miles early this week.😀 I was able to finish the last couple miles at the same time, long distance, with a friend – totally made my day!😊” Sabrina C. 🙌🏻🥳👏🏼 WAY TO GO!!! — “Catching a morning walk with Mom❤️” Lucy

“A sunny Sunday walk on our country road in Estonia. God is so good.” Anna B.

“We are enjoying getting in some miles in San Carlos, Mexico and celebrating our first year of marriage.” Aaron and Magaly G. — “Took a misty evening walk after a very rainy day!” Laura Menkin

“Walking at sunset in North Dakota!😀” Lillian N.

“Finished the 100 and still counting with sunset beach walks!” Janae E. 🥳💯 WAY TO GO!!!!!

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.” Enjoying some blue skies here in Arkansas!” Sarah S.

“A fun walk after a long day!!” Janae M. — “Tami Swaim and son Joel getting miles in over memorial weekend at camp Greenwood hills in Fayetteville Pennsylvania.”

“The whole family together again since Thanksgiving! Hiked some trails at Lake Harbor Park along Lake Michigan. Seven out of nine of us are part of Spring100 this year!” Sarah P.

Aletheianna B.

“We enjoyed a little hike and watching the sunset with friends this weekend!😀” The Reeds

“The blue skies have been gorgeous!! 😍 Briana finished her miles this week and Celeste and I are coming down the home stretch!” Autumn L. — “Gorgeous walk today! Almost finished!! 3 miles to go!!” Olivia C.

“Walking in the rain with my sisters. Rain makes greenery look so much greener! :)” Sarah P.

“Spontaneously decided to take a picnic lunch to a nearby state park and walk my miles along a trail that went around the lake. A very nice change of scenery!” Julia G.

“Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13