In this podcast, Matt and Kerry Blacklock sit down with Chara Seib to discuss how to overcome in life. They are long distance runners and missionaries in Guatemala. They are the founders of the Community Transformation Foundation and Hijos De Dios Community Centre. Matt and Kerry explain the principles of being resilient that translate to sports, vocations and any difficult season life throws at you.

Prior to getting into ‘love’ let me lay a foundation. Many times, we think we are seeing clearly, but in reality we are only seeing a part of the whole. There is always something better.

Better food. Better music. Better sight. Better cars.

I think we all have had the experience where we thought we had something good until we realized that there was something better.

When I was single and in college, I would cook a dinner that I called: “The Bachelor’s Special.”

I was driving with my son Liam one day, and he asked me an interesting question. He had been mulling over all the problems from the past few years - COVID restrictions, politics, protests, news, etc. and he was frustrated.

Liam is a thinker and one of his deep desires is to see people treat one another with kindness and justice. Yet he was seeing a lot of skepticism in our world and the decline of truth.

He asked, “Dad how do you live in a skeptical world?

I woke up one morning 8 years ago thinking about the year 1973 and I felt that I had to write some words down. 1973 was the year I was born, but also the year that defined my generation.

I was up early one morning recently and I was reminded of a question I asked the Holy Spirit 30 some years ago. I was driving along in north Edmonton and paused for a pedestrian crossing the street. To paint a picture of this man I would describe his appearance as one of a street person, down on his luck with possible mental issues. In my own thoughts, my own mind, with no malice, I voiced this honest, simple question: “God, why do you create people like that?”

Our God is a God of truth. He is the Rock, the immovable Foundation. The Hebrew word for "Rock" indicates firmness, stability, and faithfulness. His truth doesn’t change to suit an agenda or situation. God can be trusted.

Who is the most important person in the room? Is it the one sitting in the front row? Is the well dressed person? The most educated? Or who has the most connections?

Perhaps it’s the one you don’t notice. The one bringing cold water to the thirsty.  Or an extra chair to the pregnant woman. The one whose arms are holding the hurting. Maybe it is the one you hardly see it all.

You can go through life enduring many things. Being an endurance athlete, I have learned to endure many things: pain, tiredness, bonking, heat, cold, snow, rain, mud, thoughts of quitting, delusions; just to name a few. But endurance is different than perseverance.

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