"It is well with my soul"

I have been pretty busy with school work. It is hard enough to adjust after summer to having to study again, but being in a different country makes it all the more challenging. There is so much else I would rather do here than reading Italain Fasicm. But, I am learning discipline and time managment! I think mom would be proud, in my senior year of college, im finally getting it! This means most mornings I wake up around 7:00am so that I can go for a run before class. Hannah has decided that she will run with me, and I am impressed by her efforts! For just starting back at running, she is doing good keeping up. I love this time of my the day. I really do enjoy running. This is a statment I never thought I would make, but for once it is true! It is flat in 3 directions around Sansepolcro. Hannah and I normally take one of these routes and then turn back to face the mountians has we return to the town. It never seizes to surprise me when I turn around to face those Tuscan mountians. Everymorning as we begin the journey home, I raise my hands in worship of creater for his creation. I laugh and breath the morning air. The mountains reveal their glory as the sun peaks above them. This is the most beautiful part of my day and my heart is filled with joy and inspiration. I know in this moment without a doubt that my God loves me and is well pleased with his creation. If he created something so vast, just how much bigger is he than it?
As Hannah and I am return to the town, we are greeted by well dressed Italians in the morning bustle. Of this I am sure- I know the Italians must think I am crazy in my running gear. If it is not because of my purple stretchy pants or my morning hairdue, but because moving faster that walking speed is abnormal! I have been adviced thats swimming is good for "burning calories". I wonder what Taylor and Christina would think about me exchanging running for swimming. I wish I could swim a marathon!