I finished my four mile run today and decided that I didn’t want to share with you the specifics about my run.  Instead I wanted to tell you why I run.

I want to share a video with you that tells the story about why I started training to run the Nashville Marathon next April.  Most of my life I have worked and acted to provide for myself and my family.  My focus was keeping my children, my wife and I healthy, well-fed and comfortable.  But now I’m at the point in my life that I realize there are so many others who need our support and assistance.  For “Big Ben” in this video, he needs our help just to survive.

To hear a father say “Ben’s dying” when speaking of his son breaks my heart.  I watched this video of Ben struggling to fight a relentless illness and his family trying to cope with the impending loss of their son.  St. Jude Children’s Hospital was there to do all they could for Ben and his family.  They fought the disease along side Ben, they educated and consoled the parents, and in the end, they used the knowledge they gained from Ben’s experience to try and help others like him.  All of this is at NO COST to the family.

Please watch this video and consider joining me in supporting St. Jude Children’s Hospital.  You can donate directly about part of my fundraising run by visiting http://bit.ly/jimsrun/.