Finally with many thanks to my great friend Jim Dupre, I can now get behind my computer again and continue my blogging!
Before I begin my blog, I want to give thanks to God, my wife, my family, my friends, and all of my supporters who believed that I would complete this mission. I also want to thank those who did not believe and now see that nothing is impossible with God and a person who is willing to do what is required for success.
I actually started this journey almost two years. I completed the Kentucky Derby Marathon on April 19, 2014 and the Marine Crops ("The People's Marathon") Marathon in October 2014; thus, I knew that I could complete 27 miles in each of the 67 Counties of Florida.
What one must have to do in order to convince your wife that you can do run six miles and cycle 21 without any problems! I share this with my readers because not only having to convince my wife and showing her proof that I can do this journey across Florida; I had to convince my wonderful doctors in Dr. Luis Pozniak and Dr. Jonathan Jay along with their staff that I had fully recovered from my kidney removal and battle with cancer since 2008.
I share this to help you the reader understand how special this is to me to complete this journey and establish for me and others my commitment to our youth in their mastery of the Constitution and Civic Education.
As much as I enjoyed the accomplishment of this mission, I am well aware that my final goal is no way completed. The accomplishment of completing 27 miles in each of the 67 counties was just one major step in this life journey.
I will continue knocking on the door until the 200,000 plus fifth grade students of Florida has a Constitution booklet in their hands.
My mentor and great friend Dr. Robert J. Safransky continued as he has always pushed me to another level just when I figured that I have done what was required. He said, "Joseph, do you remember what you said got you through basic training as a young man; 'Good better best never let me rest until my good is better and my better is best' it is not about what you have done so far is much better than most will ever accomplish, but rather, your best is yet to come."
I will continue to ring the bell and knock on the doors of every educational leader and educational policy maker until our youth have the proper resources for their success. I know that it is not only the best and proper thing to do but as I read my scriptures and the recommendation given to me by my mentor I knew that my best was just to come.
If you have followed my blogs over the past months, you are aware that I love to give you quotes to inspire you. I believe that this one below is perhaps one of the best you will ever read that I will share with you:
"And I tell you, ask and you will receive, seek and you fill
find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks,
receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door
will be opened.”
- Gospel according to Luke – II:5-13
Please continue to follow my summary of the completed Journey Across Florida because I have some very exciting news to share with you from my experiences across the Sunshine State!
Joseph
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