One opinion can wreck our whole day.
One opinion can destroy our whole mood.
One opinion can demolish our whole level of success.
Why?
Why do we let one simple opinion do that?
The wise statement is so very true:
“Care about what others think, and you will always be their prisoner.” – Lao Tzu
Enough said.
Let it go and go do better.
The fear of man brings a snare,
Proverbs 29:25
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.
How often do you walk or run?
Honestly, I don’t run at all. It’s actually not a good choice over the long haul. I know. I know. All the runners out there are scoffing right now. I’m sorry. I’ve read too much about the detrimental effect running has on your knees and all of your joints.
And I have watched personally a man in our community who proudly proclaims how much he runs (minimum 5miles) every day. I’ve seen him run in our community for the last 22 years, and he doesn’t look healthier. He looks older, more bent over, and stiff. Now, I know he’s only one example, and I’m sure you could give me a list of runners who are not so.
But I also have a troublesome knee that won’t let me run much. We did a running program a few years ago, and I was so excited to pick up my long forgotten running record from high school and try it again. To give a little background, in HS, we’d always have to do those fitness tests twice a year (yes. I know I’m that old. Lol), and we’d run all year long. So, I’d leave the girls behind and run with the guys. I usually would finish 4th to 5th place running anywhere from 5.30-6min miles. Once, I completed a 4.55minute mile, but I think I could’ve died that day. Haha.
Anyway, that’s nothing to brag about. There were three other guys who were lightening speed in comparison, and I’m sure some could read this and think that’s rather slow. Regardless, that’s not the point to this post…
So, I do try to walk, but I’m not consistent to do it everyday, and I certainly don’t walk as much as I probably should or even could. I read post by a good blogging friend, Linda Schuab over at Walkin’ Writin’, Wit & Whimsy, and I find goals I’d like to meet in my walking routines.
So, my goal is to just get out and do it! I am shooting for 3-5 days a week right now. And this week, I’ve got three days down and hope fully, I’ll have a chance to walk this evening; so, that would give me a four day week.
Here’s to walking and making a point to walk some more! ☺️
How about you? Are you a walker or a runner? What do you like about it, and what is a pain about it? I’d love to know!
Describe your ideal week.
My ideal week seemed to have happened this past summer. We spent some time out West in the beautiful scenery of The Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. And it simply took my breath away. Again.
It wasn’t my first time. We went last year, and I went when I was in High School, and we may very well go again next summer. We love it that much.
I read an article or a Fb post recently that described exactly how I felt about it: “Why do you love it? … Because it’s wild. … Imagine a place where you gaze from horizon to horizon and don’t see the hand of man, only God’s.” Yes. This. That’s one of the many reason it is the land that I love. It calls to me.
So, my ideal week was spent living in a cute little home on the other side of the mountains, in a little town in Idaho. We’d drive through the mountains to get to the parks, or we’d drive north to enter the park from the other side. We’d go watch a rodeo down the road or tool on over and go to the zoo in Idaho Falls. We’d walk in downtown Jackson to enjoy the sights, the sounds, and of course, the beautiful antler arches on the square.
We’d go find a hike with a waterfall or an alpine lake, and I’d enjoy the sidelines while my husband snorkeled that crystal clear, frigid, c-o-l-d lake. We’d get up early and drive into town to enjoy a hot, homemade breakfast or come back from our afternoon adventures to enjoy a huckleberry shake at the local emporium.
It was a glorious (almost) two weeks, and we didn’t want to come home! It’s a place to explore, to relax, and simply to breathe.
Yeah. I’m ready for my ideal week already. Let’s go again! And until then, if you catch me napping, I might just be dreaming of my ideal week…
The heavens declare the glory of God;
Psalm 19:1
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Sometimes,
a good swing session is like therapy…
And if at first, it doesn’t help,
just keep swinging…
It was truly therapy…
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
I’m not sure I use the word regularly, but it’s a word that gets on my nerves if I hear it a lot. If I find myself using it, I work hard to change it because it seems I’m using it as a sentence filler or a pause in the moment because I’m distracted.
I notice it most when I’m listening to someone speak publicly it on a video or something, and they say Umm too much. It can become like a “tic” or routine in someone’s speech that they don’t even realize until they begin to listen back to their conversations and recognize the bad habit.
Are you holding a grudge? About?
It’s almost funny, that the daily prompt today is asking if you’re holding a grudge, and my blog post earlier today was about forgiveness.
As they say, maybe great minds do think alike. Lol.
Do I hold a grudge? No. I’d have to say not because I’ve learned forgiveness is more important and more freeing than holding grudges that I could rightfully hold.
Yet, for some whose relationship has been effected by my distance and even my walking away, their narrative could be different. But sometimes, toxicity must be avoided at all costs. And that’s where the judgement begins.
But to hold a grudge means your intent will eventually be to bring harm. Holding a grudge has the intent of revenge. Holding a grudge has the motives of destruction.
Holding a grudge is rooted in the foundation of unforgiveness. Holding a grudge brings resentment and bitterness. Holding a grudge actually brings more harm to you than it does to those against whom the grudge is held.
That grudge will create a prison in which you’ll live if you’ll let it. That grudge will be the hot iron that you think you’re grasping in your hand, yet the longer you hold it, the more it burns your flesh and all those closest to you.
But if you’ll release that grudge, it’s like releasing the hot iron to go back into the fire from whence it came. And the release brings you more freedom than you could ever imagine.
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Ephesians 4:31
This statement is the proof between maturity and immaturity.
It is the difference in the choice driven life and victim driven life.
It is the challenge of every human being alive.
You can either grow through your pain or allow it to consume you.
You can either choose to let it change you for good or for evil.
You can either live with determination or excuses.
It is up to you, and what you choose, what you allow will determine not only your outcome.
It will very likely determine the outcome for your children and/or those around you.
So, what will you choose?
How will you grow?
And who will reap the benefits ..or consequences?
Choose wisely, please.
And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15
We all want to have significance. Don’t we?
But what will you do to get it?
Will you beg, borrow and steal?
Will you sweat, toil and sacrifice?
Will you push and prod, stepping over or on those who get in your way?
Will you eat humble pie and serve those around you to become great?
To what measure will you strive to succeed and become significant?
And to whom are you seeking the same and acknowledgement?
Remember this:
What you bow down to on your way up the ladder of success will OWN YOU on your way back down.
Choose wisely.
Choose sparingly and carefully.
For too many owners makes the slave exhausted and weary…
And the success so much less to be desired.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19-20
Healing is never easy.
Healing is not for wimps.
Just as a broken bone takes time to mend, it takes time for a wounded heart to heal.
Really, more often than not, it takes longer for the heart to take the journey of reconciliation.
And sometimes, the healing, the mending, and the restoration of peace and sanity may come while reconciliation never does.
Forgiveness is for the heart to heal and for the soul to be freed.
Forgiveness may not bring the reconciliation that was once hoped for or demanded.
For some things can be so damaged, the body cannot be recovered.
For some things can be so destroyed, the explosion left nothing but the crater that had already been formed.
For some things can be lost forever.
Never demand harmony when you’ve caused the destruction.
Never demand compromise when you were the source of the wound.
These are hard words to receive and much harder ones to actually live out.
But we all live by grace, and by grace we go forward.
So, forgive again and again.
Repent as needed.
Heal over and over.
And leave the rest up to the Creator of your soul.
For He knows all, and He will bring healing that soothes the soul and brings redemption.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
Jeremiah 7:14
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
Jeremiah 33:6
He who covers his sins will not prosper,
Proverbs 28:13
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Keep going.
Keep striving.
Keep achieving.
Their words don’t matter.
They didn’t call you.
He did.
Stay on mission.
We’re not home yet.
And we have a battle to win.
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14
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