Non-rainy Saturdays are meant for running. Trouble is, I need to find some Tuesdays and Thursdays to run too. My coach (aka "husband") handed me an article to read this morning about running a 5K every weekend...or at least once a month. I haven't read it yet but I'm already thinking it's a good idea. I consider myself a hard worker with a good work ethic but I SO need accountability factors built in to whatever I do or I get sooooo lazy. No one coming home for dinner? I'd eat popcorn every night! No deadline on that project? It would move to the bottom of the pile. Goals, benchmarks, check-ins are my motivators. That's not to say I always reach or exceed the goals, they just help me move along toward action.I was walking out the door this morning and one of my walking buddies was just passing our house so she and I walked at a good clip for about my first mile and then we separated for her to continue her walk and for me to start my run. I ended up covering a lot of distance (=walk + run) and I listened to my Chestertown Race playlist. "Burn, Baby, Burn" got me up another hill! "Waterloo" got me running again when I just wanted to walk.
And then it was a line from Waterloo that gave me some thoughts...
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
And I thought about another book on the shelf that is part history book...The Bible. Too bad we couldn't just learn from what the Israelites learned or the messages of the prophets or all of the wise advice to all of those churches that Paul visited and wrote to.
Why can't God just say it once and we'll listen and obey? Why is it that I can read the same book or chapter or even verse many times and it's as if I'm reading it for the first time? Am I that dense? That forgetful? That disobedient? Or have I not built in enough accountability that I need to listen and obey?
I'm not striving for perfection, just a little better at remembering the lessons. How do you do it?
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What a coincidence - I used to live on popcorn! It doesn't seemed very well rounded. Does it even count as a vegetable?
ReplyDeleteI don't know why you are so negative about your reading. If you took away the same message every time you read something I would think you lack imagination and the ability to grow. I see the ability to find new things to be a sign of life, so it is a great thing.
Aren't the races also fun, especially this time of year? Nice weater, lot of people and excitement, and good food afterwards.....what's not to like?
ReplyDeleteBill...it's not that I don't think you can get a different message each time, I do. Lots depends on what's going on in life when it's read. It's the not "getting" the message. It's what I bring to confession each time. "Uh oh...forgot again!"
ReplyDeleteYes...Art...this is a good time of the year to be running. Probably a small window though, isn't it?
It's a happy day when Abba makes it into your reflection time!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Praise Habit now by David Crowder. I haven't gotten to "the point" yet but I see him trying to find a balance between a mindless habit and a daily revelation. I think those little revalations are good, they're like the little fertalizer pieces in potting soil. You think it's just another Bible verse you've read before and WHOA, God does a new thing!