Do What You Know You Should Do

Straight up: this time of year makes me want to be lazy.

It is a battle to exercise.

But I put my feet first and did it, even though I didn't feel like it.

I kept reminding myself that feelings tell me what I want to hear but truth tells me what I need to know. So I did it... and was surprised by a love note from God at the end.

Today, do what you don't feel like doing but know you should!

Thundering Approval

Since God always leaves me crosses, heart shaped leaves, and such on my walks, I decided to pause on my route back. I grabbed a couple of twigs and arranged a cross smack dab in the middle of the sidewalk for someone who may need it.

I stood up to admire the twig cross and pray for whomever was going to encounter it, when a GINORMOUS clap of thunder sounded.

Scared me to death.

But, I had a feeling that was God giving His approval...and telling me to scram and get home before He let the lightning and rain loose!

"God's voice is glorious in the thunder. We can't even imagine the greatness of his power." - Job 37:5

Tangible Reminders of Love

Every day God gives me reminders of his love, except I'm not always paying attention.

Every now and then, like this morning, He leaves a tangible reminder. Today's gift is my favorite way He communicates: a heart shaped leaf. It's so deeply personal to me.

Keep your eyes open... you never know how God is going to demonstrate His love in a way that's exceptionally personal to you.

He's crazy about you.

Standing At The Foot of the Cross... Really

It was a cold morning for a walk.

47 degrees cold.

I'm not quite ready for these temps. It doesn't even smell like autumn to me yet.

Nevertheless, I laced up my shoes, started out on my walk and promptly turned around to go back home and get my fleece jacket. I almost changed my mind at that point and thought about staying inside, but I told myself I needed to stick with it. I needed to go on my morning walk.

Straight up: I've been slacking. Slacking in my exercise, slacking in healthy eating habits, slacking in maintaining my stress levels... slacking in at all, it feels like.

My morning walk is my alone time. My me time. My time with God. My time where no one and no thing is pulling at me. I don't listen to music when I walk or run because I like to observe the things around me. I like to pray. This morning it was so quiet, I could hear the squirrels in the trees munching on acorns and dropping the shells to the pavement below. I nearly got dinged on the head by a squirrel mindlessly chucking an acorn shell.

Maybe I'm not as one with the squirrels as I originally thought.