It is official – on Aug 6, after 20 yrs of waiting, I will begin my Master’s Degree! While so much has changed since my graduation and with life throwing some wicked curve balls my way, I am still on the timetable I set all those years ago. I put the idea of family before self and I am being abundantly blessed for my decision.
Today I discovered a new twist on the idea that “fun” equals “pain”.
Today’s fun – a two mile walk with two spurts of running added in because I felt too good to run just once.
While this was a major accomplishment for me, the feelings of joy diminished greatly a few hours later when to my agony, my right foot unceremoniously cramped.
Due to the morning’s joyful running, I am now denied another joy – walking barefoot around my house. While massage, and later ice, offered relief to my poor foot, only the wearing of shoes provides for limp free walking.
When I was young and much healthier than today, I would have bemoaned such an annoying injury. Today I have learned to celebrate my “battle wound” with ice cream and a good ole’ sappy movie.
Of course I use a passive-aggressive voice, I wouldn’t have any friends if I used an aggressive voice.
Passive- aggressive voice…..
When natural forces wreak havoc, does it help to know you are part of a shared calamity? Or does the magnitude of nature’s devastation isolate you in a feeling of despair?
Have hope, for if you are still alive to hope for a tomorrow, then today is still a blessed day.
* shared the clip later.
When we are young, emotional molehills seem like mountains and physical mountains seem like molehills. When we are old, it reverses.
North, south, east or west, a half mile hike is relatively the same. Up and down…
The gentle incline… steep was yet to come.
…well that is another matter.
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Try big, fail big if necessary, but put your full effort behind your attempt. For even the Lord has a problem with mediocrity.
15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
When the day ends sadly no matter how hard you tried, hot cocoa and a warm quilt acts as a hug for the battered soul.
