If I get nothing else out of this three month long excursion I will at least have extremely toned legs. All of the walking that Linda and I have been doing has been really great for several reasons. Firstly, the exercise is wonderful, and it's easier to exercise in disguise. The gym is so overwhelming and intimidating sometimes that it's nice to say to yourself, "I'm just using my legs as a means to get to a place," even though that place is over 3 miles away from you. Secondly, I feel that you get to know a place better when walking. You don't have any excuse to miss landmarks. You see things that you just wouldn't see on a bus or in a car. You can also see more of the character of the place you are in when you learn back roads and places that are off the beaten track. It's exciting. But the most important reason that walking has been so great has been the conversation. I feel that given enough road, time and tobacco Linda and I might actually solve some pretty major issues through discussion and contemplation. Like world hunger....
It's always nice to see the the array of reasons that God puts us in certain places. It's a beautiful display of Faith/Love/God and so forth to know that you would follow Christ anywhere based on only one reason. Because at the time when you are called you can only perceive one of God's reasons for sending you. Then as you live out the will of God his multiple purposes unfold.
"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrew 11:1
It's far too often I look at the things in my life and feel jaded. Like somehow I got some short end of some stick. I feel like the best moments are the moments that God humbles me by showing me just how much he has blessed me with. All at once I have a new found appreciation for my friends and family and my life as a whole and I become contented in exactly where I am. Even if I am lost in a pit of confusion about where I'll end up in life. I can be excited about not knowing or caring because I see how God has blessed me so far.
Linda and I were discussing these verses the other day:
"Ask, and it will be given to you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. For which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" Matthew 7:7-11
How incredible is that! If anyone is ever not feeling special they should read those verses. How a God in heaven could want to shower us in great (heavenly) gifts is beyond me! But it definitely puts an end to any pity parties I ever have!
This passage was inspired by all of my friends and family! I couldn't have picked you out of a magazine. You all are the greatest people I've ever seen and I get to call you mine! I love you guys. You know who you are! I pray for heavenly gifts and blessings for you all!
"I feel that given enough road, time and tobacco Linda and I might actually solve some pretty major issues through discussion and contemplation."
ReplyDeleteAs long as my hips don't go out.. cos at that point I've only got a few years left.