New Years - What Are We Going to Do With Our Little Longer Time

 

A New Year - God willing I see all of it, but if I do, what do I want to do with it?  Time is life's money.  Waste it on unnecessary spending and  one ends up broke and hungry.  So, with the year ahead.  It is a gift from God to experience this life a little longer.  So what do we do with a little longer?  Do we use it watching life go by, that is media, videos, television, movies, watching sports of some sort?  Or, do we get in the arena and become a life participant ourselves?  

And, one can ask, "What arena?"  Ah, there's the rub. There is a line from a song in the  movie "Flashdance."  It goes, "Take your passion and make it happen."  So what is the passion?    What lights our  fire?  

If there were not handicaps or obstacles to whatever passion you could pursue, what would that passion be?  It would appear to find that one thing would be a good goal for the coming newness of the year.  Is this the year we finally "dream the impossible dream"  and step and pursue it?

It's Time

 It's time to step out.  This day is all we have.  We can complain about it and call it hard names but it is the life we have, the one God gave us, not to do the SWC shuffle.  (Sit-whine-complain), but to live fully.  A song says "Live like there's nothing to lose."  There isn't.  There isn't anything we can keep here on this earth that won't be lost eventually Life has a short shelf life the label of which says "to be consumed within the dates of birth and death."  

So as resolution day approaches what can we give ourselves to that will enliven  our remaining days, bring out the hope to dream and try, and in so do show gratitude through the full experience of the life God has blessed us with. 

Let our journeys begin or continue, throwing off what slows us down or distracts us from what God put the passion in our hearts for. It is time - to run the race that is set before us. 

I It All Comes and Goes in Its Own Good Time

 This is a supper slump for training.  Not sure why.  Perhaps, the Christmas season and all we have here?  Perhaps, it is the fatigue from all the hard outside work I have been doing.?  Perhaps, it's the residual fatigue of months of 10-15 hours of weekly training in biking, lifting, running, mountain biking, and some swimming? And perhaps - I just had my 81st birthday - I am getting too old to cut the mustard anymore?

It really doesn't matter I guess.  I just need some rest, and more sleep, and   Then, perhaps, I will hit this training business full in the face, no stops.  

The truth is that I  have no event to train for.    I am not sure I ever will have something to train for again due to family situations.  Training out of reflex and for health doesn't possess the passion of purpose training for an event does. But, it all comes and it all goes in its own good time along the Miles of the Journey.  Thanks God for the journey. Now, I need to go to bed.  Have to train tomorrow.

It Didn't Fit the Moments

 A couple weeks ago I reached my goal for my 81st birthday by being able to do 82 pushups.   I thought at the time that maybe I could do a 100 on the actual day of my birthday.  Today , the day of my birthday,  I did all my other exercises down to the pushups.  

As I arched braced to do them I felt good that I would be able to do them.  But why?  Why do them?  Something felt  like it would be too many pats on the back - an all about me venture. Somehow it didn't seem right. It didn't  fit well.  This is my birthday.  For some reason I seemed to have a greater sense of humility today.  A friend just lost his wife.  Another person just lost her husband.  A relative is facing cancer treatment, and so on.  It didn't fit the moments.

This game just didn't seem appropriate on this day.  I have been much heralded today already for just living this long and still being able to complete a sentence.  Today, my heart is at rest.  I am grateful,

I stopped at 30 pushups and felt good about not going for gold.  Thank you God for that.  Thank you God for this Happy Birthday