Healthy mind, healthy body

I have been thinking lately (dangerous I know) that while I consider myself relatively healthy, I may only be deceiving myself. I don't exercise. I eat pretty much what I want (case in point --- I treated myself to Chik-fil-A for lunch and upsized my waffle fries to large). I don't have a regulary "going to bed" time. I don't drink enough water. Hmmmm........ wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I take medications for hypertension and high-cholesterol?

So, in the next week and a half, before reporting back to work, I want to implement better eating habits and start exercising again. I even have my own treadmill, for goodness' sake, so I can't allow "can't get to the YMCA" to make a difference in whether I exercise or not.

Hopefully, my next posting will be positive results in the physical health arena.

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Now for the healthy mind part. I know what my biggest problem here is as well. Oh, I'm taking classes and enriching my head knowledge. However, I do not read my Bible regularly. Shameful for a pastor's wife to admit on the WWW, but if we're being honest here........ admit I must. So, another commitment I want to make is to God Himself that I want to get to know Him better, listen to Him closer, and understand His character by reading His Word every day.

Again, my prayer is that the next posting will find me deep in the pages of Scripture and asking a lot of questions of the Lord...... that's how we get to know someone, right? We listen to their words and ask them questions........

Reflections for today

Today is a busy day. Finished the preliminary draft of the workbook for our church's upcoming prayer retreat. In the middle of wrapping that up, I thought I'd check my Facebook friends out. There was a video posted called "Rain" by Rob Bell with Nooma. I don't know if you've seen any of the Nooma videos, but they are awesome and will make you pause and think about things seriously. This video deals with the subject of making it through the storms in life. It took me by surprise: not the content of the video, but at some point it touched me very strongly and I just broke down and wept; for no apparent reason. There is something there, so I am opening up my spiritual eyes to see what God has in store for this retreat.