There’s something aggravating about bed sheets and blankets being stirred around before the alarm goes off. When you don’t have to be up and awake yet but your spouse is awake and won’t be still!! You keep your eyes closed insisting to stay asleep when the light from his cell phone lights up the whole room! This is how our morning started. I think my prayer before sitting up was more like “OH LORD!” instead of “Good morning Lord.”
Sitting up in the morning isn’t all that easy either. After laying mostly in one position all night, everything on this ol gal’s body is stiff, sore and barely moving. Slowly and rolling are the two key words to getting out of the bed. Then there’s the feet, they haven’t worked all night so standing on them when you can’t feel them is entertaining. The walk to the bathroom is more like hobbling but I’m grateful to be moving.
It occurs to me most mornings and all the other times when my body is not functioning the way it used to that maybe I should have been more gentle with it….especially on the weekends! It’s funny but I am still in this pattern at almost age 52 where, during the week I do stretches (this counts as exercise!) drink lots of water, eat protein and veggies, prayer time daily, coffee and cream a few times, bible reading daily. When the weekend comes we eat out (nothing but carbs) go to the movies (popcorn w/butter) stay up late by the fire or watching TV or browsing pinterest and chasing and entertaining a grandchild. Come Sunday morning, my roll is so slow I am slowly rolling and finding it hard to get up for church but, I’m grateful for the freedom to attend even if I ain’t movin freely.
I’m not as wild on the weekends as in the old days. But there are weekends that I don’t actually spend any time praying or reading. I might offer up the quick request, or the grateful praise but some weekends my faith is slowly rolling. Is your faith rolling at all? Do your weekends get you off track or does your week need some faith too?
Join me as…we walk in faith seven days a week taking good care of our bodies, minds and spirits.
Psalm 101: 6 My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.
“Lord, we thank you for the freedom we have to worship you, to walk with you. Keep us ever mindful that our relationship with you isn’t just on Sunday. In Jesus name amen.”