All I can say is thank God! Yesterday and today have been very vital moments in my quest to revitalize my life. On yesterday, when I got off work, I decided to go for a run. I had a lot on my mind and usually running helps me to sort out my thoughts. Now I have to be honest, I haven't been working out like I set out to. I have been working on other things and letting those assignments get the best of my time. I tell myself that I either get off too late or don't have enough time in the morning. Well, last night brought all that to a halt. After I finished running, I took a shower and just relaxed. I sat back and did some real thinking. After all of this thinking I went to bed, but before I went to sleep, I grabbed my bible and just starting flipping through it. I finally ended up in the book of Proverbs and this is what starting me on my new journey. The verses that I read spoke about knowledge and understanding. I can't tell you verbatim what the verses said, but I can tell you that it made me get up this morning and go running.
Now mind you, I went running last night. But that didn't stop me. I had this thought while I was sleeping. the thought was that I had enough time to do the things I set out to do but I had to rearrange some of the things I was doing with my time in order to make everything work out. Instead of going to Starbucks every morning, I could use that time to go workout. Not only could I work out, but I could also post to my blog afterwards because I would have plenty of time left. Going to Starbucks is just a mental luxury that helps me get my day started. So this is why I decided to get up and at this morning. Well, once I finished running, and showered, I noticed my wife was still at home. Now usually, we leave at the same time. When I saw that she wasn't gone, I knew that I still had time to go to Starbucks. This was amazing! Here I was fussing about not having enough time to do what I needed to do and what I wanted to do and now I am doing both. It's amazing what happens when you give up something to get something. Sometimes you end up getting it all.
I was willing to give up going to Starbucks to start back working out and once I worked out, I saw that I had time to do both. You never know your limit until you push your thoughts beyond the unlimited world set in your mind. I had a thought and turned it into reality and it took me beyond what I thought I could do. I am at Starbucks right now feeling good and planning for my next projects. I refuse to let what I call the voice of "logic unreasonableness" take over me. This voice is the voice that gives you every reason as to why you can't get done what you need to get done. It gives you logic responses and it all makes sense. Like when it tells you that you don't have time. You really might not have time because you have a lot going on. You have school, kids, a husband, a wife, cleaning, washing and everything else I didn't name. And this makes sense. But what it makes you forget is the ability you have to rearrange and make do. This is what I took from the book of Proverbs when I read it. Gaining the ability to understand. When you try to understand and gain knowledge, you get better at getting closer to God and being the human being that he wants you to be. If he can give me the ability to understand, I can at least put this understanding into action.
What will you do now that you have a better understanding? Will you let the voice of "logic unreasonableness" get the best of you or will you take God's gift of understanding and make things happen in your life?.....
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