Memory Verse Mondays - Our Ladies' LIFE Group Study - "Loving God With All Your Mind" is really helping me to not dwell on the "What ifs" or "If onlys". To focus on the TRUTH as it aligns with God's Word. I'm "thinking on these things" and "the peace of God that passes all understanding" is guarding my heart and mind. Life is good as I love God with all my mind! That is a miracle!
Training Tuesdays - Training is going well. I've logged in 70 miles on my treadmill in 2012. Add to that, outdoor miles during this balmy Michigan Winter, and I'm nearing 100 Miles!! WOW - I can barely believe it. This morning I completed a 5 K run in under 39 minutes! WOOHOO! I registered for the Lake Ann Trail 5K and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure scheduled on back to back weekends in May. I would like to run the half marathon in Ann Arbor in June, but I'm waiting on that one...
Weight Watch Wednesdays - Down 10 pounds since Christmas. YAY! It still seems like a long haul. Even with all the "sweet holidays" (my 50th birthday, Valentine's Day, and Cristin's birthday all in the same week) I was able to enjoy the special days while choosing wisely and losing - ever so slowly.
Thankful Thursdays - So much to be thankful for, where to start? ...
1) I was shown appreciation for my work by my boss this week, both verbally and tangibly. I was shocked! What a huge encouragement, that was especially since I feel so inadequate in my job.
2) I'm thankful for my job, and the people who encourage me in my workplace.
3) I'm thankful for weekends with my gal, sharing her life again as she seeks God's will for her future. How do I describe the joy I have now, after 4 years of strained long distance mothering?
4) I'm thankful for my husband seeing and meeting my needs. He offered to play "Scrabble" with me. It was a close game that I eventually I lost, but a blessing to do something different together in the evening.
Fun Fridays - Bowling with the our co-workers last Friday was a blast. I bowled horribly, but that was overshadowed by the opportunity to get to know my co-workers outside of the work environment. This was a "Team Building" event supported by our supervisors. How many people get to bowl and be crazy with their bosses while still on company time? Can anyone say, "Workplace of Choice"?
Songspiration Saturdays and Sundays - There are so many songs that play as I run/walk/drive. They minister to my heart and soul. I had to laugh as I realized how many of the songs have lyrics that include: race, walk, run, breathe...Hahahahaha! They help me to continue on...racing, running, walking, breathing when my body just screams "QUIT!" (Not only in my physical training, but also in my spiritual and emotional training.) "...But one thing I do: ... straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14 ESV)
"And he has given usHe's always at work and I believe He is perfect in every way. Every day of my life is written in His book before even one of them come to be. He is not surprised by the events of my life. He is at work in every circumstance and every trial, in the good times and the sad times.He has works prepared in advance that I should walk in them. I trust that He is working everything together for my good and His glory.
A treasure called right now
And this is the only moment
we can do anything about..." Miracle of the Moment by Steven Curtis Chapman
Lord, help me see your miracles in this moment.
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