The somethings I learned today...

...never stop to tie your shoe 9/10ths of a way through a long run unless you want to show the passersby what a 90 year old convalescent home resident looks like trying to gain speed. Ha!

I wasn't sure I could actually make my leg move forward after bending down to tie that undone lace. The good news is I didn't fall on my head or blow out a knee cap.

The lessons kept comin' too...

God heals babies but also allows his children to suffer great difficulty. He hasn't revealed the cure for PMS but sometimes makes husbands really understanding. We may taste the sweetness of true friendship but with that the bitterness of goodbye or "see ya in a while", as the case may be. And when we are hurting, sometimes He brings people alongside us but other times He forces us to see that he alone is always enough.

The Bear Crawl

Today I actually got on all fours (hands and feet) in front of 30+ college students and did the "bear crawl" across the gym floor. Being old enough to be the mom of 80% of those students I just had to be the model student and line up first (the LAST time thats going to happen).  Thats when they told us what we had to do.  Yep, I had to bend over with my butt in.the.air right in the faces of those doe-y eyed young men and women and CRAWL across the gym.  Deeeeep breath.  If it was only my butt, thats one thing. But I was sweating like a HORSE!!!  Sweating aaallll over.  And I did it.  I bent over and crawled.  Tonight there are young men somewhere stabbing their eyes out with hangers or sticks or something.  

My consolation is that the class will eventually be over and maybe I will get my anatomy class to end all this humiliation. 

*sigh* 

:)

The Sin Bog

Could it be that since I had such a spiritually "high" weekend Satan felt OBLIGATED to toss me headlong into my sin bog???  Well, its what he did this morning.  I opened my eyes and SMACK, a belly flop right into the muck.  Seriously, every ugly thing possible popped into my brain and hung there like so much sludge.  Not exactly the best way to start my morning.  So I prayed and then I asked my husband to pray.  His windex on my otherwise murky outlook was Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  He reminded me to meditate on that and pretty much tell satan to stick that in his juice box and SUCK IT!  I also cant help but think of Psalm 40.  He will lift me out of the pit and set my feet upon the rock.  Thats really good and welcome news today.

Thank you Father for your free gift, that I have done NOTHING to deserve.  Today, I am really clinging...I mean really.

Oh and did I mention that today is bootcamp??? Lol.

Boot Camp, Alice in Wonderland and Emotions

On boot camp days I want to do anything...ANYTHING...other than boot camp.  Not because its hard, quite the contrary-it is a junior college after all-but because its akin to being demoted back to high school.  

Ironically, tonight I will pretend that I have the stamina of a high schooler and go to the midnight showing of Alice in Wonderland.  Its a birthday gift from my Sammy Boy.  Somehow its sort of not a gift because tomorrow I will still be 36 and my butt will be absolutely dragging.  

And on another completely emotional note...everything I see/read/hear today makes me feel all vaclempt.  Further confirming that I am an old, hormonal, wannabe teenager.