Day 23a-24a

I have been running a little more the past couple of days to train for the Governor's Cup Road Race, not sure yet whether I am going to run the half marathon or the 5miler.  I was thinking as I running yesterday that this is enjoyable when I am not doing it to try to fix the number on the scale.  There was no pressure.  I could run for the fun of it and not to accomplish my weight goal.  It is so nice when your body feels healthy, when it is being pushed in a healthy way.  You really do get a runner's high after you have gone farther than you thought you could.   That is my goal.  To be healthy, to push my self in healthy ways with healthy goals.  To be healthy for the purpose of going out and sharing God's love however He may want me to that day.  Different focus on healthy, but I believe a better focus.  Wow!  It is crazy how I can just go run an hour, no problem, but you tell me to eat right for a day--IMPOSSIBLE!  I am glad it is so hard though, because I have to rely on God.  I really can't do this without Him.  I have tried for twenty plus years.  I think the longest I went eating healthy was one month.  I am weak, but He is strong.  The biggest thing for me to remember though is that there is always hope when we have Jesus.  That is what I always tell the patients I am working with that are suicidal or depressed.  Don't give up hope.  It can get better.  Hope is so vital to living.  "Christ in you, the hope of glory"(Colossians 1:27). Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed-(1 Peter1:13).
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