New Running Trail

While the kids are away, the mommy will . . . 

No, not play. Playing is for sissies. Real moms RUN!  But running is kind of like playing . . . running is fun, right? (It's a lot more fun when your not just jiggling around with a bowl full of jelly -- I'll let you know when it is fun for me.) But . . . who cares? Who cares that I am super-duper-oober-goober slow. Who cares that I move like molasses? (Ever tried to pour molasses? . . . slow.) Sure an old lady with grey hair waved as she lapped me. Sure my thighs (and gut) shake as I take each step. Sure I can probably walk faster than I run. But I don't care. I am going to keep moving. And one day . . . one day I will be free. Moving freely, and gracefully . . . no matter how long it takes me. I have no time frame -- just life to live. 

 There is a beautiful new trail to run on, which makes it SO NICE! Today I was out and about the whole time William was in Kindergarten (over 2 hours). Do I have something better to do? Maybe. But the one thing that bothers me more than anything is my body, so why not devote as much time to it -- as I do to something so much less important? Why spend my time working on things of far less value? My body deserves the time, after all. It has been good to me all these years -- even when I have not been so good to it. Sorry, body, I have been a bad friend. I will do better. You deserve better. 

It was such a beautiful run. And when I was tired . . . I walked. I drank tons of ice-water. I stopped and looked around me, and smelled the river, and breathed in and out. (And snapped a picture.) And took in the day. And then I would keep moving. 

 Sometimes I would listen to music, sometimes I would turn it off and listen to the birds, and the river. 

It felt SO GOOD. 

I only had Henry in the single stroller so I was in Heaven! 

(It was great AFTER I changed his blow-out diaper at the school before we got started.) 

 Go out and breath some fresh air . . .  and see what beauty God has painted today. You don't want to miss it!
And your beautiful body deserves it!