Being Thankful

I've been lazy lately. Maybe not as lazy as I could be, but too lazy for ME! I know I was sick for two weeks, and I've been preparing for this craft fair, but I feel like other chores have been neglected. The biggest thing I have been neglecting is myself. I don't mean that I haven't bought myself something pretty recently(I haven't but that's not me or the point). I mean that I haven't been taking care of this body that God has given me.

After watching my moms body deteriorate for months a few things went through my mind. She rarely indulged in foods that she loved because they weren't healthy, so all that healthy food turned into a joke at the end because it was keeping her alive when she shouldn't have been. We can look at this in two ways...
1-Eat all the junk you want because you only live once.
2-Eat as healthy as you can so you can live a long life and honor the body that God gave you.
My mom's situation was turned into a joke because she did eat healthy to help with her chronically high cholesterol, but her cholesterol was always high no matter what, and the cancer ended up taking her life anyway.

So after all of that happened I started running. This turned into the best therapy for me. I would drive down to the beach at the end of a long day, run as much as I could, get in the car, blast some Jason M'raz(spelling please?) and cry my eyes out on the way home. I didn't have an ipod at the time so I borrowed my hubby's. His headphone wouldn't stay in my little ears though so I ran in silence, which scared me! But I began to use my running time as my prayer time. I thanked God that I had a healthy body, that I had the ability to run, and when the running got tough I asked God to carry me to my finish line, and I believe that He did.

I have only been running once since the fall, I've been eating junk, and not getting enough sleep. I feel like I am being careless with this gift from God. I don't know how long I will have it for, but I pray it will be a long time. I think it's time to start being thankful for my functioning body and to use it in ways that would honor God.