Week 2 of my new exercise plan and I'm already off schedule. Oh bother. I totally meant to do some yoga yesterday, but it just wasn't in the cards (church, football, sleeping, vacuuming...these things were in the cards). Oh well, I'll just chalk it up to New Year's Resolution Failure and try to just maintain from here. I usually leave work at 11:00 to go to the gym, then I do my workout, come home and shower, eat something and go back to work in time to clock back in at 1:00. It works out really well because I don't feel rushed and I can take a real shower instead of a five minute hurry up shower. Well, what I meant to say was that it works well in theory, but today it didn't work as well in practice. I lost track of time at work and ended up not leaving until 11:30. Then I spent 15 minutes in the parking lot trying to get the ice out of my wheel wells. Once I got home it was 11:50 and I was so tired that I decided cramming in a workout wasn't worth it and took a 30 minute nap (which turned into a 50 minute nap and was awesome). This plan actually worked out really well because it was pizza Monday at Planet Fitness. So, I went to the gym with Paul after work, ate a piece of pizza, did 15 minutes on the elliptical, ate another piece of pizza, did another 15 minutes on the elliptical and came home. I fully intended to get some treadmill running in today, but the gym was pretty crowded so there weren't any treadmills available. C'est la vie. I had a pretty good workout, since I was feeling so fresh from my awesome lunch nap, so I'm happy with it. I listed to a past favorite praise song at the beginning of my workout and it got me thinking. This song talks about how God's love endures forever. It encouraged me to think that, despite the fact that my endurance level is pretty low, God's Love endurance level is such that he never stops loving. His love endures forever and it isn't dependent on my performance or on anything else. It is what it is and it'll never end. How comforting to know that there is nothing that I or anybody else can do to separate me from God's Love (see Romans chapter 8). I know this to be true, but C.S. Lewis states that we need to be reminded more often than we need to be instructed. I'll consider today to be a reminder.
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