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Hello! I made it BACK from my 10-day lovely stay in my HOME area of WeMi (West Michigan)! Vero! It IS just as I expected it to be — truly the place I feel I NEED to be, in order to be my best, DO my best, and otherwise live at my most fulfilled. I simply cannot sink my roots on this side of the state, despite having been BORN here! One main reason is the soul-encouraging DELIGHT I derive from all the VARIETY in West Michigan.
In the same DAY in my FAVE part of Michigan (centering on Rockford and/or Fruit Ridge –> look it up), I can explore (on foot AND/OR in the car, and later on bike, God willing)…
Continue loving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. Always remember to help people by welcoming them into your home. Some people have done that and have helped angels without knowing it. Don’t forget those who are in prison. Remember them as though you were in prison with them. And don’t forget those who are suffering. Remember them as though you were suffering with them. Marriage should be honored by everyone. And every marriage should be kept pure between husband and wife. God will judge guilty those who commit sexual sins and adultery. Keep your lives free from the love of money. And be satisfied with what you have. God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never run away from you.” So we can feel sure and say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. People can do nothing to me.”
Ya know, so MANY people posting online today are focused on their own CONTENT… but it seems more of a challenge to me, to focus on being CONTENT — as in, having contentment, being truly CONTENT with what I HAVE, what I am doing, what I am making. Even. Maybe. Who I AM. Now. Not after I create all the STUFF inside my head, or have every moment FREE to explore God’s creation without limitations…
I don’t know about you, but I have a REALLY hard time with that boundary between being CONTENT and striving to either NOT LOSE what I HAVE… or not make anything WORSE… or FIGHT to make things BETTER… as if I by myself could actually guarantee any such outcome, simply by pinning my attention upon it. Right?! In other words:
Yeah. That’s pretty much it. I had other things in mind that I question, but once I came up with that ONE above, I realized that the only thing I have almost NO idea of the most beneficial thing to do, out of what is before me at any given moment, is body positioning. Usually this occurs only at night, trying to sleep and not wanting to wake up with pain or numbness… but now, this is a constant concern. Especially since after the first 5 walks or so in the first few days of my trip, my “good” knee started acting up, so that by my 6th walk out of 10 on the trip, I was seriously slowed or otherwise distracted by it. Eventually, through a night at a hotel when I did MUCH research, I determined I had badly strained the popliteal muscle (diagonal across the back of the knee), along with just plain overexertion of the other muscles and ligaments in my legs. I simply did too much, too fast, at too high of an intensity, without training for it. In fact, I didn’t even go for ANY walks in the last 13 days before my trip, and I had stopped doing my morning exercises with my dumbbells and elastic bands!! I look back and just say, “DOH!!” How could I have done that to myself? Do I think I am still 20 years old?! I’m 52!! NOW my readjustment to the REST of my life changes seems easier by comparison. Truth be told, I am finding it much easier to trust God for my busy-ness and my business, and the TIMING of it all, and whether I push myself or just relax… because everything besides my knee falls into a category of “anything I get done is a BONUS”… Especially today, on Mother’s Day! :wink:
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— Fran Lafferty :O>
