The Goal is to Grow in Character.

To see one of my blog posts be around the fact that I took one stupid walk makes my soul start to dry heave.

This is my best attempt at a 'Boo' thumbs down picture. I should have taken a pic squeezed into the ol' workout gear but who knows what kind of 'FAIL' website that would have shown up on.

I went for a walk. Maybe 2 miles?

It's true... that's all I can do right now. If you have ever been in an accident, you feel my frustration, but for now a walk is significant.

I have exercises that I do from the therapist. They are to build my neck and shoulder muscles back up but what makes me frustrated is that I was doing pull ups before. Like without help.... (a point I like to bring up often) and so I have a hard time believing that using soup cans to do supine flies is really going to do it for me. The reality is, just that walk has made me so sore.

So... Lets take the blog to a weekly update until I really have something to say. It's day by day, what I can do. Some days, just starting recently, I feel great. Others, I can tell that I forgot to take it easy the day before. 'Slowing down' and 'taking it easy' aren't things I really did before. Balance is good.
And as I was reminded today, with a quote from Rick Warren:
"Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one ...now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.....The goal is to grow in Character.... God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.”

And so the point is I realized I have an EXTREMELY blessed life. My 'worst day' many would chose to over their 'best day' and so being dramatic that I can't work out probably seems silly. And big picture it is. But it's part of who I am and part of how I show respect for my body and allow my mind to grow by pushing myself. So for now it's my little hurdle and I'm trying to grow in character.

-CFC