Feeling strangely devoid of energy and enthusiasm, I took off for a quick "5 minute bike ride" to see if my daughter's bike was working as it should. I adjusted the seat to my height since we are roughly the same size. Well, without even noticing, I was soon riding along the nearby Greenway, and my 5-minute bike ride became an hour. This is often the way it goes when
one just gets started. It was a gorgeous day and all the fatigue I'd been feeling all day vanished. I don't know where all the weariness came from, but it felt like nothing could shake it. Then,
poof: sunshine, exercise, and a beautiful path in the woods snapped me out of it.
I've been writing a lot lately. Working on my sequel to
Joe- The Horse Nobody Loved (which is on a 99 cent special for two days) and also promoting an older book,
God Drives a Tow Truck (also only 99 cents for one more day.) My joints all ached, telling me I had been hunched over my computer typing for too many hours.
So off to the bike path while the hot sun dripped through the tree tops. The joint aches disappeared, the weariness dissipated, and joy lassoed me. I had just read on Facebook of a friend whose friend committed suicide, leaving behind 7 children. There have been times in my life when I have felt hopeless. They
always pass. I pray every person encountering weariness, fatigue, despair who reads this post goes out for a walk in the sunshine, praises God for the joy of breathing, and finds the abundant life God wants all of us to enjoy. I grieve for those seven children. Hopelessness passes. Death is final. Choose life.
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Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink
and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun
the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and
drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand
of God,
WOW...I was down, this am really discouraged at the state of our country...read two blogs that tell me America is done for...I KNOW God canting course IF we repent and return to Him, but I do not see this happening...two very clear signs that Pandora's Box cannot be closed...and then I read your blog...I will rejoice in the Lord. It's rainy and the sun isn't shining, but I will rejoice in the Lord. hanks Vicky.
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