One Thing Done

 My wife and I joined the gym this past week and I used the treadmill yesterday for the first time.  When I finished my T-shirt was soaked with sweat.  I set it for a cardio workout and walked for a mile in twenty minutes.  I probably won't do much more than this although I coukd get into light weight lifting.  But I've learned that any exercise is good.  College football was on yesterday but I only watched one full game last evening.

I will watch no pro ball today.  Instead I will focus on my Spirituality today.  As I said in an earlier post yesterday, I need to limit my football viewing.  Football could very easily take over my life and I watched no analysis this past week.  I simply decided my Spirituality comes first.  And it is way to easy for me to get distracted and I could make football my life.  I could very easily fall prey to the gym taking over my life, but feel a few times a week at the gym is plenty for me.  

I could do more with a gym membership, but really, all I care about is my heart.  I've had no chest pain since my heart attack, but at this point in my life, any chest pain at all could be the end of me.  So, it's important not to have chest pain, but I was thinking that maybe I sit too much.  I have no goals set for like weight loss or muscle building.  I really don't need to lose wight and I simply am not into building muscles.  

But how does the gym translate into my Spirituality?  Very simple:  I'm caring for my body without body worship.  I just care about exercising my heart.  And that is all there is to it.  I'm not going to run a marathon and I have no desire to be a hunk.  I'm just not into body worship.  I simply want to care for my heart.  

Some might say that care for my heart might start with giving up my pipes.  My pipes might do good for my heart than harm.  In fact, I will go so far to say that my pipes do me no harm whatsoever.  If I can go to the gym two or three times a week, I'll be doing well.  And so this is my thinking this morning as I smoke my Angel pipe today with some Old Professor tobacco.  My Coffee this morning is. Manatee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave


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