I have chosen 26 words to consider as I walk 26 laps during my workout.
The thirteenth word is Motivated. Halfway through my list of words is a good time to focus on staying motivated. Throughout my life, one of my challenges has been finishing what I started. I need to look at why I do what I do. If it was worth starting, it’s worth finishing.
I need to be more motivated.
On impluse and even with the price of gas, here in our area at $3.68 per gallon, we decided to take a ride today. Wound up in Waxhaw, NC, just across the border and about five miles from home. They were having a Spring Festival with lots of booths with cool stuff. As a local teenage rock band played, we walked, looked, and bought. We found a decorative platter for the kitchen and bought a nice homemade basket from Jennifer from Greensboro. Jennifer will be going to UNC in Chapel Hill this fall and is making baskets to supplement her educational fund.
Walking made us hungry, so we stopped at Rippington’s restaurant, located in what seemed to have been old general store sometime in the distant past. Anne had the chicken club sandwich and I had a mushroom, bacon, and Swiss cheese hamburger without the mushrooms. The food was excellent and our server had a great sense of humor. I always enjoy young people with a sense of humor.
Waxhaw has several antique shops that I need to explore sometime in the future. However, that’s for another day.
Waxhaw, NC – it’s part of where we live.
I have chosen 26 words to consider as I walk 26 laps during my workout.
The next word is Loving. If I really love someone – my wife, my family, my friends or my God, then I need to demonstrate that love with words and with action. I need to practice “agape” love. That love that is both “unconditional and voluntary,” it is like the love that God holds for us.
I need to be more loving.
I have chosen 26 words to consider as I walk 26 laps during my workout.
Today’s word is kind. Kindness is mostly about the tongue and what it does to people and its owner. I read a quote from Mother Theresa – she said, “kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” The writer of Proverbs 12:25 writes, “An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.” I need to speak kind words to those I interact with, thinking before I speak, keeping my tongue in check. Even more so, I need to think kind thoughts because the tongue only goes where the mind has already traveled.
I need to be kinder.
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This one is already listed on the sidebar, but is worthy to be mentioned here as well.
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
A seemingly never ending source of pop history.
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I have chosen 26 words to consider as I walk 26 laps during my workout.
Today’s word is Joyful. True joy is a gift from God as one of the attributes of the Fruit of the Spirit. With joy, I can celebrate and express my gladness for being able to live each day the Lord allows me to. The old folks say, “this joy that I have the world didn’t give to me, and the world can’t take it away.
I need to be more joyful.
I have chosen 26 words to consider as I walk 26 laps during my workout.
The ninth word is Intelligent. When situations arise in my life, I need to deal with them in a more intelligent way. I need to use good judgment and make better decisions, thinking things through and relying on what I know rather than what I think.
I need to act more intelligently.
