After taking a week off from exercise, I'm finding it very difficult to get back in the swing of things. I am steadfastly refusing to believe that it is age that is causing my problems. It doesn't help that I have recurring tendinitis in my right elbow. It's really irritating.
But then I hear on the radio about the blind archer. He is legally blind and yet has set the world record in archery- breaking his own record. Won the gold just the other day in the Olympics. There goes my excuse of a little elbow pain.
But why is it so hard when we lay off of something for a while, to get back into it. Whether it is exercise or good eating habits or spiritual discipline. Because I'm having a tough time with two of those. Gave up on the good eating habits a looooong time ago.
Spiritually speaking, I've spent the last two years feeling drained from stress about work and life and church and everything else. My times with God have been spent pleading- not exercising spiritual muscle. And my spiritual muscles have atrophied.
Now, I've got to re-learn a lot of that stuff- how to have good times in the Bible, how to pray just to talk to God, how to see spiritual lessons everywhere. Like the blind archer, I've got to figure out a new way to do what used to be so easy.
Guess it's time for some "faith like a child."
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