COURTING WISDOM ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE (11)
Scripture: Proverbs 3:1
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Courting Wisdom All the Days of Your Life (11)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 3:1-4:27
Introduction
I imagine many people would sympathize with the sentiment that there is nothing like a having a life-threatening situation to get you to really focus on taking care of yourself. I mean I was active and ate well before my strokes in April, but that activity was confined to playing with the kids; I didn't ''exercise'' beforehand. It's no secret that Teresa is the athlete in our family, little miss marathon runner who does it all. I'm the nerd, the bookworm, the one who babysits the kids while my supermodel wife runs the races.
But after the strokes I realized that I needed to exercise; and exercising, it turns out, has really helped my recovery. Around late June I started riding a bike a couple times during the week and when I started the goal was really just to get a couple miles completed and to not fall off of the bike. As you know we don't live in the flattest place on planet earth, and so when I first started riding I just wanted to be able to keep going up the hills around here without having to stop; I wasn't really concerned about my speed. Now the good news though about an uphill is that it generally means there is a downhill to follow. In other words, if you can persevere and make it all the way up the hill, you're rewarded on the other side with a nice downhill where you can just coast. And so early on in my riding that's how I viewed downhills, as an opportunity to stop pedaling, to rest, and to let gravity do all the work.
I don't think that mindset is unique to cycling; I think we tend to feel that way about most things in life. I remember how worthless and unproductive I would be in college after finals. You'd spent all that time preparing that you just wanted to do nothing when it was all over. Sometimes we get that way with our jobs, like we'll set a goal for ourselves an ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 3:1-4:27
Introduction
I imagine many people would sympathize with the sentiment that there is nothing like a having a life-threatening situation to get you to really focus on taking care of yourself. I mean I was active and ate well before my strokes in April, but that activity was confined to playing with the kids; I didn't ''exercise'' beforehand. It's no secret that Teresa is the athlete in our family, little miss marathon runner who does it all. I'm the nerd, the bookworm, the one who babysits the kids while my supermodel wife runs the races.
But after the strokes I realized that I needed to exercise; and exercising, it turns out, has really helped my recovery. Around late June I started riding a bike a couple times during the week and when I started the goal was really just to get a couple miles completed and to not fall off of the bike. As you know we don't live in the flattest place on planet earth, and so when I first started riding I just wanted to be able to keep going up the hills around here without having to stop; I wasn't really concerned about my speed. Now the good news though about an uphill is that it generally means there is a downhill to follow. In other words, if you can persevere and make it all the way up the hill, you're rewarded on the other side with a nice downhill where you can just coast. And so early on in my riding that's how I viewed downhills, as an opportunity to stop pedaling, to rest, and to let gravity do all the work.
I don't think that mindset is unique to cycling; I think we tend to feel that way about most things in life. I remember how worthless and unproductive I would be in college after finals. You'd spent all that time preparing that you just wanted to do nothing when it was all over. Sometimes we get that way with our jobs, like we'll set a goal for ourselves an ...
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