Still - United Yet Separate
My workout on the elliptical is far higher than when I started, but I have made it my time to focus. I still my mind. I am thankful I can work so hard. I become unified. I often reflect on those my age or younger, who can’t do what I am doing. A friend from my hometown died this year. He was five years younger than me, he and others of the young set dropped in and out of my house. I was living in my own house I was like an older brother. He had a heart transplant, but his battle with infection in the months that followed was lost. I have thought about him and others I know. It makes me grateful and I pump a little harder. I often try to not think of anything trying to listen to what God might want me to focus on. This exercise habit is also a spiritual journey. I often wonder what I should invest my time in, but while on the elliptical I believe that that is my best-spent time.
Reconstructed temple in Nauvoo
The weight loss is a satisfying result. I am most thankful when my wife suggests I should not use half and half in my coffee, not spend so much time watching TV with the laptop on lap, or makes some other life improvement suggestion. I can say what I am doing now is working, so I am not changing it. Even though, I have gotten many laughs from joking I live with my own Jillian Michaels; I get great support and encouragement from my partner Nancy. I am her support; she is fitter than she has ever been. I tell her she is becoming a gym babe, even has some biceps. ...
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