Saltwater skies

A few weeks ago, my beloved phone went missing. It happened in the space of about five minutes when I was dropping home to have a quick bite to eat, pick up my teenage son so he could do some job hunting, and then race back into town to continue working. As soon as I realised it had gone missing, I calmly wandered from room to room, praying for Holy Spirit revelation to reveal its exact location! .... Actually no, I did not do that at all.  I zigzagged like a crazy lady from room to outside to the car to another room - to rooms where I hadn't been ... totally gobsmacked that I could lose my phone in such a short space of time!  I searched every nook and cranny of the kitchen, looked in the bin, in the pantry, in the fridge, in the sink, in every drawer, yelled at my son to look too, then ran to look under my bed....  I knew I had no reason to put my phone in the medicine cabinet while I had been eating lunch at the table - but it got a thorough check too. I even...

I once again braved the park run this morning - under extreme conditions.  It was a beautiful day weather wise - slight wind gusts & chilly - but nothing to keep people indoors. The weather conditions were in me... I woke up headachy, feeling sluggish, sleepy (grouchy!) & DEFINITELY not in the mood for running 5k's!  However my 15 year old son also sees himself as my human alarm clock & was very keen to run so made sure I was awake & ready an hour early.  I knew running is good for me & 'boy will I be so glad I did it afterwards'.  My body will thank me?  Right then I felt it would thank me more for another hours sleep in my warm bed. (insert eyes shut emoji) An hour later, at 8am,  there we were at the start line with 140 other running enthusiasts, waiting to begin.   I had a lookout for my two running buddies (my son runs double my pace & had disappeared), the old man who always wears a blue shirt & has to date been ...

I started running the first week we arrived, and it was hard! Damn hard. You may relate, but I stopped moving - stopped trying.  My energy levels lacked ... energy! I knew what I should do but I didn't do it.  Things like: Drink more water! (if my husband was a doctor - this would be his only prescription) Eat more fruit. Go to bed early... Get up early and go for a run.  Ok - walk? Read your devotions. Get really organised..... And so on... How about - roll over & finish your dream before it fades away into oblivion.. Or roll over & go back to a deep sleep.... or just pull the covers over my head & embrace another minute of not thinking, not being responsible, not having to - do. I know - I'm just so guilty of retreating - & stopping. But at some point you need to get moving again - so, as they say, a change is as good as a holiday - so I changed my whole life - moved to another state (& to the beach which was really great!) &...