He Delights In Me

My devotion today was about how God delights in me. The words brought tears to my eyes. Here is this big creator of the universe and I delight him?

If you are like me, you've experienced times where you have displeased people. Perhaps your parents, an estranged friend, or an ex-spouse. These instances can play with your head and make you feel unworthy to anyone.

What assurance to know there is one whose love will never falter, no matter what. I can't do anything to make God love me less or more. He delights in me.

The Office Move

My office is moving. I don't mind that I have to share an office now, or that it will be much smaller once three desks are set up. What I mind is my window. My window to the world of weather and activity.

Most of all I will miss the bush right outside. It has a nest that houses a bird each year and sometimes baby birds are born. I've saved this nest a few times as landscapers come with their hedge trimmers. Already a bird is there. It won't even know I'm gone, but I will.

Irony

I've exercised all my life. I remember Jack La Lane, Jane Fonda, leggings and just sold my Thigh Master at my last yard sale. But, I have never joined a gym until this year. I couldn't pass up the price with no contract, to see if I liked it. I love it!

What is better about a gym than working out at home is, you walk in the door and all you can do is exercise. Getting there is half the effort, but once there, I make the circuit. I go from treadmill to the 30 minute room to stretching to stairs to elliptical. At home, I'll be in the middle of a yoga DVD and remember the laundry in the washer, or dinner I need to remember to take out of the freezer. I can stop and do something anytime and often will make things up just so I can stop.

The one thing I find disturbingly ironic is that there is a donut shop in the same parking lot as my gym. How can this be? I 'la, la, la' my way past it as if that can block out the smell, but just the name donut can trigger a primal groan. So far I have not stopped to purchase one, which is good, because once that barrier is broke, it's all downhill from there.