I took a walk on Monday.
The trail I walked is a little over a mile long. If I had been walking for exercise I would have completed the loop in about 20-30 minutes. Instead it took an hour.
I was walking around a lake in a wooded area (Winton Woods for those of you around here) and it was absolutely gorgeous. It was an unusally warm day - I didn't even take a jacket, and the colors on the trees were phenomenal.
At first I had planned on it being an exercise walk. But after about half a second it turned into a prayer walk. I just couldn't stop thanking God for how beautiful it was. Or how warm it was. Eventually I just decided to stop whenever I felt like I should to thank God for something else. So I went through things like thanking Him for my family, my friends, the outdoors, education, etc. But then I started getting really creative with some of the stops and started thanking Him for things like reflections, echos and bubbles.
It was just really nice and really refreshing. And I was very excited to be able to do a whole prayer walk centered all around thanks and not once start asking or complaining or whining to God about anything. It was purely Adorations that were sent up.
I think I might finally be getting back into being myself. And that's a really great feeling.
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Katie, this is AWESOME. Thank you, Lord, for all things -- even if we sometimes can't see beyond them.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely post! Thank you for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteChristian Dude - Thanks for your comments. If you loke relationship-focused posts you should come back often. Even when I don't intend to, that's usually where I tend to wander.
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