life

how is it that you can have so much on your mind for weeks yet have nothing to blog about?  i don't understand it.  i've been training like crazy lately.  5-6 days a week.  sometimes doing 2-3 workouts per day.  it's a bit ridiculous. the funny thing is that i'm not hating it like i thought i would.  i'm working toward something, it's really starting to hit home with the triathlon less than 6 weeks away.  now is the time where i'm starting to wish i'd worked out this hard from the beginning (but i think that's a normal thought, not ever feeling like you've trained enough).  i'm really nervous for the triathlon, but also excited.  today i am signing up for an indoor triathlon that's a week from this sunday.  i'm nervous about it, but i think that it will help calm a few of my 'unknown' fears for the actual, big, race day. it's formatted a little differently because it's all indoors, but it will still get me accustomed to the transitions and what clothing works and what doesn't.  also giving me an idea of how wobbly my legs are going to be, going from one sport to the other! in other, yet still related, news... i biked to work this morning. i was so nervous about it but i prayed before i left and God really showed me how all my fears were unnecessary.  i live within 3 miles of work so it's not that far.  i took back roads for the first half and then the road for the second half and it ended up taking me just a few minutes longer than when i drive to work, not bad!  i'd like to say that i'd do it every morning now but it kind of is a pain to pack my outfit and lunch in my backpack and change when i get to work.  plus trying to figure out what to do with my helmet hair every day.  plus it means me not going to the gym before work.  so maybe just a couple days a week.  at least i'm past that fear (that never should have been a fear in the first place).

1 timothy 4:7-8
     exercise thyself unto godliness. for bodily exercise profiteth little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that is now, and of that which is to come.

that's a verse i have written on my desk.  it's a good reminder to me of how much importance i put on both exercise of the body as well as spiritual exercise. i like the comparison between the two. i got an e-mail this week from the 'head' teacher for the two year old class at church that i help with.  she made a point in there that really had an impact on me this week.  she wrote prayer requests and one of them was to pray for these two little boys who have been having a difficult time leaving their parents and coming into class. she requested that we pray that they will feel comfortable coming in and playing with the other kids. how often do i not bring things before God because i think they are too small a request? i had been annoyed at the parents for not just dropping their child off and 'showing them who's boss' when i could have been praying. just another reminder of how little i give my cares and burdens to the Lord.

dennis' mom is home from the hospital after her surgery. thank you to all those who earnestly prayed for her. she is home and finishing up her recovery, enjoying that much better than being in the hospital!

i'm really trying not to stress out over my summer plans.  how is it that i have sooo many options and so little time?  weddings, visiting MI, going to the outer banks with d's fam, hawaii, amsterdam, jen in the keys, everywhere else in the world... when does my list end? i have so many things i'd love to be doing rather than working.  obviously some of those trips won't happen, but i sure would love to take every single one of them!

alright, i better get back to work now, just wanted to write a little bit this morning while i've waited at my desk for a few phone calls. definitely ready for a 78 degree day in lynchburg tomorrow!