“The appetite of the lazy craves, and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.”

I read this today in a devotional and was reminded, once again, of my word for the year…challenge!  It is a challenge to constantly try to do better!  The devotional I read was in regard to procrastination.  The writer said, in a round about way, that procrastination is a way to be lazy, to avoid those things that challenge us.

So that song, Water Come a Me Eye, the one I finally passed at my last guitar lesson.  I have been on that page in my book since January, but I didn’t like the song and I thought the timing was too difficult and so I practiced everything else I could practice except that song for months.  My teacher, God Bless him, was not going to let me get away with that, so he kept me on that song for months. Guess what?

When I finally sat down and listened to the practice CD and kept picking the song over and over a flip switched and I thought…”This was so easy.  Why didn’t I learn this months ago?”  I was procrastinating.

I have a time goal for my half marathon this November and so I joined a Run Club with the thought that running with other people will help me run faster but as I look at the schedule I find myself trying to find excuses not to run with the group.  Mostly I’m afraid we will be way too slow for everybody else.  Excuses.  Procrastination. I think this verse is telling me to stay the course to be diligent, do not procrastinate!

With that said…I have a rose bush outside to dead head…it’s staring at me from my kitchen window…I also have a sink full of dirty dishes and loads of laundry….

It’s early yet but so far for today I’m thankful that my husband gets to stay home with us today, for a good arm workout this morning, for Greek vanilla yogurt (so yummy), for a reply to a message I sent to a young lady who loves running and God (had some good thoughts and things for me to think about in it…she has a blog called Fit and Faithful, you should check it out) and for my word…Challenge…reminding me to do the thing that is hard instead of easy…Hebrews 12:11, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” (NIV)…hopefully this will lead me to my time goal in November and better guitar playing…for all these things…I Give Thanks!

Keep On Running….