Fartlicks...Funny Name Serious Business

    I love running, I love to get out and go and I can go for miles (8miles). I am like a tortois though, slow and steady.  I am in pretty good shape, carido wise (so I thought).  I wanted to shave time off my run and my sweet Husband said, there is no way you run that slow.  Well, Saturday, we jogged together, I learned I have room for a lot of improvement.  Today we did Fartlicks together, a fartlick, short sprints to raise your heart rate, then a walk a bit and then a sprint again.  The whole while trying to break 4 years of bad habbits, like taking short steps instead of long steps. Okay, let me just tell you, if you think you are in awesome shape and you rock just do a couple of miles of fartlicking.  Whew, I was beat, in fact it felt like I was in boot camp again.  Whining the whole time to myself, about how I felt like I was going to die.  So how is this making it on the blog you ask?  I like to apply anything I do, to what is God teaching me in this moment through this exprience right now?
    What I think He is teaching me today is this.  Erica, you are great at going the distance with me, but when I put the pressure on, when I want you to get a little tougher and stronger, you whine.  You whine and you are not trusting me.  Oh, so you mean to tell me God, that I am a whiner.  Yes, I am.  When I get a little uncomfortable, I complain and stop focusing on God and start focusing on me.  Do you do that?  You don't have to say yes, but what should we do in those situations?  It is like refocusing my stride, to retrian my mind to go back and focus on God.  Whether it is by scripture, song or prayer, a refocus moment needs to happen.
  Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like the stars in the universe. Philippians 2:14-15
   That is my start to do it without complainingnor arguing with God, so I can shine.  Do you want to shine with me?
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet yo have taken hold of it.  But one thing I do:  Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 3:13-14
   Do I forget what is behind me and press forward?  Not all the time but, how much greater would we be if we did?
  Just a thought in the light of day.