letting it be about the heart


Micah & G'ma!!!
okay time change - spring forward - good for early rising baby to sleep late!!!! gretchen and i headed out to the park this morning for a quick run around 8AM - 4 miles, 50 degrees, sunny & glorious. it is such a delight to my soul to have spring finally arriving. the splendor of the morning is starting to set in for gretchen. by the time we got around to the parade grounds, we had warmed up and were cruising along. we had a great talk about working through issues that lie on the outside only to feel like you are successfully self managing those issues when the danger can be about not getting to the heart issues that are below. when i don't get to the heart issues, i am not able to get to the point where it becomes about jesus getting in there and doing the work to change me. like issues of food and weight. i can think that i am managing my food & weight, which are good things, but when i think that is just about the food and not the comfort that i get from food than i am not really getting to the heart issue. instead of wanting to seek jesus, i eat ice cream. not that ice cream is bad in and of itself......it is when it becomes substitutive for real intimacy with god that it becomes bad. i'm still growing and learning and falling down and getting back up. i have a great mother-in-law that has real and rich conversations with me.

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