The Bungee Harness

Greetings Dear Reader,

The Bungee Harness workout is one wherein one straps oneself to a bungee cord attached to an immovable object and wears a harness attached to the other end.  It creates increasing tension as one attempts to run away from the area of attachment.  Greater energy is spent attempting to make forward progress.

Things that create resistance in exercise are valuable because they increase effort and multiply the effectiveness of the exercise.  Used properly, resistance is good in this way.  Running away from the tether yields different and better results than simply running.  This benefit, does not, however, apply to everything.

We are, whether we accept it or not, tethered to God.  When we run from him, we engage a resistance that is truly futile.  One cannot escape from someone who is everywhere and every when.  We focus on destinations that we think will hide us from God and instead we find that those destinations include him in some way. 

Even though we gain no distance from God, we do collect the weariness of energy spent trying to escape his love and persistent calling to us.  It is more like building tension that will eventually snap us back to where we began to run demanding that we face the truths we cannot escape.  We grow tried and weak in trying to escape the inescapable unrelenting force.

As I have been flung back to places where I began to run, I have seen the depth to which this is true.  The pull of grace and love is irresistible.  The tension of it is tethered to our hearts and creates great pain until we allow it to heal us.  The vibration of the tension plays a siren song that demands that we stop running and allow that love to envelope us.  It is that tension that shows us just how futile it is to resist the Father.

The beauty of it is that when we stop resisting it, we find that it is what we needed all along.  It is able to create a wholeness in our hearts that makes us strong and vital again.  The simplicity is that it is a simple act of the will to stop resisting.  It is a basic choice to turn and face the anchor to which we are irrevocably tethered, Jesus.  The only real freedom is found in accepting that tether and following its lead Dear Reader. 

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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Second Thoughts – Pokémon Go

Greetings Dear Reader,

Sometimes I will end the day with thoughts that are important to get out.  Usually I just write them and put them in my journal folder.  I have chosen that on occasion I will share them with you Dear Reader.

If you live under a rock or somewhere where there is no internet you may not have heard of Pokémon Go.  My Grandsons seem to enjoy playing it with their dad.  I realized as they explained it that it was a game that could motivate me to exercise more.

I tried it this weekend.  You see I like walk but not simply for exercise.  This got me to walk in search of something.  It motivated me to travel from point to point playing a game.  I walked over two miles without realizing it. 

I also shared the game with someone who had asked me to try it.  That made it twice the fun. I was able to inject some fun into someone else’s day.   It also prepared me to try and build an adventure for my Grandsons.

There are some simple things of which one should take heed.

Watch where you are walking

Watch your data consumption

Take along a spare charger or battery

Be respectful of others using the space

HAVE FUN

There is more I could say but really I just wanted to share my new discovery.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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