No Pain - No Gain

This is my first blog. Wow. It feels like . . . like word.

This will be my new way of communicating with many of you friends. Thanks for reading my blogs. I will attempt to make them actually have some value . . . otherwise, I will shut my fingers.

Workout. Got my membership at LA Fitness. Its an intimidating thing to go to the gym. I signed up for the free "personal trainer" session. What I didn't know was that it would cost me more than I thought. First it wasn't about improving my physical fitness only, it was about selling me their personal trainer package. Somehow I was left with the impression that I can't do it on my own. Maybe that is not far from the truth based on my history of many false starts. The reality is that they want to charge me $60 per session. Wow. That is what some professional counselors charge. This 26 year old fitness student wants to charge me $60 an hour to "motivate" and "instruct me" on how to kill my body. I would really like to have a trainer but not at that rate. She worked me out hard. I felt like such a wimp. . . almost cried like a girl during the workout. What was embarassing was that some of the weights had like 15 lbs on them. I bet she went home and laughed with her husband about me.
I barely made it home, my arms were too worn out to even steer. I'm not kidding. Little did I now that the worst would not come for a couple more days. By Sunday, my arms were incredible soar that it was even painful to lift my arms up to my mouth when eating a hamburger. After 10 tylenols, gobs of tiger balm and a great massage by Jen, I still feel like crap. Why did I do this?
They say, "No pain, No gain". This has been very painful. Discipline is required.

What about my spiritual walk? There is also a degree of discipline that is required to walk close to God. Not just going to church or skipping out on the big sins. It takes conscious effort to make time for God in our lives. I'm not talking about fleshly attempts at reaching God. I'm talking about the spiritual disciplines. I have also fallen short and had plenty of disappointing false starts. Maybe this time, it will stick. Never give up!