So I'm watching "Meet the Browns" after working out. IT's an episode in which the Colonel has to go to his low impact step class, and one in which Reggie and the school principal have a "fight" over Cora that is reminiscent of The Matrix.

Which reminds me of a thought I had while working out. I pump iron at least a couple of times a week, and then I (usually) swim 2-3 times a week. I do my best to make exercise a priority. Since my surgery, and thinking back on having beat cancer, I realize that mine has been a blessed life, and while I'm excited about the prospect of seeing Jesus face-to-face, that's something that will happen in the fullness of time, will last for eternity, and doesn't need to be rushed. While I'm on this side of the Jordan, I choose to make the most of it.

So I try to eat properly and to get plenty of exercise. In general, I try to exercise stewardship over all that God has given me; sometimes I'm more successful than other times. But I'm in the gym, and people are running, or pumping, or doing situps... there's a woman with a Marines shirt on that says "Pain is Weakness leaving the body." It occurs to me that the same way some of us work on our physical bodies, we the Body of Christ should work on our Spiritual or Corporate Body. What if, as a Corporate Body, we Christians regularly engaged in activities that, pushed us to our spiritual limits, but in that process helped us to grow? What if we, as a Corporate Body, were to set aside a period of time in which we did something to get our Heart Rate up, and were to keep that Heart Rate up for a while, in knowledge that an increased Heart Rate would lead to increased Heart Health?

And what if we engaged in these activities with inentionality, because we understood that these spiritual exercises, which might lead to spiritual pain, were the signs of spiritual weakness leaving our spiritual (or our Corporate) bodies?

I had a couple more topics, but don't remember them now. Hopefully, these writing exercises will also help my memory improve.