WOMAN Challenge

What is the WOMAN Challenge?

This May, thousands of women across the country will embark on an eight-week physical activity challenge for better health. They will be part of the WOMAN Challenge-that is, Women and girls Out Moving Across the Nation.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health is coordinating the WOMAN Challenge to kick off the ninth annual National Women's Health Week (May 11-17, 2008). This free eight week challenge encourages women and girls to walk 10,000 steps or get 30 minutes of moderate exercise every day.

The WOMAN Challenge begins on Mother's Day, May 11, and ends on July 5, 2008.

Join the "Sole Sisters" team at http://www.womenshealth.gov/woman/register.cfm.

And keep movin'!

Knees To The Earth

On April 17, 1952, President Harry S. Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National Day of Prayer into law. It falls on the first Thursday of May each year - today, in fact. It seems that our nation needs to be reminded to pray, to engage in corporate prayer, at least once a year. Peculiar, I think. Remind us to pray? Are you kidding? How could you forget? But yet, I find myself forgetting to pray. Forgetting to give thanks. Praying when I'm too tired to really PRAY pray - heart felt, soul searching, passionate prayer. I am ashamed. But I am so thankful, I really am! I am only alive by the grace of God, who healed me from cancer last year. He had a reason to spare me, of that I'm sure. And boy, did I pray through those days! How could I become so complacent, so busy, that I wouldn't take the time to pray as I should? My priorities need to be re-evaluated. God is listening, it's just that I'm not saying enough...

Dear God,

Thank you for my life, and for every blessing. Thank you for loving me, unconditionally, and so faithfully. I pray for those who don't know you, Lord. I pray your Holy Spirit will enter their hearts, that they will be convicted, and accept you as their Lord and Savior. I pray your will be done in my life, and I thank you for the gift of prayer. May I never take it for granted.

In Jesus' holy name, AMEN.

Stand Still and Let God Move

Most days are not easy, some days are downright hard. There is so much stress in the world; I wonder how our great-grandparents would handle today's world. If you're like me, you get caught up trying to solve all your own problems, and everyone else's that you hold dear. But, then you get bogged down, and you realize, you can't do a thing without God. Why are we humans so stubborn, so willing to "let go and let God", then turn around in 5 minutes and take it all back? I can't be the only one, you must understand what I mean.

God will speak to you in so many ways, if only you will "stand still and let God move". Good song, better words to live by.

Live in peace!
Psalm 107:28-30

The Gift

I want you to know what a gift I have been given. It you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a Christian and count my being saved as my greatest gift. But I don't deserve it - never did, don't now, never will. But it's been given to me all the same. Ain't God good? I wish I were like that. Willing to give to people who don't deserve it. I certainly try to have that maturity, that ability to look past the fault. Sometimes I even succeed. And that can really make you feel good about yourself. But don't forget where that gift came from... We as humans have an awful tendency to think of ourselves first, "what's in it for me", "why can't I have one?", "why didn't I win?" Waa waa, poor me. No body wants to attend your pity party. I try real hard not to be self-centered. I certainly get a lot more out of doing something for someone else, being happy for someone else, being there for someone else. You should try it. And give God the glory...

Love life!

Philippians 2:21