With One Step With One Flow You Will Know Synchronicity...

Okay, so here's the deal...today same as any other day recently, I've been feeling much better about my back. The doctor has told me she believes I have sciatica...fun for me right...not so much. Her advice; "stop running." I heeded it pretty much til it was either do something or fall face first onto a really sharp ice pick. I went swimming, did the elliptical trainer and some mild jogging in a really short circle in the community fitness center upstairs rubberized track...and I was going nuts.

I went to physical therapy and was again told why I probably didn't need an MRI and the therapist was really cool and told me most times with what I had which could be a mild case of sciatica, could be fixed over time with a regimen of stretching and rest and again little to no running. I had prayed for and fasted for help from God to ease my sore back and keep me from having nerve damage in my lower back and I just thought, "you know, I've been doing what is required for the blessing of "health to my navel and marrow to my bones - run and not be weary, walk and not faint" so why not ask for the promise that went with the principle? Yah, why not?

So I did.

As of today, I have very little ache and stiffness in my back, I stretch and do what my therapist told me to do, have appointments with the PT clinic through July and probably scaring the crap out of my Personal Health Coach.  (hey, I promised you and me and my body I'd listen to it and I have...promise) I have run nearly every day this week except for yesterday and feel great. No residual discomfort whatsoever...so what does this tell me? God answers prayers, He delivers when called upon and always has the game plan firmly tucked into his waistband and always calls the right play when it's needed. All I have to do is execute it and all will be well.

Today I ran a different route. I got about 3 and a half miles into my run and shut it down. At 10:30am the temperature in Warrens-tucky was about 88 degrees with 20 degrees less humidity and I was feeling a bit like I just needed to take a walk for a while...so my game plan was to run in the shade walk in the sun. That plan gives me a great chance to get a tan on my scary mask tattoo and my arms as well not to mention take the time to look around for things that might be beautiful and otherwise missed, besides I was sweating like a Fin in a sauna.

As I was coming up the street and headed toward home I came up on the Warrensburg post office and saw as I approached a guy who looked like an extra from "Night of the Living Dead" minus a the cool leprosy special effects makeup. He was maybe between the age of 70 and half way to Methuselah and moved like he couldn't decide to take the next step or take a dirt nap...poor bugger. I could tell he was going into the post office because he had decided to head up the wheel chair ramp to the front doors and at the last minute decided maybe that was more cardio than he wanted to do in a hot humid morning so he went around it. I quickly ran around him, grabbed the front door to the post office and held it for him so he could shuffle inside.

He mumbled something unintelligible to me as he passed by and after that I took off and headed home. It got me to thinking...Nothing happens by accident. Everything is in perfect sync. Had I not stopped to walk/run the rest of the way home, I would have missed the chance to help this old gentleman out and even though it was no big deal to me, just one random act of kindness shown an old man might parlay into something really big for him later on...okay maybe not but who knows? Maybe its just that when I'm an old codger and can't get my feet moving quite as fluidly as I do now, I'm hoping that the karma I banked early in my life will pay dividends when I'm half way to pushing up daisies.

So I thanked God for the surreality check and finished my run. I don't know how long it took but I know I was still sweating like I'd just run through a car wash and grateful for the experience. So I have that going for me.

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Cheers.