Soar
“Jesus, may the unsearchable, innumerable, and inexhaustible riches of the gospel renew me today with youth-like energy, that I may soar like an eagle and live to the praise of your glorious grace! ”
Someday we'll have eternal bodies. My current aches, pains and restrictions are clear and present reminders of that hope. One day we’ll double over, not in pain, but in praise. One day, our knees won't crackle and our bones won't break. No more back problems or stomach aches. No more cancer, heart disease, diabetes or sore throats. Someday.
Until then - like you - I will try and take care of my body, trusting God with the results as His gifts and my limits just the same. Doing both takes grace.
Friends, may you and I be a resource of comfort for the hurting and struggling, and a source of inspiration and motivation for those that see today - maybe for the first time - as a day to make bodily stewardship a means of praise. This temporary body carries the soul, so may how we treat it be a small, silent, humble way of showing respect for that honor.
May we deal with our debilitating ache and our private pain with an uncommon grace. May our abilities and our disabilities, our personal records and our medical records, carry a message to the world that, although we grow weary, we are the Body.
- Jimmy Peña
A Birthday Prayer
Thank you, Lord, for my life, my wife, family, friends, and my 2nd mountain. Thank you that you've numbered my days. Whereas when I was younger that truth seemed limiting, these days it's liberating. As the years claim their increase on me, so does my dependence on you.
Thank you for another year to try and live and love like you. And thank you for enough health to keep fighting the good fight. Thank you that the fire you lit in my belly is still burning. Your grace still amazes me. Where some may think that faith grows when physical goals are achieved, my faith in you is increasing with every goal I can't reach.
Please bless each reader. Bless their health and that of their loved ones. Here's to 48, Lord. This year will get the best of me. Amen.
- JP
In just over 2 months, we will have our 3rd Annual PrayFit Run in Westlake Village to benefit kids and families impacted by disabilities. But we need your help to pull this off. If you can’t be there in person, you can walk or run in our virtual component or you can donate to the cause.
