February 17, 2015. Mayport Naval Station, FL. On Level Ground

As we sit in our motor home, we are roughly 10 feet above sea level and the Atlantic Ocean is visible, less than a mile out our front window. We are more level than anyplace we have ever been (including the space we were in here at Mayport a year ago) and our set-up did not include any wood under our jacks or under our wheels. Our refrigerator doors stay where we open them, and our bathroom door and medicine cabinet doors also stay in place when opened. We are on level ground and the steepest incline is on the treadmill at the Fitness Center.
I have begun substituting "working out" the past few days for working as we have been doing for the past 9+ volunteer ministry months. With the prospect of the physical demands of The Great Passion Play coming in May, it's important to have some physical activity to replace the lack of it we will have before we get back to Arkansas with a possible stop back in Madison. Karen and I both shed some pounds at TGPP and felt physically better than we did when we were first starting out on the road.
> Spiritually, it's also important to be on level ground with an upward focus and at Source of Light we felt that we were being fed, helping advance the Gospel as we assisted those who were "in the field" by providing literature for teaching and discipling as well as prayer and financial support for their programs. We have both maintained our daily Bible reading with our quiet times being late PM for Karen and early AM for me. Amazing that after 41 years of marriage (in 11 days), our body clocks have stayed as they were when we first met and while Karen gets more awake as the day goes on, I seem to lose oomph as late afternoon and evening approach. Hard to be on level ground when one of us is a "winder" and the other is an "unwinder". As with most couples and other relationships, it takes effort to stay on the level, and just like the physical work out, so we continue to work out in all the other areas of life as well.
In all our efforts to find physical, spiritual, emotional and relational balance, we continue to look to The Lord, resting in His unconditional and unchanging love, grace and forgiveness. Thank You, Lord for Who You are and all You have done for us. The best is yet to come. PTL.

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