Time to Take a Walk
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche There is something about taking a walk that clears the mind and centers the soul. Things that weighed emotionally very heavy before walking seemed lighter after the walk. When I am emotionally beat down, I put on the walking shoes. I get my CD player and my friend Charlotte Hillman’s CD – Hallelujah, Let’s Praise His Name (Recorded Live at the Covenant Life Family Worship Center in Oklahoma City ) and away I go. I like to walk into the Arizona Sunrise listening to Charlotte ’s mother do the Lord’s Prayer. I watch the sun come up over the eastern mountains looking over into the Phoenix Valley . When her Amen is finished I am off. The music is pumping and I am stepping. The first half mile is always the toughest. It’s the one that laughs at you. It reminds you are of how messed up you are physically and emotionally and no amount of walking can change that. ...