Pressing On

I  just love everything about this shirt. I bought it a little over a year ago. I adore the woman who created this company and wanted to show my love and support by purchasing her product. Then I fell in love with the feel and bought another and even some as gifts.  It's not so much the quality of the fabric or even my supporting my friend who owns the company. I love, love love the message "Wear Love, put in on, wear it out." What a great idea.  We are told to love our neighbor as ourselves and let's face it, we all love ourselves. I think that's why God instructs us to love others like that. Not everyone is easy to love but those are usually the ones who need it the most. I know I can be difficult to love at times. I'm sure my hubby could agree.  Sometimes I just get so focused on loving myself, making sure I'm comfortable, that my needs and wants are being met. I forget about loving others. I get up and go about my day not thinking or asking God how He ...

Today was a good running day for Annie and I. Jim usually runs with us on Saturdays but he was backlogged with work stuff.  So we headed out and I was thinking I would just run the typical 1.5 with Annie, drop her back off at the house and do another couple of miles on my own. The weather was awesome, my playlist was great and Annie had a lot of puppy energy to burn. As we were heading home I could tell she wanted to keep going. She looked up at me with those eyes as if to say, " please don't make me go home, let me come with you this time. I am grown up, I can handle it." So I caved and ran her another mile and half. I had to pushed her a little to finish strong as that energy began to fade. With those miles behind her and tongue hanging to the ground by the time we got to the driveway, I'm sure she was thrilled to now go hang out with dad in his office.  I wasn't sure how much further I would continue to go but had decided just another couple of miles. I checked...