Monday
Today was a Monday like no other. After not going to gym for a few days, I went again today but did what I’ve never done before on a Monday. To start with I gave myself permission to not go early this morning. With it being winter and the sun rising so late, I allowed myself to sleep in and chose to go later. After all, no one was waiting for me or expecting me. I can go when I please.
So after catching up with the work that came in over the weekend, I set off for gym at around 11am. It was 11-15am when I got in the pool and started doing laps. I swam 40 lengths, so that’s a kilometer. Then I showered, washed my hair and got back into my gym kit. After drying my hair, I went upstairs to the main workout area and cycled 10km before jogging/walking 3km.
I was 35 minutes in the pool, 23 minutes on the bike and 23:31 on the treadmill. It was my mini triathlon. Albeit very slow, I did the exercise. I normally would do this on a Saturday, never on a Monday. When I walked out the gym, I felt I had been in another world.
I recovered, did some more work and then Mike and I walked to the sports fields and met up with Peter and Riana…Peter flying his plane and Riana walking Meggy. Sunset from the Fish Hoek sports fields…
Home for dinner and here I am.
Nugget from my journey – the emotion that comes with parenting can be overwhelming. We so desperately want what’s best for our children, that the number of prayers prayed over the course of their lives thus far exceeds those for anything else. God’s faithfulness in providing for Stacey and David leaves me in awe. He made Stacey to be an engineer. She didn’t think she would get into Engineering at UCT but she did. 1% made the difference. She got 79% for her Matric maths exam – not the A she needed – but someone somewhere in the Matric maths marking department declared her exam papers good enough for an A. So there was this little *. 79%*
*Condoned to an A.
That right there got Stacey into Engineering at UCT. But there’s more. She had applied for Engineering as her second option. As soon as she saw she had enough to be accepted into Engineering she phoned the Engineering department at UCT and asked if she could make it her first option. They said we must phone them in two days time to get the answer. We didn’t have to wait. The next day UCT called her to say they were offering her a place to study engineering. They would be emailing immediately and could she please respond as soon as possible. Of course she did. Four years of hard work followed. Stacey was in the 10% of engineers of her intake that got to thesis stage in four years.
And of course, then came Adrian! What a blessing he is. And then came Elsie! What a blessing she is.
God is faithful. There is more to come.
Genesis 21:22
God is with you in all that you do.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
Swim, cycle, run
Braces:
Day 244