Preventative Maintenance

This morning I found it a little ironic as I could hardly move from my adventure yesterday that I go out of my way to do PM on my cars, but avoid doing any on my physical body. So why is that? Preventative Maintenance makes sense, not only for our cars, heating systems, and dishwasher, but for our bodies and our spirits.

I am really good about getting preventative maintenance on my vehicles, getting the oil changed every 5000 miles taking it in every 15,000 for a look over and replacing the belts, fluids and such as recommended. It is always cheaper in the long run than a car payment.

I think I am pretty good about doing the spiritual preventative maintenance. First, I make it a priority in my life to spend time with the Lord daily. That time is spent with reading the Bible, writing in my journal, reading devotionals, praying for others, praying for myself and just sitting to listen to Him and what He would like to say to me. I really try and do it first thing in the morning, but there are a few mornings that I don’t make it first thing, but I make sure I get it in for the day. I just hate it when I miss the first thing in the morning. I just don’t feel right until I get it in. I relate it to getting a caffeine headache when I don’t have my morning cup of tea. Just as my physical body craves the caffeine, my spirit craves that time with God.

Preventative Maintenance for my body should be a simple thing. I take vitamins daily, I try and get at least six hours of sleep each night ( six is good considering that my husband gets up at least by 4am each day). I eat pretty healthy, but I’m a fan of McDonalds cheeseburgers and fries. I guess the only thing healthy in the way of eating I do is that I don’t eat the deserts, candy or soda (that way I really don’t gain weight). What I don’t do is exercise.

Exercise is such a simple thing; just a walk around the block each day would do it. I know that when I do exercise I feel better and I sleep better. I know I have the discipline to exercise. I know that if I would exercise I wouldn’t be in as much pain on those days when I do have adventures like I did yesterday. I guess it is just starting and that is the problem, I know that when I start I will need to keep it up and I hate not finishing something.

So maybe now that I have told everyone that I need to exercise, I will get started? I’ll let you know in a week or two how it goes.