Committing to eliminate idleness...

For the past few days, I found out Lent was coming up. Now I'm not Catholic, and don't believe that as a born again Christian you have to eliminate anything prior to celebrating Christ's death and resurrection. However, the idea of periodically giving something up to remind you of Christ's sacrifice, I think is a good practice. I really didn't come up with anything good, but I did venture a new goal, which in essence is giving up idleness. I don't particularly consider myself "idle." But in the last month, I really haven't been caring for myself as well as I should and I feel I have be idle (i.e. eating poorly, not exercising, not "feeding" myself through the Word, spending too much time on FB, etc). I could make excuses (Tobin was gone, I was tired, I've been worried about my niece, etc. etc.), but I've decided to take action. I'm writing this on here only to get some thoughts out and try to be accountable. Basically, I am committed to a new workout program, that I've started before, but never fully finished, nor done it consistently. You may or may not have heard about it, but it's called P90X. Don't know what the P stands for, but I like to say "Pain for 90 days to the Xtreme." That's basically what I've started. Currently I am on Day 3, and I feel the pain. I barely can make it up and down the stairs in our house. And I'm waiting for a patient to ask me why I'm wincing when I sit down to talk with them. So I'm Day 3 of 90. I want to be consistent, may not be able to be perfect, but want to see it through to the end. It just so happens I'm during this through Lent. So I thought, well, then I'm doing it for a better goal as well to improve the health of this weary vessel. I pray through these efforts, I'll have more energy and strength to do what God wants me to do. So please keep me accountable, oh great Blogger internet abyss and faithful blogger readers, I should be done June 4th. Here we go! Bring it!