{"id":2431,"date":"2012-05-23T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:33:32","slug":"morning-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/morning-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went on my early morning half-mile-each-way walk. (I like to walk<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The temperature was a tad nippy, the precipitation was barely drippy, the air currents were somewhat whippy, and I felt borderline zippy.<\/p>\n

As I walked, I talked. In my head. With certain subjects on the agenda. <\/p>\n

But as I walked, some things I saw altered the agenda and the conversation…<\/p>\n

The first car that zoomed by reminded me to ask God to (1) keep these drivers safe, (2) bless these drivers, (3) give these drivers a good day, and (4) revive, renew, redeem, and restore these drivers. That was a good-for-the-day series of requests intended to cover everyone who drives by our place.<\/p>\n

I kept on walking, returning to my agenda.<\/p>\n

Then I saw that house. It reminded me of a neighbor’s physical uncertainty and potential illness. And that reminded me of another neighbor, also sick and presently further away. Then I mentioned two family members, also not well. And the very sick child of a missionary-family-in-waiting.<\/p>\n

And I kept on walking, picking up my agenda where I’d left off, more or less.<\/p>\n

But seeing a certain car, I bumped an agenda item up on the list. So I prayed for our two school teachers. And the chorus director. And the principal. Tomorrow night is the closing program (aka, Graduation and\/or Commencement). And Friday is the last day of school. And Saturday is the much-anticipated school picnic.<\/p>\n

Walk and talk. Talk and walk. But quietly. If you’d been there with me, you likely wouldn’t have heard either.<\/p>\n

But God did. I believe that.<\/p>\n

Oh. Something else from my walk. I heard geese honking. (They have to around here since the cows have no horns.) I looked up, but couldn’t see them. I caught on that I should be looking down. Yes, down<\/em>!<\/p>\n

There they came, four Canada geese rising from the Pudding River bottom in full flight, but still below my level.<\/p>\n

As they rose and overflew me, they were still so low I could hear their wing gears grinding. I have never heard that sound before. Very neat!<\/b> Seriously, their bones or tendons or muscles or gears or something were making very audible sounds, not at all to be confused with the sound of flapping wings.<\/p>\n

I hope you (or you or you or you) is a bird watcher\/hearer and can tell me what I heard.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a great morning walk.<\/p>\n

Was I prayer walking<\/a>? I doubt it, unless prayer walking is merely defined as praying while walking.<\/p>\n

Most of my praying is while walking, though I still do some prayer kneeling and some prayer sitting and some prayer lying and some prayer driving. (Of those five, the first and last are with my eyes open, OK?)<\/p>\n

PS: I know I should walk further<\/a> than a mile, but I didn’t put our residence and the bridge where they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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