A few people have commented that something is “seriously wrong with you”. They usually say that after I tell them I get up about 4:40 am and go work out. Maybe they are right. I wasn’t always this way. I am a night person by nature. But a few years back, a friend encouraged me to come to do a cycling class with him at the athletic club. I just happen to show up on the day we had the “go all out and almost die” instructor. I thought I was going to die. Instead, it was the beginning of a life-change for me.

Change… it’s an inevitability of life. I’m thankful we get to have a hand in some of the change that happens to us. The part we get to chose is a sliding scale between freedom and discipline. I’ll side with the writer of the book of Corinthians…

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will
not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running
aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that
after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

For me that means my life is a series of choices about what direction I will head.

The getting up early is just one of many. It’ a new day, every day – what will your life be about?