Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Give and take
I recently started taking a Nia (Neuro Integrative Action) dance class at the MUSC gym downtown on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's a good workout, but it's also a lot of fun. It's a mix of jazz, martial arts and yoga-type dancing, and it all revolves around personal style and creativity. You follow an instructor, but you also dance "free style" based on which body part she tells you to focus on. The music is awesome, and it's a great way to end the work day. You really "shake it all off!"Today, however, I found it difficult to "shake off" the migraine that had crept up earlier in the day. Although I felt a little better while I was dancing and exercising, the headache and nausea progressed after I left the class and prepared to head to my next stop, the Crittendon House for young pregnant girls (where I volunteer with other ladies from my church the second Tuesday of each month). I thought to myself once I got there, "You know, why didn't I call them and tell them I couldn't make it tonight? I feel like crap. I should have just gone home." I decided to go anyways, and I am so glad that I did. Even with the aid of Excedrin, my migraines typically don't go away quickly. A long nap and several hours are typically the only remedies for me. But once I got to the house and started chatting with the girls and painting their fingernails and toenails, I completely forgot about my migraine. Before I knew it, an hour and a half had gone by, we were packing up our stuff, and I realized it was gone. Completely! (That's a big thing for me, because, again, these things usually put me out for the night.)
You know, it never fails -- whenever I give of myself to benefit someone else, I always get something in return. My own personal gain is not the motivation behind why I give, but I always find that if I have a need, it's met because I sacrifice of myself. I'm not saying that I'm some Mother Teresa here or anything. Yeah, I still do my own things and have my selfish ways. But when I put my own needs aside and concern myself instead with someone else's, I learn that my needs are always met, almost simultaneously! It's really amazing how that works. Baffles me every time... but in a good way!
"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoeverFrom my heart,
sows generously will also reap generously." -2 Corinthians 9:6
Weslynn at 9:15 PM
2 Comments
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at 10/11/2006 2:28 PM
said... Yeah - God's got a sense of humor like that. He definitely keeps His promises that if we give, we will recieve. Sometimes it's in material things, sometimes He takes away a headache and sometimes, well, sometimes He just shows us a little extra attention. . . .
Love ya!-
at 10/11/2006 11:20 PM
said...
I have just completed reading your blogs...awesome very inspirational to me...Blessings!!