My Personal Macchu Picchu

Okay, so one of the "impossible" things in my life now and quite frankly has always been is exercising.  My attitude towards this particular torture necessity has been one of great imagined victory and little to no physical follow through.  Example:  I am imagining myself gracefully running a 5k, my strides long and lean, my physique matching those strides.  Confidently crossing the finish line smiling and ready for the next challenge.. hiking Macchu Picchu maybe?  Reality.  I set the alarm clock to go to the gym; I WILL go in the morning and start my day off with exercise!  6am. Hit snooze. 6:07am. Hit snooze. 6:30am. Feel irritated because I didn't actually sleep during the snooze button and now it is pointless to go because I don't have much time when I get there.

 
  Am I alone in this?  *Sigh*  I even ordered exercise DVDs through SwapaDVD and tried the Dance Your Way Slim only to find that I still have no rhythm and the videos still move so fast assuming that you have been dancing since the age of three...(which I haven't since my grandmother prayed to God that I would lose my ability to dance at roughly that age. True story!)

   Soooo....like the Apostle Paul I must beat my body and make it my slave (1 Corinthians 9:27)!   Why?  Well because I know that God has bigger things planned for me!  As I draw closer to Him and seek His will and desires for my life I will be given more to accomplish and I need to be physically fit to fulfill all that He has for me to do.  Who knows, I may actually need to hike Macchu Picchu someday and wouldn't it be a sad thing if instead of savoring such a moment I would instead be concentrating on how ill-equipped I am for such a journey?
  For now my personal Macchu Picchu is simply getting into a routine of daily exercise.  Praise God that with HIM all things are possible!

By the way, Macchu Picchu is a three to four day hike at 12,010 feet above sea level.