person whisperer

There is a way to excersize your brain and soul. For everyone it's different. For me its running. The other night I went for a "jun" (not quite a jog, but not a run either) and I was thinking, praying and meditating on my life, my self, my desicions and everything in between. As I'm "junning" the face of a man enters my head, he's a round-faced Mexican with too-white teeth and a thousand dogs in his yard the size of a dude ranch. You got it, Cesar Milan, the infamous dog whisperer... why did I think of him?

This crazy Mexican says that dogs need three things to live healthy, happy lives:

Excersize

Discipline

Affection

-- in that order.

I'm thinking I've gone batty since I'm thinking of the dog whisperer during my "jun" that is meant for clearing my head and praying for direction in life. Then I think, 'wait, can't that be applied to people at some level?' I need to excersize (my spiritual gifts, my physical body, my brain), I need discipline (daily devotional, a routine, eating right), and then maybe - JUST MAYBE - God will see fit to reward me with affection and show me the path to true joy and peace, and allow me to "affect" (love).

Not that I think God withholds affection from me, I think that if He requires me to excersize and lead a more disciplined life, that is His highest form of love because in the end I will be grateful and live a joyful life.