Blog Post

A Great Sunday

Posted by: Felissa M. Garcia
March 08, 2009
Topic: My Daily Personal Life, by Felissa M. Garcia

Today was yet another excellent day for me. I woke up at 6 (ha! daylight savings time did me in). I meditated then I went for my run. I am now up to very close to three miles of running. I know that might not sound like a lot, and in fact, I used to run 15 miles at a time in my younger days, but for me, right now, that's a huge accomplishment. I'm really excited about running the San Francisco Marathon in July (well, tha half marathon), and then in October I'm going to run the full Duke City Marathon. I'm really excited about it. I hope I just don't run into any injuries along the way.

Well we are down to cleaning just my own bedroom and the upstairs workout area and upstairs sitting room. My dog, Boo, ruined the carpet upstairs so we tore it out and it's getting re-tiled with this really cool tile. It's gonna look great. I'm enjoying my new sitting room where I get to meditate, pray, blog, write and just rest. Boo is always at my feet, of course. My hubby is out shopping for stuff we need. He likes to shop more than I do! I love him so much.

We've decided also that we are going to walk the whole way to Chimayo, or Santuario. Many people refer to it differently. We haven't decided which week we are going to do it. We don't want to be among the crowds but I will let you know when we are back after we go. So all of a sudden there will be about three or four days that I don't blog and that could be the time we go for that walk. I know it will be difficult but when I think at this time of year what Jesus went through, the walk is nothing in comparison. The word in my mind is "repent". We all have a lot of that to do. For being unkind to other people, for being prideful. For being selfish or jealous or other things like that. I believe we all experience those things for which we must repent. The reason I say this is because at the last church sermon I heard, they talked about how humble Jesus was to die on the cross. Imagine the process of dying. We all want to do it in privacy, in comfort, with our families around us, nobody gawking at us, we want to be under the covers perhaps so nobody sees our dying bodies. But look at Jesus. He died on the cross, fully exposed for all to see, and for those who wanted to, to mock him and laugh at him. I think about all of the material things I am so prideful about. My home, cars, business, clothes, freaking sunglasses for crying out loud. That is shameful to me when I think about that Jesus was so humble, he didn't care about a house, cars, clothes, sunglasses, he just died, fully exposed, and beaten up, on the cross in front of everybody and his own Mother couldn't even hold him to comfort him. I don't know what your beliefs are. I normally don't believe in much myself. So I guess it's fair to say I was touched by that sermon and I don't even know who the pastor was.

I need to go. That was tough to talk about. Felissa