Looking Up
Downtown LA never looked better. Credit: David Toussaint. Header image Credit: nOnick
Why didn’t I think of this?
I have been seeing the chiropractor recently for a chronic back injury I have from playing so many years of competitive volleyball. I sure didn’t feel any problems when I was younger, but now, all those years of diving and jumping on hard wood floors has taken its toll. If I don’t go through a 30 minute exercise regimen every morning, I can forget about walking without any pain.
My chiropractor has added some new exercises lately which have caused me to literally look up. In fact, did you know that the proper way to stand up every time is push up from your feet and tilt your head up, looking toward the sky! I didn’t know that. And then he gave me an additional exercise – a variation of a squat – that causes me to look up the entire time.
Through these exercises I have been asked to look up more – which lead me to believe that isn’t that what God has been asking me to do all the time. Why did it take the chiropractor to have me look toward heaven? Why didn’t I just normally do that any way – I mean if I really want to improve my walk – is there any better way?
So, the lesson of this post is that there is a correlation between walking and looking up. To have the best walk possible, keep your eyes toward your eternal home, where our King sits – protecting and loving us and wishing we would just keep focused on Him.
I lift up my eyes to you,
to you whose throne is in heaven. Psalm 123:1
Also, when looking for applicable photos for this post, I saw some incredible images when I searched Flickr for “looking up.” Look at some of these beautiful images. I’ve been missing out of so much beauty because I’ve never taken the time to look up. Try it out and let me know what you see!
Credit: Krug6
Keeping my eyes upward,
Cindy
