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I am finding that I am much more "aware" of "Self-honoring" now than I have ever been before.  I am also seeing that things I think will be self-honoring, do not always end up that way, and other things just took a small tweak on how I view it, and all of a sudden, there I am, consciously choosing to treat myself.

Today was a fantastic day full of self-honoring.  I slept in, then got ready to go to the Arlington Fly-in and Airshow!  Felt like a little kid again, climbing over planes, oohing and awing over privately owned planes, warbirds, aerobatic planes, etc.!  I was so blessed to create time to be with my wife, somewhere I was totally unplugged, and present in the moment.  I am also realizing that I don't have to "be somewhere" to accomplish this, I just need to "be".

  

On the flip side, I also performed an exercise today, which I believed would be relaxing, rewarding, and ultimately "Self-honoring".  This exercise was to spend 10 min looking at my self in the mirror, then journal on it, and if you happen to get distracted and look away or something, you start over.  Well, the exercise took me 16 min, as after 4min I chose to get distracted, started over, and made the next 10 min a task.  I was anticipating that this would be a time for reflection, and some introspective thoughts to occur, but the minute I happened to get unfocused and tired, I looked at my lip for just a second, and bam, I was in my stuff.  

From that point on I was so focused on getting through the 10 min exercise, I didn't even think to make it fun. I think I do this in life quite often.  Patience is not typically a strong virtue of mine, and when things don't turn out just like I had planned them, I hurry up and "fix" them, and usually miss what's going on completely.

In church today, the message was on "waiting", and I'm certain the pastor picked this message for me alone. This totally resonated with where I'm at right now.  The bible is all about waiting.  God makes promises, then he waits to fulfill them.  Waiting is also showing obedience to God.  Man I have a lot to learn!

One of the biggest takeaways from today's message to me was from this statement: "Once we take the leap of faith, ask Jesus to be our savior and place our faith and trust in him, then through sanctification, the holy spirit is making us more in the likeness of Jesus, everyday".  It was very powerful to come to some of these revelations today, and the realization that Jesus is unbelievably patient!!!

Today's Self-honoring:

Writing this blog: 1hr

Fly-in and Airshow: 3.5

Church: 1hr

Accumulative Total to-date: 8.83