🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

I did a ridiculous thing. I ordered a walking pad to use for five days and return. I can explain. (A walking pad is a treadmill without handles to slide under a desk and walk while you work.)

My husband went out of town for EIGHT days. Our two youngest sons only attend school a few hours in the morning and struggled with Dad being away. Our autistic son rose at 4:30am every morning, requiring full physical contact and attention. I felt like the world was closing in on me. I was the kind of tired that needed to move, but the kind of busy that needed to work. And there was a very short time before I picked up the kids. A "trigger thought" activated and tried to consume me in my weariness: "I have no options."

"Trigger thoughts" are my sticky ones, dangerous and reflexive thoughts that send me spiraling. They can trigger an instantaneous negative reaction OR be the alarm that helps me know I need to change my thinking. I recognized that familiar thought and took action. I can't afford to give the enemy ground.

I made an option. A completely ridiculous one in the name of stickin' it to 'em, and showing the devil he's the one with no options. I needed to work. I wanted to walk. I ordered a walking pad to work while I walked. I'm walking as I write this. Every step I take is like singing a line from an old favorite song, "Let the devil know, 'Not today."

The part that makes it ridiculous is that our budget for walking pads is exactly zero. That's why I'm returning it in five days. Firstly, I needed to know if it was actually possible for me to walk and work at the same time. (I love it.) But mostly, I needed to put the devil in his place. He can't reign in my mind. He's under my heel, hopefully feeling the blows each step I take on this walking pad.

This is the true worship in Romans 12:1-2. Our whole body, our whole mind, our whole being. Turn on this walking song today, and worship with your whole self.

Listen to "Not Today (Remix)" by Hillsong.