Yesterday I went for physical therapy and I really did not want to go. He is working on areas that don't want to be worked on. I have found the more discomfort I feel the less I want to engage in this level of therapy. Yet ultimately I know it is for the long term benefit of me walking normally again. My muscles are screaming , No, No , No.!!!!!!!!!!!! Leave me alone, let me rest. Yet the more we stretch them the better  the outcome. When I was in the hospital this past Feb. I watched a music video that showed someone bike riding. In my heart I caught a glimpse of me bike riding again. I wasn't even able to move my leg at this time. The doctors were not even sure if I would walk again, yet I kept picturing myself riding a bike. Then I went to California and people were bike riding on the Santa Monica Beach.  I wanted so much to be a bike rider on the beach but I was still having to use my walker. I heard myself say to my daughter and son-in-law the next time I come here I will bike ride on this beach. My long term goal was bike riding, that was my "Prize", my immediate situation was getting help out of bed. I have progressed from wheelchair to walker then to the cane, and I believe very soon will lay the cane down. So what ever our situation we need to keep our eyes on the long term prize and take the necessary steps to get there. The bike riding was not realistic 6 mos. ago, but there have been lot's of steps in between to make it more reachable today.                                          
          Phillippians3:13,14   1)  forget the past  2) look forward to what lies ahead 3) strain to reach the end of the race (  It is going to take effort!!!)  4) receive the prize.