Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips

It was the ninth day of taking a walk in 2009. As a coincidence, it was the first day of October 2009. What was important was that it was the first day that I woke feeling good.

The previous eight days I woke in pain. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, my back hurt, my shoulders hurt, my arms hurt…let’s see, have I missed any major body parts?

The ninth day I woke, stood next to the bed, and paused. I waited a few moments – nothing hurt. Wow. This is how you are supposed to feel. Good health without pain. A little blessing, no a big blessing while on the road.

Pains would return; they would return that same afternoon. The returned pains, however, were not like the old pains. The old pains didn’t come back the rest of the walk.

Simple explanations are that I acclimated to the walk. My muscles grew to the task, and so on. Well, the simple explanation are just “and so on.” The complex explanations are, well complex. Blessings are like that, difficult to explain but simple to enjoy.