sore arm

Trenton and I have been playing a little catch here in the last couple of weeks. He is getting ready for the summer baseball season to start, so we have been tossin the ball around a little bit. I have purposely been asking him to not really throw the ball all that hard so far, because I want him to make sure that he is getting his arm loosened up well, so he doesn't hurt himself. Yesterday was the first day that we did some long toss and I let him "open it up a little." He did fine. I thought I would start throwing a little bit harder yesterday as well. Just in the little bit of time that I did...my arm started hurting. It wasn't a pain in the eldbow or anything like that, my shoulder was a little sore, but it really was more in the muscle. I guess that is what happens when you don't use certain muscles for awhile.
I saw a church sign the other day that said "for a healthy heart, exercise your faith." I liked that. When we go for long periods of time without exercising our faith our heart gets hard and our spiritual health tanks. Then when we do decide to exercise our faith...it hurts, it makes us a little sore.
Here is the catch...what do you do then? If I say well I can't really "throw" anymore, it hurts too bad... eventually i will just not try. But, if I give it a day, and then start back slow and just toss the ball around a little bit and begin to rebuild that stamina and rehab it slowly...eventually the strength and stamina will return. If you say well, exercising my faith was just too difficult...eventually you just wont try anymore. But, if you work at it everyday... it gets stronger and you begin to see a renewed vitality in your spirit.

For a healthy heart...exercise your faith