In an attempt to keep up our 15,000 steps-a-day program, we leashed the dog and walked down the driveway for a stroll. We made it twenty feet when the neighbor’s dogs ran into the street.
We really didn’t need two extra canines tagging along, so we walked back up the driveway and returned them, adding a full 257 steps to our tally. However, (remember, there usually is one!) we had a chance to reacquaint ourselves with the neighbors and now have a dinner date with them.
Following our taxing walk, I prepared to attend my Biblical School class after missing the first three of the year. To thank my friends who audiotaped the sessions, I gave them a prayer card from one of the 40-some churches visited in Rome. This particular card featured an eight-foot wooden crucifix which did not burn when the first church did. The crucifix is taken from the church and venerated at St. Peter’s Basilica during a Jubilee year. Guess what tonight’s lesson entailed? Jesus fulfilling the Old Testament Jubilee.
I think I was supposed to bring that prayer card 5,567 miles just to give it to my friends tonight. And we were supposed to walk 257 steps just to get together with our neighbors. Excellent outcomes.