On this Independence Day weekend we celebrate our freedom.

So it seems like a good time to celebrate the freedom that Christian faith and aerobic fitness give to me.

It’s a long, wonderful list of freedoms that I could go on and on about.

I’d rather not do so now because I, like many others I am sure, am looking forward to spending much of my Independence Day weekend enjoying a whole lot of down time.

So in the interest of brevity, I will simply share a list of some of the things that a regular Christian faith and aerobic fitness practice—which for me is running, dog-walking, and spinning, with a little bike-riding thrown in– give me freedom from.

They are, in no particular order: worry, fear, inactivity, brain fog, extra weight, low self-esteem, emotional baggage, and negativity.

I know that a regular faith and fitness practice will never totally free me from all of these issues. And that’s just fine because having to wrestle with them from time to time can often be a good thing.

I’m just grateful that a Christian faith and aerobic fitness practice do for me  exactly what is shared in Hebrews 12: 1-3. It helps me to throw off all that hinders and run the race marked out for me.

On this Independence Day weekend and every day, that definitely is a freedom worth celebrating!