{"id":682,"date":"2010-08-25T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/08\/a-rainy-blue-day.html"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:26:46","slug":"a-rainy-blue-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/08\/a-rainy-blue-day.html","title":{"rendered":"A Rainy Blue Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s been raining: pouring, driving, hard rain for days. &nbsp;Work&#8217;s been pouring, too: so much to do, not enough time to get it all done. &nbsp;Major transitions in the family: a close relative having surgery, kids demanding, emotional dramas. &nbsp;Money challenges. &nbsp;It&#8217;s an all-around difficult time. &nbsp;Seems like everything at once is pouring down. &nbsp;What to do?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Go to the gym. &nbsp;Work it all out. &nbsp;Get the blood flowing and the heart pumping. &nbsp;Move the limbs, and grease my wheels. &nbsp;Take action, instead of doing what I used to do &#8211; sit in a dark room in front of the TV and eat away the blues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While I am moving and re-creating, I&#8217;m going to think of what&#8217;s good in my life: my wonderful family, a relative that&#8217;s on-the-mend after surgery, a roof over my head, jobs to do, blogs to write, comments to read (thank you so much &#8211; love hearing from you), a book and movie coming out next year on God and spiritual connection (please join me at www.mysteriesoftheJesusprayer.com\/mailing.html and make my day!), my health and recovery from obesity, and most of all &#8211; a Creator who loves me and has again, today, given me life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What&#8217;s happening with YOU today? &nbsp;How&#8217;s you weather &#8211; both outside and inside YOU? &nbsp;Please post a comment, telling us how it&#8217;s going, and what you&#8217;re doing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been raining: pouring, driving, hard rain for days. &nbsp;Work&#8217;s been pouring, too: so much to do, not enough time to get it all done. &nbsp;Major transitions in the family: a close relative having surgery, kids demanding, emotional dramas. &nbsp;Money challenges. &nbsp;It&#8217;s an all-around difficult time. &nbsp;Seems like everything at once is pouring down. &nbsp;What&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-health","category-inspiration","category-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Rainy Blue Day - Dr. Norris J. 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