In this, the season of resolutions, we often focus on improving ourselves.  Eating more healthy and working out are fine aspirations, but what if this year we focused on something far more lasting and consequential...

How often do we experience misunderstandings amongst ourselves?  Is it because it's not possible or because we don't approach our interactions correctly.  James posits an age old methodology we might be wise to exercise... 

What's your exercise plan?  Do you ever skip a day or go off script?  Truth is we don't have to follow the plan, but there will be repercussions.  Probably not today,  but maybe a week or two later when you aren't looking as good as you'd like or performing at the level you'd expect.  We recognize that working out really is an investment.   Paul eloquently points out in the scripture today, this reality is not exclusive to 'physical' exercise but transcends every aspect of our being.