Bacon Strength & Performance

In the kitchen… 👨🏻‍🍳🍳🥓🥩

Inspired by a conversation with a friend yesterday, I thought about all the wild stuff that we see on social media, particularly in the realm of fitness and nutrition. Influencers always posting their workouts that they claim will “get you shredded” or “grow your glutes 🍑.” Or nutritionists telling us that everything under the sun is bad for us and we should just stop eating food all together and live off of oxygen alone 🙄 (okay maybe I haven’t seen someone say something that extreme, but I feel like that’s the direction we’re going). When in reality they’re photoshopping their pictures and don’t actually do the workouts they share.

We’ve seen this type of activity a lot when it comes to politics over the years, especially in the social media/internet era where anyone can put out anything that may or may not be completely truthful.

Moral of the story here is, do your own homework. Seek knowledge and truth for yourself and only allow people to speak into your life that you know you can trust.
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“You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe — and they shudder.”
‭‭James‬ ‭2‬:‭19‬

Do Good…
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Some Monday’s I plan out what my posts will be. Some Monday’s I let things come to me. “How can I relate to people today?” I’ll ask myself. As I was reflecting on that today, a quote from 90’s kids favorite teacher came to mind. Specifically, the third task he gives.

This quote has always stuck out to me. It’s such a simple instruction. If you’re familiar with the show, you know the scene and that ironically, Topanga tries to correct Mr. Feeny saying, “Don’t you mean, do well?” To which he replies, “No, I mean do good.”

Last week was a rough week for me personally. Lots of emotion and wrestling with where God has me right now. In a season of many ups and downs, it can be a frustrating place to say the least. But God knew that already, and opened a door for me to grab lunch with a friend I hadn’t caught up with in a while who is going through a similar life change.

This friend, he didn’t have to offer to get lunch, but he did. He probably doesn’t realize how much I appreciated him suggesting that we grab lunch, and maybe he never truly will. But for reasons I won’t disclose on here, that meant a lot to me in this particular season of life and after the week I had. My point is, he made a kind gesture, that most people wouldn’t think twice about, he was just being a friend, but he did good in just “being a friend.”

All that to say, take some advice from one of the wisest of us all, and “do good” today.
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“You never know what someone is going through. Be kind. Always.”