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“Can two people walk together without agreeing on a direction?”

Amos 3:3 (NLT)

When I was a teenager, I’d make fun of speed walkers. I just thought they were the silliest looking people. Now, I am a speed walker. Walking may take twice the time to burn my caloric goals than running, but it is also twice as enjoyable. Especially when I’m with my best friend. When we walk together, the time flies by. When our walks finish, I’m not ready to stop communing.

I have found that walking has many benefits:

• Improves my mood
• reduces my stress
• helps my heart
• helps me lose weight
• helps my brain—but especially an ADHD brain

If you plug the words ”exercise” and ”ADHD” into Google, you’ll find a plethora of information on how exercise helps. Some people have even stopped their meds altogether using exercise. I can’t even imagine! No, really. I can’t. My AuDHD daughter does NOT like exercise. However, walking is something over 90% of humans can do, so until she gets involved with a sport: walking is her sport.

When we walk together, the pace is slow, but Kayla and I talk about a multitude of things. Mostly, she tells me all sorts of random animal and insect facts. She gets distracted by insects and sometimes adds several sprints—cause I guess just walking alongside me is boring—but we have to head in the same direction for it to work.

If we walk in opposite directions, we separate.

The answer to the above verse is an emphatic NO. When mankind and God walked in the garden, before we messed it all up, they were going in the same direction. Once humans went their own way, the walks ceased. Mankind and God could no longer walk together. Galatians 5:16 tells us that walking by the Spirit keeps us from satisfying our sinful desires. This makes more sense to me than ever now that I walk, because if I’m going the same direction as the Spirit of God, I’m automatically heading toward righteousness and love instead of sin and selfishness.

God doesn’t change directions—ever. So if we want to walk by him, we’ve got to go his way.

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Let’s not just talk the talk, but walk the walk and show our kids the right direction. Also, let’s get them moving to help their little brains work the best they can.

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