Depending on what you’re counting that may or may not be a big number. If it’s the annual salary of a sports star, it’s kind of insulting, if it’s the number of pennies you can balance on your forehead it is astounding.

In this instance, it is the number of steps I recorded last week at Celebrate Recovery Summit. Yeah, I think it falls into the pretty large part of the continuum.

When I am at Summit I am pretty active. I go as a volunteer and I am not able to go into the large group meetings because I am “working” in the resource tent. As much as I love Summit, I love working in the tent more. For one thing, they play the worship and speakers on a huge screen in the tent so I get the best of both.

So how do you get that many steps spending most of your day in a book store? Simple, you keep stepping. Literally, my job in the tent is to stand at the front of the line of cashiers and send people to the next open register. But like I said, I keep working my steps. I march in place while I help people. I’ve been doing this for several years now. It’s tiring, and my feet and hips hurt like crazy because of it, but it serves as a great object lesson at a recovery conference. We say it all the time in our meetings “Keep working your steps”, so I figure “Why not?”

I used to be known as the guy who was in the local paper for doing horrible things and going to jail; now I am the guy who gets his steps in at CR Summit. Pretty good trade off, if you ask me!

Sometimes you will be put in a position where it seems like you won’t be able to do the right things. However, if Your MoM can walk 58.41 miles while walking in place for four days, what could stop you when it’s your turn to…

–Rise Up!!