Today we went back down to the Secret Field with the boys and the Vicarage Hound, the tennis ball and the floppy frisbee ring. And I vowed to be a little less languid today, so I walked around the field in a rather more energetic fashion than I did yesterday.
Yesterday when we returned I checked out the pedometer app on my phone. And from a frankly embarrassing daily average, I had raised my game significantly by taking just a couple of laps. So today I increased my field laps and upped my step count. A better number. And now, of course, I will have to do another extra lap on tomorrow’s Secret Field trip so I can count more. Who knows how many daily steps I’ll be doing be doing by the end of the lockdown? I’m not sure I’ll match Martin Lewis, but perhaps I’ll get a taste for increasing pedometer scores.
There are so many numbers about at the moment – graphs and totals are filling my timelines, some people are counting days since the lockdown and calculating days to go until some sort of loosening of restrictions. Numbering something else feels like a good distraction: 4426 yesterday, 5062 today.
Right numbering is always important, but perhaps even more so in this season. I’m praying that I’ll learn how to number my strange days right and gain a heart of wisdom.
![[Text over photo of cut tree trunk] So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.](https://thevicarswife.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/psalm90v12.jpeg?w=500)
The Vicar's Wife 
That Martin Lewis is very annoying! But it’s true that getting a Futbot has made me much more conscious of the number of steps I am taking each day, and trying to do more. Also Active Minutes – moderate exercuse fir at least 10 minutes at a time. You get a star uf you do 30 mins or more a day!