Wow, life is picking up speed again. And I’m fighting it. 
God really used my being sick for so long to slow me down. The lesson I learned was big, and basic.
This moment. Right now. It’s all I have to work with. Living in my head, spinning my wheels, stressing over the weight of things not yet done, and appointments not yet met. These things are pseudo-life. I will never be effective as a person (a wife, a mother, a friend) if I continue to live there.
When I am living in that space I listen less. I don’t make eye contact. I hurry, scurry and worry. I have all the appearance of process, with none of the actual positive change.
In the world of my weight loss, I, and a small group of women, have started to meet online and the community is good. God has placed me in a good place. He has given me a few special friends who actively support my efforts and I feel so blessed.
I am using SparkPeople to track my food and exercise. I am reading First Place 4 Health with a good friend. I am using the 0-5 (hunger and fullness scale) to guide my eating. I am doing an AM/PM Stretch DVD, and adding walking to my schedule. I am continuing with my PT Exercise and will be adding some low-key strength training to my week as well.
Slow and steady. Determined perseverance. God is working on me, and it’s good.
Christina 10:12 am on March 6, 2009 Permalink |
Wow! Talk about being transformed!!! As you list all the lessons you’ve been learning and all the ways you are plugging into being intentional about weight loss and balanced spiritually, physically and emotionally…I’m blown away! And I’m inspired! PRAISE GOD!!!! He is certainly doing a good work in you!
Keep on keeping on…slow and STEADY! No looking back! Keep your eyes fixed on the goal~a dearer, sweeter, deeper relationship with Jesus! What joy and peace will flow as we are obedient! We will truly be changed from the inside out!
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Phil. 3:14-15