How I'm Doing

Slow but steady.

It's been an insanely busy few weeks. I usually am pretty good at not overloading my calendar, but add in a few unexpected doctor's appointments, a holiday, and just life...I'm tired.

BUT, God's unsurpassing peace has faithfully been quieting my heart, I've been exercising and sticking to my food goals, the important things have gotten done (though my house is in need of a serious cleaning), I survived my first mammogram and heard the word "benign" (Thank you, Jesus), I just got 2 really good and long nights of sleep, and I lost 8 lbs.!

Some tidbits from MADE TO CRAVE by Lysa TerKeurst that have been resonating with me:

Define your week by obedience, not by a number on a scale. The scale does help measure our progress, but it can't tell us everything.

We will hear careless comments along the way that will threaten to crush our spirit. We can literally say to a comment: "Are you true? Are you beneficial? Are you necessary?"

We are never supposed to get the satisfaction our souls desire from our looks.

How many times have I claimed to be a woman of faith but rarely lived a life requiring faith, God's faith, to see something through?

Our flesh buys right into Satan's lie that it's not fair for things to be withheld from us. So we bite into the forbidden fruit and allow Satan to write "shame" across our heart...having a pity party was a clue I was relying on my own strength, a strength that has failed me before and would fail me again...compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation [food, or otherwise] allows promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment. [God's power at work within me. His power made perfect in my weakness, a reality.]

Don't mistake skinny for healthy...being little doesn't make a person any more happy or faithful or joyful. The struggles are the same (or at least similar), just in a different size package.


Onward. :-)