Weight Loss: From Permissible to Beneficial (Part 2)

It’s been hard keeping up with this study, so I apologize to those of you who have been diligent with it. 🙂 “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to spend the next forty years of my life learning this lesson.” (pg 132) And things have hit the fan so to speak during the last 3 weeks and things are beginning to turn around. I’ve lost about 5 pounds and I can tell some of my eating habits have changed. This is a slow process, and I guess in the back of my mind I keep thinking, “Come on! You should be seeing results!” and I have been disappointed. (Which leads to more eating…)

In this section of the study, Lysa asked: If you could capture your woundedness in a photo, what would the image be? Here’s mine.

Weight Loss: From Permissible to Beneficial

For those of you who may have just joined my blog, I have been working through the Bible study Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst. If you look up in the heading, you’ll find the back lessons under Adult Bible Studies. I’ve been watching the videos and working through the study book. My friend, Audria, over at The Well has completed the study as well. Please take a moment to click over to her page and read her results and life changes. She has been much more diligent than me. I’m afraid I have dragged my feet quite a bit. And I think I know why.

I’ll admit it. I have a food addiction. I’ve had the mindset that all food is permissible, so eat it all. But that’s not Biblical. Yes, everything is permissible, but not everything is BENEFICIAL. So my battle is not with food, it isn’t with the scale, it isn’t with the skinny jeans…

My battle is in my head. And my mind is supposed to be transformed and renewed! But let me tell you, it is a HARD process!! It is a SLOW process!!

Made to Crave: Introduction

I’m sitting here watching the men’s 4×400 relay as the Bahaman team beats out the US for the gold medal. These men have trained for YEARS for this moment. They crave the medal so much they can feel its heaviness around their necks.

I don’t know if I can relate to the craving for an Olympic medal. I crave chocolate. Specifically peanut butter cups, on a regular basis. I crave to be a good wife and mom, so I read books and blogs almost daily. I crave to homeschool my kids and prove all the nay-sayers wrong. That’s motivating.

But I don’t crave the grueling training and exercise that develops a healthy body.

Salvation Message on a Napkin

You never know where you might be when God calls on you to present the gospel. Scripture tells us to be ready and willing at all times to spread the good news. Here is a simple way to illustrate the gospel message using a pen and a napkin.

Materials: Pen, blank napkin

If I Could Be a Young Mom Again…

I needed this reminder today. I thought I would share it with you, Readers. This article is by Mary May Larmoyeux. Enjoy!  ~ F.F.S.

As I peeked in on our sleeping 2-year-old grandson recently, I thought, You look just like your daddy did! It seems like yesterday when our grown son was the toddler; I was the young mom checking on him during a mid-day nap. Sometimes I wonder, What would I do differently if I could somehow be that young mother again … knowing what has taken me decades to learn?

May I Encourage You? – YOU were worth it all

Many times this passage is taught that you and I are like the man and that we are to consider heaven as the priceless treasure:

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Matthew 13:44

But what if God was the man.

May I Encourage You? Peaceful Rest

When was the last time you held a sleeping child? Or a sleeping animal? Isn’t it a beautiful thing? Think about it. It’s amazing. There is no stress, no pride, no arrogance. That child trusts the integrity of the person holding him 100%. There is complete trust or else there would be no sleep.

When I go to a new place, or stay in a hotel, my sleep is disturbed. It’s a strange place. I don’t trust my surroundings. My rest is not peaceful.

May I Encourage You? – Active Comfort

Throughout the scriptures whenever a word is used three times, it usually means, “Stop, Reader, and pay attention!” But I have found a passage where a word is used not three times, or six times, but TEN times throughout five verses of scripture. This causes me to screech to a halt and pay attention to what God is trying to tell me.

Please read and look for the word comfort.

What’s On Your Reading List?

Ok.

I have a confession to make.

I have a weakness for books. I love to read. I love to go to bookstores. I love to buy books. I love to check books out from the library. I like to look at books.

I don’t like to smell books. That’s my husband’s strange thing that he does…

May I Encourage You? – Stick it Out and Pass the Test

Tonight is the last night of Vacation Bible School. VBS is fun, exciting, and exhausting. Lives are changed. God moves. It’s wonderful, but service to others can become draining.

And there are so many things in life that are draining. Trials can just suck the life out of people.

But we Christians are called to persevere.