Well, I made it through yesterday! Praise God! I didn’t snap
on anyone or give them any mean eyes (well, not any more frequently than I give
mean eyes!). This morning, I woke up feeling alright, having just directly
finished dreaming about my coworkers (again!). This time, my boss was referring
to the new guy as his login instead of his name and we were all joking him
about it – oh it will take her awhile to remember your name, and you know
typical hazing of the newbie. Considering I’ve been talking about anti-hazing every
day since Monday, how interesting is it that I dreamed about it occurring at
work? Okay, um, I lied to you because I just remembered that I
did snap on someone yesterday. But in my defense, I wasted my lunch driving to
Best Buy for NO REASON and while I understood that it wasn’t the Geek Squad rep’s
fault entirely, I felt the need to rage against their corporate machine who
needs to incorporate a policy regarding how they handle replacement devices for
VZW. Because of them, I had only just finished eating my mashed potatoes before
my 3pm conference call. No Bueno L
Now you may already know that I’m in a weight loss challenge
with my sorority and it’s been a great motivator in helping me to track what I’m
eating and how I’m exercising. I have lost a total of 12 lbs, and while some of
my success is due to me dropping some of
the bad eating habits (Bad Carbs! Including carbonated drinks), a lot was due
to all the walking that I had to do while I was car-less. I also was eating
less fast food because I would have had to walk further to get to any fast food
places. Now that I’m back in a car (PTL!!!), I have to make sure that I keep up
with my exercise and my good eating choices. Oh but yesterday…. I’m always susceptible,
and I think I was already planning on having at least 1 cheat item yesterday, but
the debacle at Best Buy probably led into the carb party that I ended up
having, which included cornbread, mashed potatoes, a ciabatta bun, and 3 servings
of diet coke! Oh, the horror!
So, today on Day 2, my body is still trying to digest the
crap from yesterday and I feel bloated. L
So, how do I get myself back on track? How do I not continue
on this path of self-destruction by carb? When you fall down, you have to get
back up. Today is a new day and I can always start fresh with a clementine,
because that’s what I eat almost every morning. I can also go and buy some more
string cheese because it’s my new favorite snack. I can make better choices
today than I did yesterday and not let biology get the best of me. The concept
of starting fresh every morning is not only applicable to “dieting”, but it’s
also applicable to walking with the Lord. Every day we wake up with fresh grace
and mercy on our proverbial plates and God says good morning wonderful children
and He sees us as good and blameless. Then we take a breath and we’re back to
sinning again (LOL), but the point is we start off brand new and on track.
Regardless of the mess we got ourselves into yesterday, the strife we caused,
the negative words we said or thought in our heads, today is brand new and we
can make better choices and maybe sin just a little less (maybe!).
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Maybe I can smile more today…
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Maybe I can pray for someone today, not because they
asked me to, but because I’m led to..
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Maybe I can be less distracted and hear God’s
voice today…
The possibilities are endless! And let’s get some Word in shall we?
Psalm 103:1-5; 8-14
“Praise the Lord, O my
soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all His benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and
compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is
renewed like the eagle’s… The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to
anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will He harbor His
anger forever; He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according
to our iniquities. For as high as the heaves are above the earth, so great is
His love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far
has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his
children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for He knows how we
are formed, He remembers that we are dust…”
Lamentations 3:19-26
“I remember my
affliction and my wandering…I well remember them… Yet this I call to mind and
therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness. I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait
for Him.’ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks
him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”
Videos!
As I wrote this post, here are the songs that came to mind,
in the order they came
Michael Bublé – Feelin' Good (because I love Michael Bublé
and I’m not here for JHud’s version or her Weight Watchers commercial!)
New Season - Israel Houghton ft. Martha Munizzi
Great is Thy Faithfulness – Vickie Winans (if only I had a video of my pastor singing it... but Vickie will have to do! Singing starts at 2:45 by the way!)
Here’s to a good start on a brand new day!
-BlueLady
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