What if I Let God Down?

Thought of the Day: I wept as I realized this would be one of the most significant spiritual journeys of my life. A spiritual journey that would yield great physical benefits.

With any battle we face the fear of failure. But what is worse, is when others are counting on you. Failure doubled with Guilt! Your family and friends know the struggle you are facing, see you fight it everyday. But what about God? I am making this statement very public myself. I am posting this trial on the Internet with hopes that it will hold me accountable.  I am coping this from the book "And why in heavens would I want to add spiritual guilt on top of my physical guilt? Why would I risk the shame of making God look bad too?"

Guilt always comes when I make poor choices and I could see the results of those choices on the scale. I have to be honest with this. When I am not at peace physically, I am not at peace spiritually. How can we think that one aspect of life doesn't affect another part of our life?

To the thought of letting God down. How can we let HIM down when we weren't ever holding HIM up? This shouldn't even be a thought in our heads. Isaiah 41:10 Says Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Unsettled

I received my Made to Crave (by Lysa TerKeurst) book from Amazon.com. It's a 60 day devotional and I would like to share my thoughts and feelings while reading these short passages.

Thought for the Day: Unsettle me in the best kind of way. For when I allow your touch to reach the deepest parts of me - dark and dingy and hidden away too long - suddenly, a fresh wind of life twists and twirls and dances through my soul.

After reading today's devotional I found myself thinking of the game Jenga.  I compare it to my life. If you have ever played this game you know how towards the end, the tower gets in quite a precarious situation. The bottom has lots of spaces in it and with the slightest touch it will fall over.

I feel it's like my life because I know I have spread myself too thin and there are lots of open spaces in my foundation.  I have all these horrible habits in life; eating, discipline, self-control (which I am now seeing mirrored in my daughter). I know that continuing through this devotional I will find a way to fill in those empty spaces with Godly "blocks".

Well here is to reinventing my self!

Last Chance Workout & 3 day diet

I decided to up my game this week and switch to a Jillian Michael's workout. No more easy Weight Watchers 20 min (warm-up) workout.  I about nearly died! I have always said that no one can work me out like Jillian. Boy am I out of shape! Well, that will be true NO LONGER!

She has the plan set up for 6 wks. The workouts are broken down as the following;

• Warm-up (5 mins)
• Last Chance Workout (25 mins) - Blast fat and beat the scale with Jillian's signature circuits that alternate short burst of cardio with strength intervals.
• Upper Body Sculpt (10 mins) - Super-sculpt your arms, shoulders, chest, and core with Jillian's favorite moves that slash mega-calories and carve lean muscle.
• Lower Body Tone (10 mins) - Jillian revs up the fat burn with dynamic Last Chance lower body combination that blasts the legs, glutes, hips, and waistline.
• Cool Down (5 mins)

The 1-2 weeks you alternate between the Last Chance work out and the Upper & Lower body workouts.  Obvious Warm-up and Cool Down included.  Monday-Saturday

Weeks 3-4 will have Last Chance workout everyday with an additional Sculpt or Tone alternating.  Again Monday-Saturday

And the final 5-6 weeks has them all! I foresee getting up very early these weeks. Monday-Saturday.  

I am in the middle of at 3 day diet. I never thought I would see myself trying something like this but I am glad I have.  Its not a starvation diet because you are eating 3 meals everyday. Breakfast and Lunch are pretty small meals but I have all I can do to eat everything for Supper. But no problem with the 1/2 cup of Vanilla Ice Cream!! Check it out for yourself. The following is the link to the web page.

http://3daydiets.net/

~JL