Day 9 Is it sinking in?

Good morning to all my Brothers and Sisters in Christ!

Man, I feel good this morning!  Today is going to be a great day!  Hope yours is also!

Well, that's the question.  Is it sinking in?  Yes!  I'm on my way to making oh so healthy and loving habits and rewiring my brain!  I'm thinking about what I eat and serve.  I'm thinking about what I say and feel.  And I KNOW that without God I am nothing!!!!!

What a relief!  To finally understand my place!  I'm here on this planet to love, be loving, to share His love with others, to live in His love for me!  I can be mindful, but don't have to figure everything out. I can rest spiritually in Him and know that everything will be great!  God has given me a new perspective.  I now can tell the difference between wants and needs. 

I, like many of you, am on a very tight budget.  And I haven't done that well with sticking with it here lately.  But now that I am in a new state of mind, I realize that what I have been finding importance in, is really not that important!  I see what I have!  My needs and my families needs are met!  I really don't need anything!  And that may seem like I'm just going through this new Christian high, but I'm serious, I have everything!  When you get to that point, life is peaceful.  I feel like I can pursue all the things God has placed on my heart and not worry about if I'll get paid! 

I realize now that parties are more then food traps!  They are wonderful moments of laughs, sharing, stories, etc.  Holidays are more than "Oh the food is so good, I have to have it!"  "So and so is going to be way prettier and thinner than me and will talk about me behind my back!"  It's so much more.  Boy, I was really insecure!  Those were my actual thought for a long time!  Also, how selfish!  To only think about "me!"  I sure did miss a lot.

With God, I am whole!  With God, there is no need to have one up on anyone.  With God, there is no reason to hide, to feel inferior, to worry about what others think!  With God, we are safe, satisfied, alive, living! 

Yes Virginia!  There is a better life out there and it starts and ends with God! 

I now realize that losing weight and being healthy is more than the calories we eat, the exercises we do, the mistakes we make.  It's about being really satisfied!  Which can come from only one place ~ THANK YOU JESUS!

So I'm following the guidelines that I posted a few days ago.  I'm making it simple.  I'm going to be responsible.  And you can too!

God loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that we my have everlasting life!  Man, I need to read that again!!  He loves me, all my faults and thoughts and failures!  He's looking at my future not my behind, I mean past!!  He can see what I can't see, so I will trust Him and have faith!

Today is going to be a great day!  Love yourself and let God's love fill you and flow through you to others!

Blessings to you my friends!
Becca