Run, Walk, Repeat

  I know I said this before, but the added run-walk-repeat day of exercise energizes me and makes me incredibly happy.  You really should give it a try.

  Other things that have made me happy lately are the delicious, pampering, healthy, slimming "Trim Healthy Mama" meals, snacks and desserts I have been enjoying these past few weeks.  Salmon patties, buttery baked butternut squash, meatloaf, pancakes (twice this week), grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate cake, rich chocolate fudge, smoothies...I am making myself hungry and really should go have a snack to keep my metabolism revving and burning up that belly fat.

  But before I dash off, I will mention one other happiness-giver to me:

https://store.ibethel.org/p7411/keep-your-love-on

  After reading the first chapter I sense that much transformation is ahead -- that's what I am talkin' about!  I am going to learn to be a more powerful person:

"Powerful people do not try to control other people.  They know it doesn't work and that it's not their job.  Their job is to control themselves." p. 25

  What do you think about the above statements?  

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Wrecked

While out doing the weekly shopping trip, I was wrecked by the "Sermon of the Week," (S.O.W.) from 04.29.12, which you can download at:   http://www.ibethel.org/podcast/2012/05/02/one-of-those-days .  Danny Silk is an anointed communicator.

Danny Silk

 I highly advise all of you to listen and be wrecked yourself, but I will share some of my notes with you.

Another Good Word

“Don’t turn small stuff into big stuff.”[i]

That’s a good word right there! 

What follows may not “feel” the same upon first contact…just sayin’.  However it too is a good word.

“…disciplines provide a track for us to run on when [stuff] threatens to derail us…Sometimes we must take our will by the scruff of the neck, whirl it around and force the rebel back on track.” [ii]

Without further ado, here are the disciplines, the preparations, if you like that better that reverberated within me.[iii]

v  Confession and Cleansing

v  Fall on my knees and call upon God

o    “I love the LORD because he hears and answers my prayers. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I have breath!”[iv]

o    “You bestow glory on me and lift up my head.”[v]

o    “It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”[vi]

 

v  Journal

v  Self-imposed solitude

v  Serving others

v  Worship

v  Soak in His presence and receive His love and grace

Most of the book was review for me; I guess I was paying attention the first time around.  I think believing in the never failing goodness of God and His everyday intervention in and attention to my life is what will make the difference in my spirit.  Just as I have implemented new strategies for dealing with the physical and emotional symptoms, I must recognize the spiritual side of this life change and embrace the Kingdom tools He has handed to me.  Hope, abiding faith and breakthrough are in process in my life!

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[i] “Jump Off the Hormone Swing, Pintus, p. 189

[ii] Ibid, pp. 169-170

[iii] Ibid, pp. 170-181

[iv] NLT, Psalm 116:1-2

[v] NIV, Psalm 3:3b

[vi] NLT, Isaiah 55:11

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Identity: Wearing other people's faces

Recently I have realized that part of my identity loss started much earlier than I previously thought.  Parker J. Palmer terms it "wearing someone else's face," which resonates with my spirit.