How True is THIS?

However often we think we have broken the rebellious self we shall still find it alive.  (C.S. Lewis)

How true is THAT?!?

Checking in today to record fresh determination to

keep the "rebellious self" in check.

No Excuses/No Regrets

  

 "Don't let today's excuses become tomorrow's regrets." 

(Steven Furtick)

I'm pretty good at making excuses.  
Oh, not outloud, spoken ones. 

 Just quiet, inner ones.

They're comforting somehow - intially.

But the comfort is short-lived.  

Today I will be more cognizant 

of this paralyzing habit of excuse-making.

I will beat my excuses to their punch.

Day lilies are called that because their bloom lasts only for one day...

Today is the only "bloom" I'm given.

I will NOT let today's excuses become tomorrow's regrets!

Manage Your Mind

If you’re serious about defeating temptation you must manage your mind. 

 (David Chrzan on Twitter)

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.  Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure and lovely, and admirable.  think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.  Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me--everything you heard from me and saw me doing.  Then the God of peace will be with you."

(Apostle Paul, Philippians 4:8-9)

Walk More

Walking was part of our day yesterday....

Around,

 past,

and through an older neighbrohood's  House and Garden Walk.

I just read this quote with no credit given: 

"The sedentary lifestyle is the smoking of our generation"

It is SO easy for me to drift into a sedentary lifestyle.  

I need to keep pushing myself to be more active.

Anyone else? 

His Part/My Part

6/10/2013
Patience is key to acheiving our goals. It involves the act of placing our concern in the hands of our Lord, and leaving it there.

Just as it appeared in Motivation to Live Well in my sidebar today...spelling error and all.  It has particular significance to me this evening.  My retreat time last week was an experience in "placing (my) concern in the hands of the Lord, and leaving it there".

Both the scale and blood pressure cuff testify to the faithfulness of God.  I have placed my concerns about weight and general health in His hands while I do my part to eat and act in a healthy way.
 

 

Worth a Few Pounds

 My recent time spent at the Abbey of Gethsemani

were worth a few pounds!
(Giving them up, that is.)

 Hiking, simple meals and drinking lots of water

 played a role in helping me drop a few (pounds).  

I returned home rested and feeling quite healthy!

What I Didn'T Say

Looking for individuals who want to take on the wellness challenge and live a healthier life. With 100% money back quarentee and the potential to make more money than you spend on the products who wouldn't want to listen to more information?
Send me a message with your time zone and what evening works best. I will line you up with a overview to learn more. - no one can go wrong, get more information from me.

Thus read the message in a facebook group I participate in (spelling error and all).  I wanted to respond and say that  I HAVE taken the wellness challenge and AM living a healthier life.  I wanted to tell this person that I don't want/need "products" and that I don't want to listen to more information.  I wanted to say that I don't need "money back quarentee (her spelling).

Yep!  That's what I wanted to comment..  But I didn't!  Instead, I'm saying it here.

Friday Evening Reflections

shaking off sluggishness & complacency
living with awareness of health and wholeness
maximizing the "now" with enthusiasm and attention
thanking my Creator, the Giver and Sustainer of life
"pressing on" (Philippians 3:14)

139#

"Post your goals where you’ll see them often, 

along with notes of inspiration. Reminders are a good thing."

(from today's Motivation to Live Well in my sidebar)

Duh!

That's just about the only reason I continue this blog!

It's not so much for you (if there even ARE any "yous" out there)

as it is for me.

Goal:  139#

Note of Inspiration:  139#

Reminder:  139#    

No Vacation

This was my entree at Caffe REL - a French bistro style restaurant in Franklin, North Carolina.  Here I may have enjoyed the best salmon I've ever tasted!  It was served with  red currant sauce and chutney and delicious stir fried vegetables.

 I was too full to order a 3 tiered, 7" high chocolate cake "slab",

as some call the enormous piece of dessert.

While on vacation, we enjoy a fine meal daily and eat fruit either 

within 5 hours before or after the meal to continue the pattern of

Fast-5 eating that we enjoy at home.  

I love this lifestyle.  It is flexible, fulfilling, and fits well into vacation living.

Financially, it is pleasing also.  It frees up money spent on other meals to "splurge"

at least once a day on a great meal and good atmosphere.

No vacation from Fast-5 for me.

New Mercies

New mercies.
Renewed perspective.
Refreshed spirit.
Joyful determination.
Fresh wind.
Fresh fire.
HIS strength.
MY commitment.

"One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion."  (Orrin Woodward)

Tattooed on my Eyelids

"Feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you"

 (Prov 308-9). Excess can be deadly to the soul.

 (Nancy Leigh DeMoss' tweet)

Oh, my.  I should have this tattooed on my EYELIDS!
I looked it up in several translations.
Reading the full verses  is interesting.
I like Nancy's summary--Excess CAN be deadly to the soul.

Exercise - Nature's Way

 Working out(side)

 ...the way God intended it!

We've done our share of it the last couple of days.

I go to bed tired and sore

but fully aware of having used my entire body in a productive way!

Spring in my Walk

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

OK.  This quote that I lifted off of someone's facebook entry is just what I needed to get me going this spring.  I will quit using the cold weather as my excuse and walk.   Probably not fast at first. Just regularly and farther than to the post office and back.  I COULD wish for a more picturesque  route around my house, but that won't stop me from exercising an "eye for nature" and "vast curiosity"!

 

another word for "maintenance"

I'm on the hunt for it -- another word for THIS one.

Something positive.

Something life-affirming.

Something friendly.

Something energetic.

What do YOU suggest?