WHY do I love the Lord?

I was just reading this question on another site and I decided that I would just put that question here.

I really don't have enough space or time to go into the depths of why I love the Lord but I will try because I do tell Him often that I love Him.

1.I love him because at a time when I did not believe in Him he still loved me, The robber could have very easily shot me but he did not. I believe the Lord had His protection hand on me even then -5 yrs. before I got saved.

2. I love Him becasue He has given to me peace like I have never known, and contentment that has never been mine, He gave me a father that I can believe in and trust as compared to my earthly father that treated me so horribly.

3. He took away my shame and bore it himself on the cross

4.He took away an eternity in hell that was waiting for me and gave me an eternity in heaven.

5. He loved me even before I was born.

6. He sacrificed Himself for me

So much more -

On a hill far awy
stood an old rugged cross
the emblem of suffering and shame

and that old cross was where my Jesus hung because He loved me so much He was willing to give His life so that He could bye my freedom, so that He could ransom me by the shedding of His blood.

And that is why I love God, because of all that He has done for me.

OH Praise God
Holy Holy
Praise the Lord

Praise God, song, sick,diet

Good morning
and isn't the Lord wonderful to His children?

Here is one of my favorite songs

CANT CROSS THE BLOOD LINE

WHEN IT SEEMS MY SPIRIT IS LOW
AND IT'S SEEMS I CAN HARDLY GO
BUT STILL I SEE VICTORY
AND SOMETIMES I'M WALKING BY FAITH
CAN'T SEE WHAT LIES BEFORE ME
STILL I SEE VICTORY

CHORUS---
I JUST GOT TO TELL YOU SATAN
YOU CAN'T CROSS THE BLOOD LINE
BECAUSE I'M COVERED BY THE BLOOD
YOU MAY SNEAR
AND YOU MAY FIGHT
BUT YOU'RE GONNA
LOSE THIS BATTLE TONIGHT
REMEMBER ----CAN'T CROSS THE BLOOD LINE

WHEN IT SEEMS THIS BATTLE GETS HOT
SEEMS LIKE WE'RE FIGHTING A LOT
OH I REMEMBER
I STAND UPON A ROCK
AND SATAN IF I WERE YOU
I'D TURN AROUND AND GIVE UP TOO
BECAUSE
I KNOW YOU'RE BOUND TO LOSE

CHORUS AGAIN

See isn't that a pretty song? I just love the words to that song. And it is so true Satan can't cross the blood line. That is such a comforting thought and keeps me praising God all day long.

I am not feeling very good, actually been a little off since Wed. My allergies and all of that, it is that time of year for ragweed and it rained a day or so ago and I also have allergy to mold and mildew and every time it rains, within the next day or so I start having some allergy problems. It feels somewhat like a cold with coughing and drainage but I have had this before and so I know the symptoms. ack and poor me. lol

The sad thing is I don't think I ever get too sick to eat- I am trying to eat every thing in my kitchen I even made some cookies yesterday. THey are very healthy but still high in calories. They are oatmeal with raisons and coconut and some chocolate chips and about 5 Tspoons of butterscotch chips . My own invention but so good and so satisfying and I estimate 100 plus calories per cookie.

OH well and on to the next thing I am going to try. I may fail miserably at dieting but I get an A+ for tenacity and perseverance. lolololol
My dd -Jeni- bought two diet cook books to check out and one of them is the south beach diet cook book and the other is -get this-Cooking with Joy YES that is the name of the book and the name of my blog is Joy's World. Coincidence-I think not-it is a sign from my good Karma that I send out daily.
I always say bad karma will come back, sneak up on you and bite you in the rear and good karma will bring happiness and a diet that works. hahahahah Not really but it did grab my attention.

My weight this morning is 214.8
As you can see my weight is not on the first line, it is like one of those shameful bits of news that is usually post on page 12 in very very tiny print. But perhaps bringing Joy's diet cookbook into Joy's world will be the turning point in my weight loss journey. One can hope, actually one should always hope, and have faith.

My heavenly Father
You Lord, are my God and I am blessed for You have taken away my sin and my shame, you have taken away an eternity of horror and agony and You have given to me an eternity in the presence of you and your son, Jesus Christ who I adore.

You Lord are my strength and my rock, you are my high tower and the one that I run to in my times of need.

Lord I know that I can bring my family and friends to you and you are faithful to not only listen to my pleas but also to bless the ones that I call out . I bring to you my Lord
FF-who has bladder cancer,
and P.'s former pastor, who is frail and needing a touch from you
and Bob. Mo. who is going to see a heart specialist
and me sick, sick, me
and dh, who is so hungry to be in your presence
and Mom who finds no good in me
and sis. who lacks wisdom in her about so many things
and Dad that he has asked for your forgieness for the horrible things that he has done
all of my brothers that they would see you clearly before it is too late
my children and their faily that they would open their hearts and allow you to indwell within their heart and spirit
My preacher for spiritual blessings
my church for revival
Pgoude and sis. goude that they will just be blessed for they are dear people
Pand D that they would be blessed.

I love you
I worship you
I praise you
You are my strength
I am so glad that you are my life
You are the one that I call to when I have problems
Thank you my Father
Amen

213.6-Thursday

Good Morning

and Oh my Father, I thank you for this day, I thank you Lord because "this is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it, this is the day this is the day, that the Lord has made." This day Lord that you gave to me so that I can have one more day to worship you, one more day to praise you, one more day to have a chance to let others know that there is a wonderful God that loves them, a wonderful God that sent His son to die a criminals death for them.

I thank you Lord for my companion, my husband that you gave to me so many years ago. Please dear Lord lift him up and bless him. He loves you Lord and he desires to worship you. Please keep your hands upon him and keep him from harm.
Relsie and Morrell Lord such wonderful and giving people bless them Father and ease the burdens of there body-Your word says that Your son paid the price so we would not have to and the stripes that were laid on His back was done so that we would not have to suffer.
I thank You for Your word and the wonderful promises that You made to us and we know that Your word will not come back to You void and empty. Your word Lord is true and You are faithful to keep Your word.
I pray Lord that you would touch and bless those that I name out here according to Your word and Your will and Your wisdom
Preacher
Mom and Dad
sister and BIL
all of my brothers and their families
J. and E.
P and D
C and D
Me and dh
dd and son in law
son and his family
our church and the revival we are going to have.

God you are good and wonderful and I love You and I worship You and I praise You
These things I ask in the name of Jesus Christ
amen

Letter I e-mailed to a former pastor's wife

I had called her early this morning and she was already gone, she is a very busy lady and the duties of a preachers wife are many. I just told her answering machine that I would e-mail her.

I wonder why so many people think it is their job in life to bring other people down?

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Good morning Sister H********
THis is the reason why I called you at such a horribly early hour.

I love God and I love to talk about God and I love to go to singings and revivals-anywhere that God is being talked about or praised or loved, Buck and I want to be there.

We have been saved over 2 years, and I have been told repeatedly that I need to stop doing that cause I would get burned out and get tired of hearing about God all the time.( Mostly my sister tells me that, but I have been questioned about it by others also). (Her husband has also told us that just because we go to church al the time does not make us a Christian)Well we have not gotten tired of it and we still go as much as we can.

It is not like I am going to the grocery store, or going to do a load of laundry I am going ot worship. How does people get burned out on worshipping? I have a lump in my throat because I love to worship and I hear from others that I am going to get tired of doing it. I am frightened that I am going to come to the point that I am going to say "lets not go today I just want ot stay home"

The joy and excitement that I feel is what keeps me wanting to go to church, what do I do if it stops. I will lose everything. I will be so lost literally I will be lost, forever.

How do I keep God as the main focus of my life, how do I continue to enjoy worshipping.

ON the other hand, why do I listen to what others tell me, I know that I enjoy God being the bright and shining light in my life. I know that waking up to His love is better than waking up to what I had before. I know that having Him to lean on is so much better than trying to lean on my own strength. I know that 10 of His words of love is better than 10 thousand words from those that try to bring me down.

Thank you for being there for me when I am having a moment of childishness. And
Praise God for His love and what a wonderful feeling it is to have His arms reach around us, and lift us up. His grace is sufficient and "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me"

How much better can it get than that.

God bless you
Love you both.

Good Morning

The time now is 6:30 AM and I have been up since 5:00AM I heard the alarm and my dh turned it off and then he curled up beside me and we jus tlaid there for a few minutes. I hurt my knee yesterday and was so hoping it would be better this morning and I could do my exercising, but nope that did not work out that way. Also I woke with my allergies acting up and I have a sore throat because of the drainage and just feeling bad. PLUS I have been sneezing and each time I sneeze it feels like someone scraps my tonsils with sandpapaer.

ENOUGH COMPLAINING because I am so blessed,
1. I woke this morning with a healthy body and an active mind
2.I got out of bed aware of where I was and
3. I praised the Lord of my life as I began my day

The purpose of writing so early is because I had a dream. Now I am a believer in God using things -dreams and visions-anything He can to get message to His children. I am not fanatical about it, just sometimes I do think God will use a dream to tell people something that he thinks they should understand more clearly. Here is my dream

I dreamed that the world was on the edge of ending because a huge meteor was coming toward Earth and nothing couldbe done. I was not frightened at all I knew at my death I would be in the physical prescence of the Lord.Chaos was everywhere, people were looting and stealing things that did not make sense, like they were stealing big screen tvs. Now everyone would be dead in 24 hours but they were stealing tvs.

I do not know where dh or dd or her husband was but I was carrying baby everywhere. I was walking around praying for frightened people. I was telling them to no be afraid that God loved them and they needed to put their trust and hope in Him. I was speaking in tongues and praising God. I told them it did not matter how long they were saved and it did not matter the reason they got saved. What mattered was that they believe in their hearts that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for them, and that He rose again on the 3rd day.

I think that God was telling me that time is running out for a lot of people and that a lot of people were going to Hell and I need to get out there in anyway I can and let them know that there is a loving God full of forgiveness and grace. That He is faithful to forgive us when we turn our eyes to Him and accept this wonderful gift of love and hope.

I have two children that are not saved and I pray my Lord that You look at them and open their hearts to You. You are the Master and You can turn them around. I put them into Your loving hands. Trusting in You always, Father, In the name of Jesus
Amen

214.2-Tuesday

I knew i would gain some but did not expect it to be that much, I was ultra thirsty yesterday and I drank and drank tea and water and the same way today.

When I was at the dr. office last week I told the nurseI was eating diet meals and she told me to watch the salt content. Sure enough most diet meals that I eat have almost 1/2 of my daily allotment of salt. No wonder IO am so thirsty on days when I eat a diet meal.

So here goes another change I am going to have to make in my daily menu. dIt is ok I suppose I can grill vegetables and that will not be a hardship cause I really like grilled okra and squash etc.

Part of my new way of dieting is I am going to wwrite down everything I eat and the calories. I am not going to promise I will do this everyday because frankly I don't have time every day but I wil try to do it at least 3 to 4 times a week. (More often if I have the time)

I pray to my Lord
Dear God above
with love and praise I come before you, in thanks for allowing me into the throne room of heaven. How wonderful you are to allow me to come into your prescence. I am humbled by your grace and goodness that you offer to me.

I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart
I will enterHis courts with praise
I will say this is the day that the Lord has made
I will rejoice for He has made me glad.

I pray oh Lord that you will give me strength to accomplish the goals that I have set for myself, I ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ
Amen.

My sinuses have been giving me problems today and I feel bad so not as many steps on pedometer -4542- and certainly way too many calories. BUt I look forward to tomorrow and the new outlook that God has led me to.

He is wonderful and so worthy of my praise.

God bless you all

My own numbered guides to lose weight

1. I admit that I am weak when it comes to eating certain foods.

2. I know that my God can do all things and He can guide me and lead me to eat in a way that will glorify Him.

3. I determine at this time that I will give God control over me and my eating.

4. I determine that before I eat I will turn it over to the Lord to lead me and guide me to eat according to my body's needs, and I will give Him thanks and praise for the food that He gives to me

5. I will ask God to allow me to see if I need to eat because of my sustanence or because of emotional hunger.

6. I will find a spiritual companion to talk with about my physical and emotional hungers.

7. Ask God to forgive me for the wrongs that I have done to myself as well as to others.

8. I will thank God for all the food He gives to me, not just the actual food that I eat but also the spiritual food that I eat daily at the Lords table, through prayer and through the bible and through hearing the word being preached.

Oh My Lord Help me

My Father-
I need You
I worship you and I need you to guide and direct my path daily. As I get out of bed Lord I ask your blessing on my day,

My family, God you see how they speak of me and to me. You hear the way my heart weeps with sorrow at the way that they only say negative things.

I pray my Lord with all that is in me that you would touch and bless them and their lives, that they would see, my Father, that I want their love and their approval. But if they do not change their ways, I will not turn from you, I will not take my eyes from your glory, I will not stop worshipping you, for You are MY GOD.

I know God that you are faithful, the bible tells me that you are, I know that you carry me on wings of eagles, the bible tells me, I know that your peace is with me, for your word, OH GOD, You lovely word tells me that your peace is with me.

My God hold me up as I try to lose weight, direct my hands and my heart and my mind that I will choose to keep this earthly temple sanctified for you.

So prepare me
to be a sanctuary
pure and Holy
tried and true

With thanksgiving
I'll be a living
sanctuary
for you.

Guide me Father to prepare a set of steps that will in time guide me to eat and exercise in a manner that will bring health to this temple made of flesh.

I do all things with you in mind
I hunger to please you
I ache to be in your prescence
I joyfully praise you
In awe I worship you
I glorify your name
In patience I await your coming

Amen

212.0-Monday

I am a Christian and that means that honesty is a way of life. I would have loved to put down 210 or even lower but that would not have been the truth-sigh,sob, weep.

11178 pedometer steps,
1775 calories for today

exercise was 55 minutes arobics and walking while I talked on the phone.

I am just such a weak noodle when it comes to denying myself the foods that I want.

I have not posted lately cause I have been a very busy. I kept baby all day long every day last week and baby and dd spent the night 3 times . And we had revivals all last week so I would watch baby, do laundry, straighten, cook sweep go to revivalsa, come home do a few surveys and go to bed. And then do the same thing again the next day. On the days that baby spent the night it was just to difficult to do exercise while he wanted to be held when he first wakes up.

And now let me tell you about a very unforgettable thing that happened to dh and me.

On Saturday night we went to a singing in a small country town near here. We started home about 9 pm and the moon was not quite full but it was bright and pretty up in the sky. I was looking at the moon and thanking God for the wonderful singing and I noticed that above the moon there were a few clouds that looked like a face. As I watched the face became more formed and I recognized the face of Jesus Christ. The face stayed formed about 30 to 40 seconds and then the face shifted and the clouds changed and in the same place the clouds came togeather once again and formed the same face again. I told dh that Jesus was watching us. I explained what I was looking at and he pulled the car over and he got out and he saw it too. The face stayed there abouve the moon maybe 10 more seconds and then it shifted again. And as we watched the face came togeather again and it was such a spiritual moment. If it only happened once I would have shrugged it off even twice I would have said coincidence but it happened 3 times plus dh saw it twice. I was not frightened or anything except totally praising God that He took the time to show me that I am important to Him and that He makes the clouds obey Him.


I will rejoice in His love for me and I wil worship Him because He tells me daily that I am His child.

Yesterday dh and I went to one church and watched Carla and Redemtion sing and then last night we went to another church and watched them sing again. It was an absolutely wonderful day of worship. And then today I found out that my pastor has gotten the Singing Couriers to come to our church to sing in Febuary. They are such wonderful singers and I hope that everyone there enjoys them as much as dh and I do.

Back to my weight gain/weight loss-

I struggle to not eat fattening things I wish there was a magic pill to make it all easier for me. Please do not tell me about Alli-I don't think I would like the side affects. I am going to stop obsessing about my pounds and I am going to focus more on eating healthy at least 90 percent of the time. 90 % is a good number if I don't go totally overboard on the 10% of the time that I eat slack. Right now I am craving fudge-peanut butter fudge to be exzact. so tomorrow I wil buy a container of fudge. The sad part is that I do not want a container I just want a piece of fudge but if I buy an entire container guess where all those pieces are going to end up? Yep that's right they will end up on my end and my sides and my front. All I want is ONE piece.

That is a quick catch up

God bless you all
Love you all much
Take care
Be good

The silver smith

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed. The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it." If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you. Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going through, they'll be a better person in the end.

a prayer

Dear Havenly Father
I love you Lord, and I praise you for all the wonderful things that you do for us daily. I thnk you for being able to get out of bed and walk and think and have health I think you for the sunshine and O Lord I thank you for the Sonshine.

I ask God that you have your hand upon B today as he goes about his work. Protect him as he drives and God, place Your mark on him, so that each person he meets will see that he is Your child. Let all that talks with him know that he is a son of the most high living God.

Bless him Father with your touch as he goes to the Dr. today. You know our situation Lord, and I trust and have faith in You for I know that "You will perfect that which concerneth me" and I know that You "are not a respector of persons" and I know that "by His stripes we are healed"

You are faithful Lord and that means that Your word is true for you said "my word will not return void"

Bless oh God, our church, our pastor, mom and dad, my brothers and sister. the Lynch family, the evangelist-Chucky Chandler,B's work, (we need rain Lord) bless our politicians, and our solders in Iran and bring them all home safe and sound.

I know your way is the right way Lord and I trust and have faith in you to do what is best for "all things work togeather for for good for them that love the Lord."

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen

208.4---Monday

Weight is looking so much better and I am so very glad


11049 pedometer steps for today
1459 calories for today

exercise was
25 minutes floor exercises and hand weights
55 min. mowing
60 min. walking

Yep I am feeling better

went to a revival tonight and heard an evangelist named Chucky Chandler, he was terrific, we will be going back tomorrow night if nothing happens to prevent us from going.

Sleep well
Sweet dreams.

209.4---Sunday

6994 pedometer steps for today
1475 calories

45 minutes of arobics

I went to church this morning and it started off bad. My mom had already told me that she did not want me to bring grandbaby over anymore (remember he is two yrs old) because he tires her out. I do not take him over and expct her to look after him i do not let him run and jump. OK but she did not tell barb that she could not bring Katie over plus yesterday she went ot a b day party for Katie. Now you know that there wer lotws of running and jumping and children all over the place so why didn't that tire her out??????hmmmmmm so when I found that out I was just so ready to leave the church and sitting ther I heard tht still voice inside that said "Why ar eyou blaming me for what man chooses to do?" Now that was like a dash of cold water and it woke me up spiritually. I talked to dh and he and I agreed that it might be a good idea to just move to a different part of the church. So that is what I did tonight. I liked it it was actually cooler over there than where I had been sitting. And I have lots of friends over there. They were so happy that dh and I moved over there, and so was I.

That is all about my day.

God bless.

212.4-Saturday

OK that does not make me feel good at all. But the light is visible, I can see improvement soon.......I feel so much better and this morning I did

25 minutes of floor exercises and hand weights and I walked while I talked on the phone.

Still not as good as I usually do BUT I think I am doing good considering that I still have a small amount pain.

Tomorrow I will do some arobics, a Leslie walk away the pounds video.

calories was 1315. ( I am going to try to keep it around 1300 calories a day)
pedometer steps was 2937.

Tonight dh and I went to a concert that was being put on to raise money for a church that had burned. It was put on by the manager of a black religious radio station. Three of the entertainers "The praise and worship team" they looked like they might have been about 13 yers. old and so sweet. What they did was -totally in sync with each other-a song was played on a cd player and they used sign language and danced to the song. It was like poetry in motion. So sweet!!!

There were black and white in the audience and you just do not see that to often. It is not discouraged or forbidden or anything. I think it is more the different taste in gospel music, that differance was there tonight, and I was not used to it but I heard the words and I know that they were praising the Lord.

THe black entertainers did sing different type of music but it was sweet. And they sat and listened to the southern Gospel singers and they were tapping their feet and clapping hands and saying amen and praise the Lord. I was just so happy to see that both blacks and whites were there for a common purpose and they were all worshipping regardless of color. Good time had by all.

But at the end, a black man stood up and announced that they were going to have a meeting the next day about how to recognize gangs when they come toward you. I live in a small community with maybe altogeather 10-15 thousand people. I knew that gangs were beginning and I knew that many of the gangs that were forming were mexican and some percentage of chinese, a chinese owned huge business opened here several years ago and most of the employees were brought over from China. I found out tonight that most of the gangs were predominately blacks.

It just seems that things are getting worse and worse. I am so worried for the young people around here.

Anyway I had a good time tonight, (the chairs were unpadded metal and that was not a good thing to spend 2 and 1/2 hours sitting on) other that had a good time

I ran into Lila Mae M someone that used to go to Curves when I worked there. She and her dd were there and it was good to see them and talk to them for a few minutes.

Sleep well
God bless

212.4-Friday

I am going up on my weight, but I can see a light ahead. I think I am over the worse of my diverticulitus and I think I will be able to exercise tomorrow and begin again watching my calories. While it was hurting all I could eat were prunes and oatmeal and other easy to digest food. Those things oare very high calories and I had to eat them often. Looking forward to tomorrow, I can get back into a routine and tomorrow evening there is a religious concert being held. I can not wait to go to it.

sleep well

210.2-Thursday

still sick, ate the wrong things and no exercise.

I have had this before and I still have about 2 to 3 days ahead of me with fever and weakness. I'll be glad when it is over.

sleep well

All about baby

I did not keep baby yesterday so I had the time to put up little signs. Baby came today and he saw the papers and he ran around looking at them and saying the letters and then I would tell him what the letters spelled. He does not have finesse with his pronunciation, so for W he says something that sounds like ubbel ubbel u. I do say it correctly for him but I do not make a big deal of it.
He searched for each sign and he would point and look at me to say the word and then he wanted them down, so I took them down and he stacked them up set in the floor and spread them out and pointed said the letters.
I am not sure he gets the conections of letters spell words and the words are the objects. He learns but I am not sure it is all coming togeather for him.
I am going to cut out pictures and tape them under the words and then tape it again on the objects.
He knows what a tv is so maybe I wil start there.
This is so much fun for me. It has been a long time since I saw a small child learn and you can see the understanding light his eyes up and he is so excited when he learns something new.

208.6-Tuesday

16517 pedometer steps
1595 calories for today

Exercise for today
60 minutes arobics
45 minutes walking

208.8-Sunday

10299-pedometer steps
1549-calories for today

exercise for today
60 minutes of leslie sansonne walk away the pounds
30 min. walking

my day

Up at 5:20 exercised for 60 minutes, showered, cooked, and baby came and time passed and we went to church-wonderful service. Then we went to a singing at 2;30 came home at 4:30 rested for moments, and then went to evening service. That was my day.

IT was a wonderful day but also tiring and I am glad to be able to pull my clothes off and just sit back.

One thing that happened though tha treally hurt my fellings. Patty a good friend that was at the Golden Harveters Friday night, she and her husband video taped me giving my speech. Patty was telling my Mom this morning how God had annointed me and even though it was painful telling the story of the robbery I told it and now so many people would get a blessing because I told it. My Mom said "I probably heard allready" She did not say it nice either. Family ugh sometimes strangers treat you better than your family does.

Sleep well everyone

209.4-SATURDAY

I knew my weight would be higher and I am actually happy cause i thought it would be even higher.

11368 pedometer steps
1540 calories

exercise for today

25 min. floor exercises and hand weights
45 min. arobics
65 min. ironing
40 min. walking

Not much going on here. Visited a friend today, tried to help her with my pitiful computer knowledge. I feel so very inadequate.

Church tomorrow I am so looking forward to being in church.

Sweet dreams everyone

208.4-Friday

10994 pedometer steps
?????? calories for today

exercise for today was
45 minutes arobics
40 minutes of walking

I ate too many calories for today cause the Golden Harvesters meeting had too much good food. ok I know what I have to do and I enjoyed the fellowship and I enjoyed the food. I will begin trying to repair what damage that I brought upon myself.

My speech went well, I almost started crying when I was talking about the robbery, it is still traumatic. But I got it out and I talked about the forgiveness and compassion I feel toward the robber.

Next month is time to vote for another president and I reminded everyone tonight about the voting and to be thinking aboutwho they want to vote for. One couple in there is so sweet and they were the ones that were video taping my speech tonight. The man said he wanted to take the count and I said ok but why? He said cause he was going to tell everyone that if they did not want to vote for me then they could leave now. I thought that was so sweet.


Have a good night and sweet dreams everyone.

208.4-Thursday

10730 pedometer steps

1495 calories for today

Exercise was
25 min. floor exercises and hand weights
35 min. walking
10 min. bike
30 min. arobics

OK today was just a a day that I did so little I actually feel ashamed of myself.

I have my speech that I am giving tomorrow night finished and I have went over it several times.

Dh and I went to a revival tonight. The sermon was about Isaiah's vision of the crucifixtion of Jesus. It was preached by my favorite retired minister.

My speech for tomorrow night is "The Freedom of Forgiveness" and it is how I came to forgive the man that robbed me. Maybe I will post it in the religious forum. Maybe tomorrow. It is late and I am sleepy.

Karl Barth quote

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God”

“In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”


“It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.”

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.”

“Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.”

“No one can be saved--in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved--in virtue of what God can do.”

Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them”

209.4-Wednesday

10232 pedometer steps fortoday
1490 calories for today although I just ate a handful of nuts, so add maybe 150 to my calorie total.

exercise for today was
14 min. bike
35 min. arobics
45 min. walking

So I kept baby today, he is just too sweet and so cute. I finally got him to eat some soup today. I can not stand it when children go through that phase that they do not want to eat. I also got him to drink some water. Usually he will not drink any he wills ip it and then throuw the cup in the floor but today he drank several times. AHHHH a major breakthrough.

My legs hurt like arthritus in the knee joints. I had to take some advil. Tomorrow I am going to eat at least 2 bananas, I have read that the potassium in bananas can help with leg paion. I am not sure it will help with arthritus but it can't hurt and maybe it will feel better because of the placebo affect. Am I gullible enough for me to fool myself into thinking that it will do some good. HMMMMM Not sure, I will start chanting now.

bananas will help
bananas will help

Okay that is boring

Just got back from church, sermon was on revelations. He did a wonderful job. On Friday night I am having a golden harvesters meeting and I had talked with a friend about the devotion I am giving on the "The Releasing Power of Forgiveness" She and her husband asked if they could video me as I give the speech. How about that> My video debut. Could be the start of a wonderful career. lol Maybe that is how Kathy Bates got her start.

Tonight when daughter came to get grandson, I was ready to jump in the shower, and I looked down the hall and saw her playing with baby. That was a moment that time just stood still. My litle girl bending over, staring at baby as he looked up with such adoring eyes at his mama. She was smiling at him, and he was telling her something in his baby talk. In my mind I almost saw superimposed over her and baby, me and her -28 yrs. ago. What a moment.

Have a great sleep
God bless you all

210.0-Tuesday

11220-pedometer steps
1640-calories for today

exercise was 70 min. arobics
10 min. biking
20 min. walking

Gotta make this quick baby is still here, he is going to spend the night, and he wants my attention and it is hard to type holding baby, playing with baby,singing with baby, etc.

Not much is happening around here anyway, dh is going ot revival and I am staying here with baby. My dd is going to come here when she gets off of work and she is going to spend the night here too. I could take the baby with me and go ahead but he is particularly hyper today and I sure woould not enjoy the service and no one else would either.

Sleep well everyone
Love you all
God bless

209.2-monday

209.2--Monday


12326 pedometer steps
1645 calories for today
exercise for today
50 min. arobics
25 min. floor exercises and hand weights
40 min. walk
10 min. bike

Let me tell you I just got a freaky IM from somebody, they were hitting on me. Wanted to know where I live, I told him I was old. he said he did not care wanted to know where I live I said I was too old to be interested, he asked if I like younger men, and I said my hubby would not like this and he said where is hubby and I said I was a Christian and he left,. Is that weird or what. I shold have said I was old AND fat and seen what he would have said.

I had a wonderful day. I am studying in Revelations, and I called my preacher to see if he had any study guides. So far I have not heard back from him.

DD went to the dentist and they rebuilt her broken tooth and all is well with her.I kept G-son while she was at dentist.

Dh and I went to a revival tonight what a wonderful service, The preacher is 72 and he preached like a man in his 40's, He preached on the babtism of the Holy Ghost./ and what a great sermon The entire congregation was moved by the the Holy Spirit. We are going tomorrow night to hear him again.

Sleep well everyone
God bless you all

210.8-Sunday (I am ashamed)

That is right this morning I weiged 2 pounds more than I did the day before and why you ask? Because I did not use self control at the golden corral on Sat. I ate like I did not have a weight problem. The good thing is I am healthy and I have a few days before I am faced with another tempting situation. My golden harvesters meeting is next fri. night and the food at that meeting is so good. More about that later.

11521 pedometer steps
1495 calories for today

exercise was
85 minutes of arobics
10 minutes of stationary biking

I went to church this morning and there was a special singing and it was wonderful. Those singers had such a great sound.

Tonight service was about what we are supposed to do to help our teachers and our preacher. Our pastor did a wonderful job.

Sleep well
God Bless

208.8-Friday

16666 pedometer steps
1640 calories for today

exercise was
35 minutes of arobics and
95 minutes of mowing

I mowed this morning and I do not believe it has been this hard on me since I started mowing some years ago. I don't know why it was so hard. I played on my computer a lot today and I did laundry. Then dh and I went uptown and bought baby a present for his birthday party tomorrow. I think he is going to really like his little leapfrog and spiderman car.

I went over my calories a bit today but i think it will be ok. I did exercies a lot this morning; Plus how will I be able to tell if today affected me after tomorrow. I mean birthday cake and icecream and pizza. ACK The world is a horrible place for a dieter. lol

I ate a little icecream tonight. I bought one of those really small containers and saw that calories was 180 I did not think that was too bad for the amount I was getting. I get home and dig in and oh no ack---- it had two servings in it and each serving was 180. So I strongly took half of it to dh and said here you eat it. And surprize he did. lol and did not argue with me at all.

Our steel guitar player at church got seick and had to go to the hospital.. I heard from them today and he was released today I am glad he is such a dear man, He is 75 yrs. old and just a praying caring man of God. I think my heart would almost break if something happened to him.

God bless you all
Sleep well.

208.8-Thursday

14108 pedometer steps
1560 calories for today

exercise was
25 minutes of floor exercises and hand weights
60 minutes of push mowing
30 minutes of arobics
10 minutes of stationary bike

I got up early and did floor exercises and hand weights with dh. He went to work and I called my grandson. Today is his 2nd birthday, he did not knowwhy I was singing to him but he loved me singing.

Then I had my devotional, studing in psalms. What a beautiful book, David sure loved to praise the Lord.

Then I went out and mowed, it took me 1 hour to do less than 1/3 of my lawn.

Tomorrow I will mow the front and out by the highway and the side of my house and then Saturday I will finish it up. That is a hot and tiring job, but you know I love doing it. I love being out in the fresh air, and I love pushing my body to walk fast and my mower is non automatic? Is that the right word? I don't think it is but when you don't push my mower it don't move.

Then shower dress and play on my computer. Jolly fun.

Our steel guitar player from church is in the hospital. I am worried about him. He and his wife are just such special people, so loving and I know that he has been losing a lot of weight lately and that does not sound good at all. His wife is our piana player and she can really play beautiful. I would like to get him something to let him know that my husband and I care about him but don't have a clue what to get him.


That is it.

Sleep well
God bless.

209.2-Wednesday-August 1

15753 pecometer steps
1405 calories for today

exercise was
45 minutes of arobics
30 minutes of walking
14 minutes of stationary bike
8 hours of playing w/ 2 yr. old baby

I had a good day and I had a most definite hooray moment. Dh bought some sugar wafers to take in his lunch and he opened the package to eat some tonight, He offered me some and I took one -yes yes just one. And I walked away.

I ate healthy, anti oxidant high foods all day.
vegetables-tomatoes, cauliflower, cucumbers, mushrooms, celery, 12 cherry tomatoes w/ a little blue cheese dressing.

fruit-papaya, plum, apple

2 servings of fiber

1 serving of meat

2 servings of protein shake

3 cups of coffee

I went to church tonight. Our pastors wife had to go get an epidural for a bad back and she really was having some problems so he stayed home with her. We had a retired minister do the service, he was alright and I know I should not find fault. BUT BUT BUT

His false teeth do not fit properly and when he talks he whistles. I simply could not get into the sermon at all because I kept waiting on the whistle. I know that is so bad of me. I feel like I cheated myself by not being able to get beyond something that I should have been able to overlook.

Baby was here today and we went to by groceries. I am really enjoying not being fearful about getting out. I still have a moment or two sometimes but for the most part I can just get in car and go. It feels like I have been released from a prison.

Anyway baby was just charming everyone He was singing "the wheels on the bus go round and round" He could not pronounce all the words correctly but he had the tune . And he would get things confused, like he would say "the wheels on the bus go beep beep beep. " He already has the deli ladies charmed and when we go in he waves and says coowie his name for cookie and they give him a free cookie, and cupcakes. But today even the customers was laughing. He was cute.

Something happened that embarrased me. I did not take enough money. I took 50 dollars but my groceries came to 51. 36 so I had to put something back. That was the first time in like 30 yrs. that I have had to do that.

Sleep well everyone

G-son-ahhhh that is so cute moment

G-son is sitting at my feet playing with his books, being a quiet and sweet boy. He started singing and I glanced down and he had a book open to a schoolbus and what he was singing was The wheels on the bus go round and round.

What he was saying was

Weee go oun an oun
oun an oun
Weee go bee bee bee
sh sh sh sh sh shshshshsh

and he was carrying the tune perfectly even though he could not say the words properly.

Just a very precious baby moment.