So it seems like just yesterday Jen and I posted our first blog entitled “Our Journey Together”. However, it has already been a week, and now it is time for us to post our first update. I think that for me, this has been a decent week. Spiritually speaking my focus has been fairly good. I still haven’t been having the quiet time I desire to have on a daily basis, although, from time to time I do manage to get into the word some.
Some of the strengths of this week though have been the fact that I have began a daily reading plan that should get me through the whole Bible in one year. The plan I chose is a chronological plan. How it has worked thus far is I use an application called “You Version” and is available for I-products, and also android products. It is called the “Reading God’s Story” and was authored by George Guthrie. This product is nice because this app has an audio feature, and so we have actually been listening to the readings on a daily basis every lunch time, and so the whole family is benefitting from this change.
There are some things however, that I’m also needing to work on. I have a quick temper, and therefore I have a tendency to yell when I don’t feel like Jen or the children are listening to me. In my relationship with Jen this can cause conflict of course, and then I worry about my children seeing me in fear, instead of seeing the love I really do have for them. Because of this tendency I have decided to try to memorize Proverbs 15:18 which states: “A hot tempered man stirs up conflict, but a man slow to anger calms strife (Holman Christian Standard).”
Physically things are going very well. I’m doing better at least doing my daily body tests, but I still need to do better on regular exercise. The good thing I have done is I have begun to lower my caloric intake, and through that I have actually lost over 10lbs in the past two months. I’m very excited to add a few extra notches to the belt, plus I’m already seeing small changes in my blood pressure and pulse.
I have set myself a goal of losing 7 pounds in the next two months, although I may change that to 10. This week I see myself needing to be more faithful in regular, 30 minute exercise segments. I hope to continue on this path of weight loss, and see if I could realistically get at least half way towards my goal of over 80lbs of weight loss by the end of 2012.
Spiritually speaking, I am again going to try to focus on being more committed in my goal of having regular quiet time. I have in fact sent out a request for suggestions as to which book of the Bible I should study for this next year as in-depth as I can go. Thus far James and 2 Timothy have been suggested, but I’m more than willing for some additional suggestions.
Now for Jen’s update:
Good evening my dear friends, I hang my head in shame as I have to tell you this week did not go so well for me. It started off good, but my depression got the better of me. I don’t do well with change, and even the prospects of it, which it has been full of both…. I’m not going to go into details of it, but it started with a new routine, and sick little ones that totally hindered my perfectionist’s agenda.
So, now that I think about it, I didn’t do as badly as I thought, but my depression did get pretty bad. For most of the week I had one or two sick babies that needed me what felt like every! Single! Moment! Which I’m not complaining about, it just makes it hard when I set such high goals for myself and not give myself the grace I truly need, instead of the emotional beatings. Tomorrow I am really hoping to start getting up earlier and getting in the Word, and at least catching up a little on my Bible reading as I have fallen behind already; also, to spend a few minutes on my Wii. I once read that if I at least show up, that is an improvement. I know that once I get back into the Word and just try to make sure I am not letting lil miss princess perfectionist get in the way and do the baby steps again, I’ll be on the right road.
I am sooooooooooo tired of always being tired; I am so tired of the cycle of being too tired to work out and so then vice versa. I am so tired of not fitting in my largest clothes and not being able to find pretty ones because either they are all taken at the stores that I shop or they don’t make them in my size or the cost is astronomical at a reg store because of the darn size. I am so tired of not being able to use my lap to put Bible on so I can take notes in church. I am so tired of others, not all, but some, avoiding me because of my weight. I am tired of being a cranky pants and so I am too focused on myself to be a blessing to others. This has gotta stop! So, that’s my update, and I’m stickin to it, lol. Thank you for sitting through my lil pep talk, if that’s what that was…….
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