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Faithfully Fit 10/13
Topic Started: Oct 13 2004, 03:36 AM (43 Views)
editor	Oct 13 2004, 03:36 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 38,145 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 29, 2003	From "Faithfully Fit," by Claire Cloninger & Laura Barr A Penchant for Drama I love before-and-after stories. I almost always stop to read the diet ads and gaze open-mouthed a photos of Clarissa Snodgrass, who has metamorphosed form a doughy was of a person into a shapely shadow of her former self (usually with very little effort on her part). That's the kind of story I thought at times I'd love to have. The high-voltage kind. How impressive to be able to say, "I used to weigh four hundred pounds, and then this miraculous thing occurred, and now I weigh one hundred ten, and I will forever!" Why am I so drawn to the sagas of "miracle" weight-loss? You might say I have a penchant for drama----high drama! Gradual changes have never made my heart go pitter-pat. I guess I've been conditioned by thirty-minute TV shows and thirty-second commercials to look for something flashy to happen in the bat of an eye. Unfortunately, documenting my own real-life weight loss would take a lot more prime time than a thirty-minute sitcom (or even a six-week miniseries!). Over the years it has been a day-to-day, week-to-week, up-and-down journey. I have vacillated from compulsive to contrite to complacent and back again many times over the past dozen or so years. I have fluctuated several dress sizes from slim to down right dumpy. I have tried stacks of quick-fix diets that appealed to my penchant for drama. I have experimented with countless numbers of weight-control tricks and exercise gimmicks, but nothing about my eating really changed until I became willing to stop seeking the dramatic and acquire a DESIRE for reality. Today I have an earnest desire for what is available to me in Jesus Christ. Today I desire nothing less than a whole and healthy life. I long for a balanced view of all God's gifts in general, and of one in particular: food. I want to eat right and keep eating right. I want to stop overeating a stay stopped. I am entirely ready to let go of the fleeting lure of the dramatic. I desire the kind of sane and balanced life that is in line with what my God has for me today, for I know it will be his best! How could I desire more? Prayer: Father, your love is changing the world, and it is changing me. I desire to live in the reality of your love. Your story is one of grace and salvation. I lay my life and health and eating habits before you now. I pray that you will receive me in the fullness of your grace and in the glory of your victory. I desire what you have for me, and I long to honor you with everything I say and do and am. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen. Scripture: "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the DESIRES of your heart," Psalm 37:4, NIV, emphasis added. Affirmation: My life and my eating are sane and balanced. Suggestions: During your quiet time, ask God to show you where you have been in your patterns of eating, where you are now, and SPECIFICALLY where he wants you to go. (If you ask specifically, he will show you specifically.) Write out your insights. As you exercise today, repeat over and over to yourself, "Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 15:57,NIV).



Deleted User	Oct 13 2004, 01:29 PM Post #2
Deleted User	AWESOME!!! I praise God for the way He works through you and the way YOU LET HIM work through you. You just wrapped up in a neet little package what He has been speaking to me these past few days that I haven't been able to come here. GREAT IS HIS FAITHFULNESS!!
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editor	Oct 13 2004, 01:37 PM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 38,145 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 29, 2003	That is an awesome testimony, Tammy. From, "I can't" to, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthen's me." Go, girl!



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