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Devotions for Dieter's H. Victor Kane 2/17
Topic Started: Feb 17 2005, 04:35 AM (29 Views)
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From "Devotions for Dieter's," by H. Victor Kane

He Observes Himself and Forgets

.....he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. James 1:24

Man is that contradictory creature who gets a great laugh out of seeing his distorted shape in the "crazy mirror" at Coney Island but is utterly impervious to what he finds in the looking glass at home! Day after day, he surveys this ludicrous reflection---fatty jowls, bulging bosom, and roundhouse hips---but he neither cracks a smile nor sheds a tear.

This composure is good at times, because some things that happen in the aging process cannot be altered. Gray hair and balding brow, wrinkled skin, and failing sight are circumstances one may not change. Nature has a way of working out an acceptance of all this; otherwise, we might lose our sanity. You observe all these unwelcome developments every time you face the mirror, but somehow it doesn't matter too much.

But there is one thing we can preserve, or recover, and that is our shape. It is the sole point where an older person can keep a bit of his youth. And the best things of all is that a slim figure not only retains youth but it preserves health! A double blessing: to look well and to feel well, no matter what happens to externals such as hair and skin.

The secret of all this is to refuse nature's temptation to accept obesity as something that happens, particularly if you are the jolly, friendly type. Let someone else be the clown. Take a long, hard look at the grotesque guy in the mirror and remember what you see! Remember, too, that shapely person who used to smile back at you.

Don't laugh it off; take it off by sensible diet and moderate exercise. One of these days there will be a stranger in the mirror---that person you used to be.

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