I survived day one of my healthy eating and stayed near my goal of 1500 calories. I didn't drink enough water, but I'm working on a fourth bottle right now. I didn't get any exercise in because I ended up with a fever and aches, along with a sore throat and cruddy coughing. This is going to be difficult I'm sure, but I know I can do this! :) I found a devo for dieters (see my sidebar), and figure I'll add it to my reading...I was looking at the archives and a couple of days ago it had a great statement... "Once we decide something is wrong, (being overweight, for exam-ple), then doing that thing is sinful. Some may say, 'Well, the Bible doesn't say obesity is a sin.' The Bible does tell us that anything we do that makes us less than God created us to be is a sin. To be pure in heart means to try to do everything we know we ought to do."
On another note.....SOCCER.....Nick's team lost their first game today with a score of O-1. They'll probably be knocked to 3rd place, depending on the outcome of other games. But hey, he's actually had a winning season compared to previous years, so he's okay with it. Elisabeth didn't play today because she was still running a fever this morning and took 2 naps today. But, Jerry went to help coach the team and said they did really well, they won 3-1! :)
And on yet another subject, tomorrow is preview service #2 at Grace. I'm praying that I will be feeling fine in the morning. I'm helping with the Children's ministry for awhile, until it gets going and more people get involved. I'm just so excited that God has presented us with this opportunity and that He's not through with us when it comes to working with youth. I so miss doing that on a regular basis, but it's coming very soon. We already have one youth who is a junior who is very committed and her mom told me she's excited to start working with Jerry in helping to build the youth group! (This is actually a girl who visited our old youth group with a friend about 3 years ago, how weird is that? She was already going to church with her parents elsewhere, but just visited with her friend. Her mom is actually in charge of the Children's Ministry at the moment.) Anyway, it's neat how God brought us back to the Tampa area, gave us our jobs back, led us to work with Grace Community, and is now giving us the opportunity to be back in ministry. Our desire was to stay in this area, we felt we were obeying God when we left for the East side of the state, and were devastated but at peace with how we ended up coming back over here. There was a reason, but with our finite vision of "the here and now" it's hard to see what possible blessings and purpose our hardships can have. I know things won't be easy, but I am finally content with our situation again. (My bad, I haven't totally learned to be content in "whatsoever state I'm in"...but I'm working on it.)
