My Journey Through Life

Good Sunday morning! This has been a good week.  I have been giving a lot of thought to me, my issues and how God is helping me overcome them. Last fall, I started using a prayer journal to improve my communication with the Lord. It has worked wonderfully!  I take the time each morning to sit with my journal and a cup of coffee and talk to God.  I realized that my prayer life wasn't what it could, or should be since I wasn't really giving all my attention to God.  It was like sitting talking to a friend and trying to multi-task three other things.  You don't really connect with that person and they probably feel like you aren't paying attention.  God deserves more attention from me - and I deserve to take that time to connect with Him. I started by reading a bunch of different suggestions on Pinterest - they were very helpful in getting me started.  I bought a spiral bound journal and started writing.  I spent lots of time sitting and thinking about what I wanted

Good Saturday evening!  I think I finally figured out why people like to write Blogs...the reason I want to write now is that I have found there are things that I would like to talk about but I don't know other people who want to talk about the same thing. Let me give you an example: Over the course of the past 5 years, I have lost 73 pounds.  From January 2013 till about August, I lost around 60 pounds. I kept that off until early 2015.  I started working an office job, which I never did before, and I gained about 20 pounds back.  In the summer of 2017, I got partly back on track and lost 5 pounds, but just couldn't get the rest off. My goal weight at that time was 160...and I was hovering around 175 - 178.  Finally sometime late last Fall, with some encouragement from my DH, I started losing again and since then have reached my 160 pound goal...reset my goal to 155, reached that goal...reset my goal to 150...and I reached that goal last week!  Now my goal

April 21, 2018 Today I was fortunate enough to attend a training event for Celebrate Recovery.  What a blessing this was. I have so much to be thankful for!  My journey through life has improved over the course of the past 10 months!  I used to think that the only way I could have time to pray in the morning was to multi-task by praying while I was exercising or getting ready for work, or driving to work.  I now equate this to trying to talk to someone while doing something else that is taking your attention.  I wasn't giving God the attention that He deserved.  I started using a prayer journal and what a difference it has made in my prayer life! I will go into more detail on this as I progress through the coming weeks, but for now, I just wanted to reintroduce myself to the blogger community. Happy Spring...I think it may be here to stay at last!