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Day #48 - Still marveling that God has kept me going this long! All praise and glory to Him! No weight loss this morning. Still have five pounds to lose, and now I only have nine days to do it. No worries. God's still got this, even though I've only lost 4 pounds in the PAST 9 days. "Oh the depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and His ways past finding out." If IIII was the one in charge here, I'd let myself lose all 5 pounds tomorrow morning. For some reason, though, God seems to want me to have to trust Him all the way to the finish line. I've never run a marathon, but this seems kinda like one to me. If it takes me all the way until June 27th to get to 199 pounds, I will have fasted 57 days (a smidge over eight weeks!)
Many people have said things like I'm persistent, diligent, dedicated, focused. Unfortunately, none of those things describes the "normal" me. I'm VERY undisciplined in "real life." That's how I know this is from God - because it is so UNlike me.
OK, sermon over. Let you tell me about my green beans. I have TWO green beans that are ready for picking. T-W-O, dos, a pair. There are less than ten others that are growing. I've come to a hard decision. GULP. I'm going to take them all to the back field, and empty out the containers and start again from scratch. I ordered some Royal Burgundy (purple, bush) and Kentucky Wonder (green, pole) beans which will arrive tomorrow. I'll have to wait until I win the contest to have the money to buy new potting soil for 14 big containers. These are going to be some expensive beans, but (when they're doing WELL) they bring me a lot of pleasure - joy, even.
Grandkids will be gone until Monday, so I'm going to wait until Sunday to clean the pool. If I did it now, it would just need it again by then anyway, so why bother, right? BUT, my 14-year-old grandson downstairs (who has been at a friend's house) is now back home and has the friend staying over. They MIGHT come up today and want to use the pool, ugh! Seems counterproductive for me to spend an hour cleaning it when he stays IN it less than an hour when he does go in. I was going to say, "fingers crossed that he doesn't want to go in," but then I thought I should pray about it instead, which I did, and I immediately came up with a brilliant idea - Maybe I'll just tell him that I'm not going to clean it until Sunday, let him take a look at it, and decide for himself if he wants to go in it or not. Yeah, that's what I'll do!
OK, I'd love to sit here and chat all day, but I've got a Bible Study lesson to complete before my phone call this afternoon. We're studying "Ten Women of the Bible," and are completing Rahab today. Interesting fact, we discovered: five of the eight times Rahab is mentioned in the Bible, she is referred to as "Rahab the harlot." That brings to mind a feeling of what kind of person she was. BUT, we found out that Rahab was actually the mother of Boaz, who was the wonderful guy in the book of Ruth. Rahab raised a kind, loving, successful, responsible, nurturing son. And, she went on to become the great-grandmother (?) of King David.
OOOPS! I said sermon was over, didn't I?
Toodles!
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92.5 kg
Lost so far: 24.9 kg.
Still to go: 24.5 kg.
Diet followed: 100%.
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steady weight
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