SunnyD- We meet one time a month and everyone brings an ingredient...organic of course.

I finally have some work to do today, so I will catch ya all later.

EZ- My oh my...what a great journal. I started filling it out already. I will be visiting the website later. What do I owe for that book?

You guys, Michele is on Cloud Nine right now. She'll be back soon!

Well, we had a meeting with a guy who might do our cabinets. He was very hopeful but wasn't promising anything. He'll get back to us in a few days with an estimate and time frame. I am so thankful that I can use most of my old cabinets. They are still in great shape and we're saving ourselves thousands of dollars. I look forward to when it's all finished.

I got in my 2 miles this a.m. and am planning healthy meals. I have a hair appt. today after work. I'm looking forward to it. My hairdresser is trying some new things with my hair and I'm letting her have free reign. So far I like what she's doing and I can cut it all off again if I get tired of it.

Gotta get to work. Have a super day!

Hi guys,

Having major problems at work with the computer, have to unplug to use the keyboard and then reconnect to the USB port to try and print.....anyway, just wanted to say hi and yes i HAVE been on and last night i tried to post pics, but computer at home kept shutting down, just when i was almost ready to send, twice!!!! Arrrgh! I got too frustrated. I WILL try again..and yes i'm on Cloud 9 although now i can start torturing myself with.....wonder if he'll call? When? What's next? Maybe he didn't like me after all? But as I told my mother last night...it is in God's hands and i'm going to go with it. Besides I'm too busy now to worry about such things.

Tonight I start my training. Will be a long night. I'll hopefully post pics, maybe later tonight.

Hi to all You guys are so fun, i love my 3fc friends!

October 6


Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.


Kip was amazed at how easily he took the stairs. When his kids had begged him to climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty with them, he had squirmed. He remembered what a labor it had been when he was fat. He knew that he never would have made it before. Instead of a painful trauma, he found the climb a relative breeze. Thank God he had been able to lose the weight. It was the best move he ever made. It had been tough, but Kip had relied heavily on God to help him out. While he had been dieting, he had needed God's strength. Now that he was thin, God let him use his own strength once again.
Today's thought: Food gives us temporary strength. God gives us strength forever!

Watching for a sign

Luke 11:16 says
Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven.

As we sipped our tea, my friend said, "If I'm really supposed to lose weight, why doesn't God give me a sign?"

God probably has given her a sign. At her last checkup, her blood pressure was high and she was found to be hovering at the edge of diabetes. God was surely speaking through her test results.

Maybe our first sign from God comes when we can't buttom up our jeans or when we look awful in a favorite dress. Most of us don't see those events as heavenly messages, because we think God has to speak throuogh the thunder, or send down some handwriting on the wall. The trick is recognizing signs in everyday things and events and remembering that God is always nearby, always sending words of encouragement and directon.

For further reflection
On a journal page, list the ways God has already shown you that you need to examine your relationship with food. Then list the ways you plan to respond to God's sign.


Prayer
Open my eyes and ears, my God, so that I may see what You hold in store for me.

If Jesus were with you in His physical body and spend the entire day with you, how would His presence affect:
* where you go?
* what you do?
* what you say?
* what you eat?

Thanks Marilyn, I really was missing those morning readings. Boy the last one is food for thought about what we do, say, speak. We need so to remember that Jesus is walking with us right now. Also at my weight there were many many signs that I was outside God's will with my eating but Satan helped me come up with excuses for not dealing with it. How are you doing?

Mkay, back to work probably with everything to catch up on what you missed Monday. That class sounds interesting. It fits right in with SBD thinking on eating whole natural foods.

Mitchy: Sorry about the computers, how aggrevating

Gary, are they keeping you hopping this week?

Wilma, what great news about being able to use some of the existing cabinets. What a Hopefully, this guy will keep his word about getting around to stuff. I am getting my hair cut soon, I am donating it so I need to have an extra 8 inches other than the 10 they cut and I think I am pretty close to that. Gonna talk to my hairdresser today about it.

As for me today I am going to vacuum my mom's house then work all day again. I was supposed to paint but someone could not work again so my son and dil are finishing the house today. So hi ho hi ho it's off to work I go.

Hello to everyone else. Hope you all have a wonderful day today.

Sunny- We also had one of those classes and dedicated it to raw foods. That was awesome. The organic is too pricey for me but then so is SB. Hmmm...maybe I'm on to something here. The hummus recipe was great. I will post it if you want me to.

Well, made it through a workday. DH called me and asked me to come home for lunch...he locked himself out of the house. Awwww...He did have lunch for me and was very appreciative.

KP duty for me tonight. UGH! I'm hoping everyone shows up tonight and there are one too many...I will nicely volunteer to go home.

My very dear friend Beth and I were discussing how we are just so out of life these days. No passion about anything. We decided that we don't know how to embrace life. How does one do that?

Our first thing is tonight, just for ourselves, we are going to light our favorite candle and just burn it. Just for ourselves. I'm going to enjoy mine while I read devotions.

Our second thing is to live outside the box so Friday, she will be going to a football game without DH (her daughter has something to do at it). This is SO not her. But...I'm challenging her to actually strike up a conversation with someone. Outside her box.

My outside box is to go practice my bow at lunch time. She even wants to go with me.

We have more embracing to do this weekend. I think we both need to get outside and embrace nature.

I don't think God wants us to be sheltered in our houses all the time. On earth as it is in heaven.

Who else wants to go outside the box this week? Let me know!

Catch ya all later!

HI LOOOOOSERS

I have been busy...but....Ron and Ryan have been on the computer almost non-stop the last few days with homework stuff.

Not too much time today so I will have to be quick.

SUNNYD I already sent you a journal, didn't I...it was about 6 or 8 months ago...it is the same one as before, however if you don't have it or need another I will send one. As far as the cheerios...my mom told me that after mama..dada..my first words were didio's..I would tell my grandma "didio's gammaw didio's"...however, now (as much as I love them) if I eat them for breakfast then go to work and have to bend over much...ooo! on the tummy.

MKAY Glad you like the journal..keep using it!! The website isn't up yet, maybe this week-end..I will let you know...no charge for yours...as I said Angie is not trying to solicit from my 3FC ladies...some of the other gals have asked for them and given great feed-back (thank MICHELE for the amount of water intake per day glasses!! )
As far as embracing life...heck dear, we all go through sluggish times...but God's word is true and without a doubt no matter how sad we are if we continue to look towards His promises we find happiness eventually...as He says GIVE and then we will receive...explore HIS adventures for us (just as you are doing this friday I might add!) if you lived here you could go to the high school football games with us...I LOVE HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS!! of course I LOVE ALL SPORTS!!

MICHELE Lookin' for those pictures Miss Hottie

WILMA good luck with the cabinet man..sometimes (as I am sure he told you) you can just replace the doors and hardware to save $$$$

BUNNA Hey dear, they are repainting the house across the street to resale..ol Joe's..should I give them your #

SPROUT, SUE, ANGIE and any one I forgot...HELLO! oops! where have you been SAMI? I almost forgot you!! sorry.

Hello I am so sorry I have been MIA. I am stressed to my breaking point right now. Please Pray for my MOM she is going in to have her biopsy thursday. My MIL is doing alright. But she is worried that the step son who had nothing to do with his DAD and didn't even come to the services for his father is now trying to protest the will. My SFIL had a lot of money in stocks and the will says my MIL gets proceeds until she dieds and then his sons get the stock after she is gone. The Sad thing is He makes very good money. So he is just greedy. I will try to post more often please forgive me for not post to each one. But I just wanted to let you know I am keeping all of you in my prayers. And I have really missed your posts.
Will try to post more Friday,
Sami

Here's Lonnie and me!!

Mitchy- WHEW...those eyes...he is hot and red is his color. ok...I want your hair. How beautiful...don't get it cut...ever! Black is a good color with that hair. Have you heard from him? Don't you hate that period of time after the first date...it's mind boggling.

EZ- I was explaining my "embracing" thing to a sister-friend of mine and she e-mailed me a prayer that I wasn't expecting. It touched my heart and when I got home from work I thought that maybe I need to embrace myself first. And to embrace myself, I must love myself more and value myself more which leads to taking better care of myself. BUT FIRST...I long to embrace my Father; and you are right...things will go from there. Thank you for your words of wisdom. I'm hoping today's journaling will look better than yesterday. I just hate writing the work "junk" for my meals and snacks.

Sami- Be still my friend and unwind. I will keep you in my prayers (I do all of you anyway).

I have to get back to work. Public notices MUST go out by Monday and I have a ways to go yet.

Thanking God for all of you!
Mary

Looking good Mitchy! He is cute!!! and you are beautiful. Gorgeous hair.

October 7


Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.


Darren felt bad withdrawing from the group, but he had to. The other three men kept cheating on their diets, and that was no help at all. Each time they gave in to temptation, Darren asked himself why he tried so hard when everyone else quit. Darren needed strength and support, not more temptation. At least on his own he stood a fighting chance. Darren prayed for guidance. Dieting was hard enough without other people making it harder. We need to attach ourselves to those who are serious and committed to losing weight. God will help us have all the strength we need to keep on our diets.
Today's thought: The weight that I've lost, was of minimal cost!