A thought from my dream

Last night I had the most random dream, and thought I would share it with you all.

In my dream I was driving in my car (Mazda Protege 5) down a road with a few other people in the car (not really sure who the people were). The road was weird, there was no shoulder, or guardrails, and if you ran off the road you fell into the lake, or body of water. While driving there were all sorts of animals both dead and alive all over the road. Animals like Bears, Buffaloes, Wolves, etc. that at one point began chasing the car. If we hit the animals they would die, and somehow my car managed to be able to drive over the animals. The next thing I know we were at the “end” of the road and the devil was there, but even he wasn’t what I would really imaging, but it was a small chunky guy (reminded me of Buddha) with horns and a pitchfork. And I remember the devil stabbing his heart and said “Ha ha, you can’t kill me!” And I had a Bible in my hand and said, “Too bad my sword is better than yours!” And then I remember trying to say Jesus, but all that would come out at first was just “JE” – It was almost like the devils presence was constricting us to be able to say Jesus. Finally I was able to say Jesus and the devil and those with him dispersed.

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I’m really not sure what this dream really meant, but the thing that kept coming in my mind as I was telling people today was, I’m so glad that I knew what to do when faced by the devil. And it made me start thinking about how many people in the world that doesn’t know who to call on when something comes up. So many people run to so many different things, shoot, I’m guilty of it sometimes.

So, who do you call on when faced with problems? Is Jesus the first person you go to? Second? Last? Never? Hmmm….makes ya think!

The Journey and other musings

So I am 4.5 weeks into my journey of a healthier lifestyle, as of this past Tuesday I have lost 6% of my body weight, and have lost the most out of the group of people that are doing it together. It’s been hard for me to really see a difference in my weight, the scale says that I am loosing, but its hard to see it, in my opinion. But I will say I do feel like I have more energy. I don’t like to just sit around doing nothing now, I want to get up and be more active. This journey for me is more about having a more active lifestyle. I always hear about people running marathons or 5k’s, or doing the ride for life, and I’ve always secretly wished that I could be one of those people. Maybe one day, sooner than later hopefully, I will be one of those people. I know it won’t be overnight or anything. And maybe I will never do it, but I at least want to be in the position of being capable of doing it.

There are times in my life that I have felt like something was about to change, and most of the time it did. I really feel like I am in another time where I feel like something is about to change, I’m not really sure what it is. And I really don’t know if I want the change. But with change always comes growth.

I feel like there is more to life than this. I’m just stuck in a rut doing the same things. But there is so much more to be done. I want to be able to be the woman God wants me to be. I really don’t know where life will take me next. But I know that HE has me in HIS hands!

Well, that’s about it for now. I need to get back to practicing for tomorrow morning. I hope you have a wonderful day, and that God blesses you beyond your imagination!

The Journey Begins

I am sure that there are many of you that are wondering exactly what “journey” I am going on. Well a few weeks ago I was watching the Biggest Loser and decided that if they could make a lifestyle change, then I should be able to. So I got together with 8 other people to start our own Biggest Loser group so we can all help each other stay motivated. Today was the first day, we all weighed in, very humbling to let others know how much you weigh, and then 3 of us did a work out, which was a killer for me, and then I also walked one mile on the treadmill (not much, but a good start). We are on a 20 week journey, that will last a lifetime, we will each put $5 per week into a pot and then at the end of the 20 weeks the person that has lost the most weight will get all the money ($900). At the half-way point we are all bringing $10 extra and the person that has lost the most at that point will get the $90. Well we are really doing percentage of body weight, not the most pounds.

This is very hard for me to put this out in the open, but I figured it’s quite obvious that I’m overweight and the more people that know, the more motivation I will have to keep pushing forward. Please, if you remember, say a prayer for me periodically as I begin this journey. Pray for strength to be able to make it through the workouts, and then to be able to make it through the day as my muscles will be very sore by the end of the day.

I will be posting periodically as to how I’m doing and everything so you can be more specific with the prayers. I will weigh-in again in 2 weeks, at that point I will post how much percentage of body weight I have lost.

Thanks for caring enough to read, and for praying that I can make it. It really isn’t about the money, but about a lifestyle change, I am sick and tired of not being able to do things that I would like to do because my weight holds me back. I am ready to get healthy and quit lying to myself that it’s okay to be overweight.

And so, the journey begins…