Day 8! Transitions!

All in all, last week was awesome!  I have not enjoyed exercising like this in years!

In yesterday's blog, I mentioned the spiritual disciplines and the three categories: Inner, outer and corporate disciplines.  This week I have decided to pick three: Meditation, Simplicity and Confession; one from each category and see how I can fit them into my health challenge.

Meditation.  We are instructed in the scriptures to hide the words in our heart and meditate on them day and night.  As we fill our heart with Truth we begin to speak Truth. "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."  What we speak becomes our reality. This principle is demonstrated in:

Romans 10:9,10 "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."


And again:  Proverbs 4:20-22" My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart, for they are life to those who find them and health to all their body."


So for this week, I am going to meditate on these scriptures in Romans and Proverbs and I am going to meditate on the Truth that "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 149:13.


I will report any revelation I get.  For now, I am expecting transformation in my heart, that will transform my speech, that will transform my health! 


Simplicity.  As an American, I have great wealth.  I am not rich and do not live in a fancy house, but by the world's standard of living, I am a princess!  I also do not know how to let go of things.  I am an ADD person who attaches emotional attachment to my things.  God has been dealing with me about this.  I know rationally, that if I let go of sentimental things, that I will not lose the person I associate the "thing" with, but emotionally, it is another story.  This health challenge has impacted my life on so many levels.  As I am seeing my exercise plan as one of total simplicity: sit-ups, push-ups and walking/jogging; it is spilling over to my personal life as a homemaker and office manager.  I feel the call to simplify in every area of my life.  Even in my worship: Love God and let Him love me! How simple is that?? 


Confession.  I guess that is what this blog is all about. I am confessing to my brothers and sisters out there in cyber world the struggles and weaknesses I am experiencing.  I want to be as honest as is possible in this quest for health. I find that as I am honest it encourages other to be honest.  Honesty is the best way to become healthy.  As I share with all of you, I find it easier to share with others in face to face life.  Thanks for being there and listening! 


Blessings, Anna Marie