Patience & Forgiveness

Patience & Forgiveness

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I have been feeling impatient with myself.

Feeling like there is so much to do

and not enough time to get it done.

This morning I am reminded that I need to be 

PATIENT

with myself. And with others.

I feel like there is so much to be done

and it is 

 

and then I do one of two things.

I either get frustrated with others and myself

or I hide and do nothing.

This morning I was reminded that 

 

is what is important.

And so I come to God this morning

asking Him for patience in attacking my LONG To Do List

and

forgiveness for letting my frustrations run loose.

Monday Morning Musings

Woke to 

 

at 4:41 this morning...flashes of bright light, rolling thunder (not to loud) 

and rain drops tinkling on the roof of the motor home.

Rolled out of bed at 4:46 and turned the alarm off so as not to wake Ron.

A cup of coffee seemed very inviting but not to be as I have a doctor's appointment this morning and some fasting blood tests.  Good thing the appointment is at 8 a.m. so by 9:30 I should be able to have a cup of Java...may have to stop at Starbucks :)

Had a very quiet weekend at the campground...will be glad when we get busy.  Ron was busy replacing the air conditioner in the Activity Room...will be nice to be able to play games, walk on the treadmill or pedal on the stationary bike without feeling like you are in a sauna.  

Sunday we went to breakfast 

and who do we meet but Darrell & Patti :)  

They are off to Dallas for a few days 

but we will see them again on Wednesday.  

We came back to the campground and did a few things in the office then went to see Barbara Fairchild and her family at the Kinfolk Reunion ( you can read more about it at The Wandering Workentins later this week ~ the camera is still in the car and it's raining........)

I started my morning routine and immediately felt discouraged...got on the scale...I hate the scale but it is also a good reminder what I need to be focusing on.  I started The Beck Diet Solution back on 4/25/13 and was doing really well.  It is a 6 week program...okay I took almost 3 months.  At one point I was down 8 lbs for a total loss of 23 lbs but today I am only down  1.1 lbs for a total loss of 16.6 lbs...and there is no one to blame but me, Me, ME!!!  I do so well and then seem to flounder.  

So frustrating and yet it is all my doing.  

And then I remember

that I need to

 

and

 

and

 

and that

 

and so today I

 

and

 

by setting a few goals:

1.  Drink at least 3 23 oz bottles of water

2.  Write down everything I eat (log on myfitnesspal.com)

3.  Make healthy food choices

and remember

 

What do you struggle with?  

Is there anything I can pray about for you?

Lord, thank you for this gentle reminder this morning that You love me no matter what.  

Thank you for this new day, to begin anew with you.  Thank you for walking beside me each and every day of my life and encouraging me when I fall.  Thank you Jesus for loving me!!  Amen.

A Little Encouragement from God this morning.

I can't believe it is

a

 already!!!

What a busy week we have had.

Lots of work and yet found time to play a little.

Yesterday we spent about five hours working on the apartment.  The bathroom carpet was pulled up and surprise there was linoleum underneath so that came out.  All the faceplates were taken off in the bedroom and bathroom and both rooms are taped and ready for some paint.  Can't wait to get started on that...not sure when that will happen but I know it will be soon.

I found myself a little disgusted with myself this morning when I stepped on the scale...I had been doing so well while we were in Kansas and it seems since we have been back in Missouri that my focus on me, my health, eating and drinking healthy has kind of been pushed aside.  

Oh, I am doing okay, not binging or anything like that, just not being intentional in my eating and exercising.  Some days are better than others.

And then I opened my Bible. 

To

 

and I just started crying...

Lord you are my strength, my strong tower

and I need to remember I can't do this on my own.

I need you!!!  

And then to reinforce those thoughts

He focused me on 

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

and I like how The Message reads:

So it’s paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him. God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It’s a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It’s land where you’ll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It’s a land where you’ll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills. After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land he has given you.

Make sure you don’t forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God,the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery; the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions;
the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock; the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you.

If you start thinking to yourselves, “I did all this. And all by myself. I’m rich. It’s all mine!”—well, think again. Remember that God, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that he promised to your ancestors—as it is today.

It is so easy in the "good" (fill it in...busy, hectic, stressful) times to try to do things on my own and forget to seek God for his help, his guidance, his promises, to lose sight of his many blessings, his power, his strength, his love...God sees and knows everything about me...I just need to focus on him each and every day, ask Him to be with me, to help me in each activity I do, each project I engage in.

I need to remind myself each day I am not on this journey alone, that God is with me to help me do things all the way, with an enthusiasm and eagerness that comes from God.

Thank you Lord for your Word this morning, reminding me  

 

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Thank you Jesus for encouraging me this morning.

It was just what I needed.