day six - diet devo...

It's Friday! I am having trouble waking up today. Matt got called out late again last night, so not much sleeping. Our anniversary (18th) is this weekend and we had planned to go out tonight, but I'm not sure it would be much fun if we are falling asleep while trying to eat dinner... we'll see. Bailey and Emelia come home tomorrow afternoon so things will definitely liven up around here. I have a ton of things on my to do list for today. Mostly involve cleaning... It is raining buckets here. Seriously, it's like flooding everywhere. Amanda called last night again (from Canada). I really do enjoy her calls and want to hear about the day she had but sheesh, it is 79 cents per minute international roaming and .50 per text. She sent about 13 messages to me yesterday and the day before and talked about 12 minutes. I am thinking two weeks of this could end up with a huge cell phone bill! She shopped yesterday, I asked her what she bought and she bought t-shirts for all her siblings, isn't that sweet? I thought so. I am so glad she is having such a good time and fun experience seeing new things.
We listened to a really good teaching last night about being joyful. There are so many scriptures talking about being joyful and yet it seems many 'Christians' are just not so much. Not a criticism, I realize life can throw some curves... but this speaker talked about the fact that by being joyful you have won. Satan is trying to get to you and if he can't steal your joy he has failed.
Okay, here is day six in the diet devo...

"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." Hebrews 9:22

If we learn anything at all from being a Christian, we learn that good things do not come without a sacrifice. Jesus had to give everything. He had to in order to reunite us with God. If we decide to be the best we can be, then we need to accept the fact that there is some sacrifice required. When we learn to sacrifice, we learn what it means to be Christian. Sacrifice is a good discipline. Sacrifice teaches us what is really important, and it helps us be thankful for what we have. When we stop to think of how great Christ's sacrifice for us was, it inspires us in our diets to become better people; people worth dying for!

Todays thought: Dieting can draw me closer to being a disciple!

If you are a coke drinker (like me :o() you should pop over to Michael's blog and read the article about soda. It wasn't a fun read, don't let me fool you... but, it did make me think and I need to work to eliminate my best friend coke from my diet... I'll be praying about this.

I highlighted my brother's daughter's (two of them) hair yesterday. They looked pretty good.
I even took back that immersion blender, fortunately I had kept the box and receipt. I just exchanged it and you know what happened the first time I used the new one? It got caught on a vitamin again. Never happened before yesterday and then twice in one day! It didn't kill it this time so we're all good. I did have a nice little walk through target.

What are you glad about today? I'm glad it's Friday, I'm glad I get to see the kids tomorrow. I'm glad God is watering my flowers for me.