august 8, 2011
today is catch up day in many different ways. i am catching up on the laundry, cleaning up the freezer and the refrigerator to catch up on what i might need at the grocery store, and trying to stay caught up with terry as he works outside on the deck.
here i need to do a little catching up/looking in on my two goals that i set for myself early in the year. the first was to read through the Bible by the end of the year, hopefully on a daily basis, journaling as i went. i have been successful about half of the time. i am up to somewhere in may (my daily Bible has a specific reading for each day of the year), reading through the book of Job right now. the current theme for me is the consistency of God, His faithfulness to His people and His promises. i am always amazed that no matter what, when we place our confidence in God – as we should – He always comes through. He is always there, just not always in the way or ways we think it should be. i am inconsistent but my God never fails. He is there when i am not just as He is when i deliberately seek Him.
My second goal was to continue to lose weight with weight watchers. i have been faithful to go to the meetings but the weight is still a big issue. medicine taken for nerve pain related to my back ended up being a real bummer – after my body adjusted to it i began to gain about 2 pounds a week, no matter how much i managed my eating. when it finally became clear that the pills were the problem i had gained almost all of my initial loss back. now it is once again a struggle but with some small success along the way. i feel like i will at least have a total net loss at the end of my first year on this program which i began september 1, 2010.
i continue to knit on projects that i can’t talk about. they are either christmas gifts or for sock club at the store, which is always a surprise. so today i thought i would share some pictures of our recent day trip to yosemite. it was already august but the falls and the river were just amazingly full. we went up to glacier point first and then down to the Ahwahnee for lunch. it was a wonderful day and a reminder that we are truly blessed to have such beauty right in our own back yard.
