Back on the health kick...

I am realizing that the desire to eat right and to maintain healthiness seems to wax and wane. Sometimes I'm full-steam ahead EAT WHAT'S GOOD FOR ME. Other times, I get lax and stop caring, and the 'this little thing won't hurt me' bug comes whispering in my ear. It's not that eating right is a religion for me (although it was once)...it's just that when I begin to eat bad, and feel the consequences, I start to want the good stuff, to avoid the negative outcomes.

The problem is that I usually wait until something is going wrong, aka a headache or stomach ache, tiredness...etc...before I make some changes and do something about it. Another problem is that the same thing holds true with this walk with Jesus. I usually wait until something goes wrong or something bad happens before I seek His face. If everything is chugging along all hunky dory, then complacency kicks in and bam there I am, beginning to forget.

If choosing fruits and veggies instead of chips and cake seems hard, it is nothing compared to the daily choices of whether to go our own way or to follow Christ. In both cases, knowing that long-term it will be better this way in the end, spurs me along and gives encouragement to deny a few small pleasures for greater, larger, more fulfilling ones. I pray God will give me strength and wisdom to see that what this world has to offer is candy and sweets that cause stomachaches, in comparison to what you hold out to us, nutrients and life-stustaining health in your open hands.