Happy Monday! Our church wrapped up a sermon series yesterday on the 7 Deadly Sins. They were all powerful messages but our family was anxiously awaiting the one on Gluttony, which our pastor delivered yesterday. I knew it would be powerful because obviously it my biggest struggle, but also it's the one our pastor has struggled with as well. He lost over 70 pounds in the last year and during his sermon shared a very vulnerable journal entry he wrote 10+ years ago. It was a very moving message and very helpful to hear a biblical perspective on Gluttony and our relationship with food. I will link it below if you want to take a listen, this is just the sermon without the singing etc from the morning service. The full service is on their channel as well under the Livestreams.
Hopefully you can join me tonight on the Livestream here in this group at 7pm est. Have a wonderful Monday!!
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Labor Day for those in the US, I believe it's a holiday in Canada today as well (Also Labour Day but just spelled different 😂). Do you have the day off today? I am going to walk this morning and then go get a massage this afternoon to work out some of the kinks I've developed from all my traveling recently.
We are one week into September and our beast mode challenge. How are things going so far? Just remember you aren't stuck with the same goals you set at the beginning of the month. It's totally okay to make adjustments as you go if needed. It's also okay to change your non-negotiable if you haven't been able to stick to it. Find something very simple and attainable that will help you build some momentum.
What's your non-negotiable for this week?
If you're interested we can do a livestream tomorrow (Tuesday) before I leave again on Wednesday.
On week days I try to sit with the sunrise. I sit have a moment with God while I sip on coffee and hug my dog. It is so peaceful. Today I had 2 leftover burger patties, 2 smoked chicken thighs, then air fried pork belly we smoked yesterday. It was a great day of eating!! We got a lot accomplished today. We spent our labor day laboring...hahaha! All our weeds and the vegetable garden is taken care of tho. That was a huge task!
