April 27, 2012 - Walk Into The Wind

Praise God it's Friday! Just an update......starting this week, I have decided to not blog on Saturday or Sunday. Saturday is my day with my husband and Sunday is my rest and celebration day with my church family. So, I will blog faithfully Monday-Friday to keep our family moving forward and take the weekends off. Therefore, this is the last blog for this week. Hope that's ok. :) As I walked last night in the strong wind, it presented itself as a force of opposition. I was walking and meditating about things in our health journey that present themselves as forces of opposition: our attitudes our ability to move the boundaries our ability to make excuses to cheat our families and friends who are "scared" we're not eating enough the television various reports of the latest "diet" fads our schedules/events being unprepared not seeing our health as we should and "rolling the dice" cost of eating healthy going out to eat HUNGER our past diet cycles ETC, ETC, ETC (from the King and I) :) But listen, we can allow the force of the "wind" to deter us OR we walk INTO the winds of opposition and realize THAT SOMETIMES the opposition causes us to exert more energy, use more muscles and enhance our health journey. There are two choices but both have to do with the way we SEE things. Is the opposition strong enough to push you off course or even cause you to stop, or is it a challenge and you love the victory of pushing it back??? The wind was strong last night, and my muscles sore this morning but I smile because I OUTLASTED the opposition! We can do this fam! Outlasting our opposition and our past is critical to our long-term health. Yes it is! Choose life and eat to live, PK