It's YOU.
Who else is as critical of the way you look? Or weigh? Or appear, 24/7 with NO BREAK from the constant nagging voices "in your head" telling you that you're too thin, too fat, too unorganized, not a good enough cook or housekeeper, should be working out more, eating CLEAN, handwriting thank-you notes more often and promptly........
Oh girlfriend.....the list is endless....and we do it to ourselves CONSTANTLY!
On the way to school drop off/work today, I heard a GREAT list being shared, on our local Christian radio station-The JOY FM titled "Stop It." Read each point in detail by following THIS LINK.
Stop It:
1. Stop saying “yes” to everyone.
2. Stop saying “no” to yourself.
3. Stop apologizing all the time!
4. Stop comparing your life to what your friends post on Facebook.
5. Stop viewing food as the enemy.
6. Stop body snarking – out loud AND in your head.
7. Stop obsessively untagging yourself in every “unflattering” photo.
8. Stop trying to make your life or house look like Pinterest.
9. Stop being plugged in 24/7.
10. Stop wearing heels everyday.
11. Stop fearing being alone.
12: Stop holding onto toxic relationships.
Do any of those resonate in your soul and heart? Some were like "WOW---I struggle with that DAILY!" Others (like #10 and #11) made me giggle. I.don't.do.heels. And I'd LOVE to be alone. In a cabin. In the woods. For LONG periods of time!
How can you begin TODAY, to start cleaning up the emotional and mental beat downs you maybe giving yourself? I'm going to commit to #2 (as I sit un-showered ready to crawl into bed) and #6 over the next month. Let me know how I may pray for you, if any of this has hit a soft/vulnerable spot in your heart.
July 11, 2013 -the evening before Baby was born.
38 weeks 6 days pregnant. 62" tall and 52.5" ROUND. Do the math. I was HUGE!
2 lbs weight LOSS total.
38 weeks 6 days pregnant. 62" tall and 52.5" ROUND. Do the math. I was HUGE!
2 lbs weight LOSS total.
God truly had His marvelous hand upon me during that VERY long 124 months of pregnancy!
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
Psalm 139:13-16 (The Message)
Now, I must ask, as I end this--did you read that, thinking about the baby waiting to be birth inside my womb, in the above photo? I wasn't. Not tonight at least.....as I read this passage from various versions (using a favorite online tool- biblegateway.com) I kept smiling at the sweet reminder that my Heavenly Father thinks that I am MARVELOUSLY MADE!
Sleep on that.
