I gained twenty pounds today. Really. I am so depressed. Our bathroom scale broke so we bought a new one. When I stepped on it I found out I was twenty pounds heavier than I thought I was. This ranks up there with one of the top twenty horrors in my life. I didn’t even have the pleasure of twenty chocolate milkshakes to account for this calamity. I did have one milkshake last week at Denny’s but I didn’t eat anything else. That was my meal! Yeah, I know better.
I guess it’s time to up my Fitbit walking goal for each day. Perhaps I should only eat half a bowl of cereal in the morning. Just last week I learned that the supposed truth about breakfast being the most important meal of the day isn’t so. The research that was used to support that idea was paid for by Kellogg. Humm?
It is difficult to let go of things we thought were true only to discover it just “ain’t” so. I was taught in Bible class at my parochial high school that we should strive with all our might to be perfect and the part we can’t do is the part Jesus makes up for us. Wow. How could that ever have been taught? Had he not read Philippians 3:8-9, “I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.” That heresy was a great weight that needed to be lost. Jesus is EVERYTHING
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 28, 2016
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