Last year I went on a calorie counting diet. It meant 1000kj a meal, 5 meals a day.
Restricting my intake that much meant that when three hours rolled around and it was time for my next meal I was delightfully hungry. I LOVE eating when I’m hungry! Food just tastes so Good!!
Now that I’m back to ordinary eating I often forget to eat.
And when I forget to eat in the busyness of a day, I eventually forget my hunger. Until I think to eat, and when those nutrients hit my body I realise just how sluggish I had been for the past few hours and why!!! I was starving my body!
tonight at "Club Bible (better than Hans' BS)" we were reading Psalm 1 and ElderLiao (heh slash Paul) was encouraging us from the passage to be like the blessed man who is compared to a tree planted by the stream.
in ordinary language, be hungry for God's word.
Crave bible reading time.
(God has been hitting me over the head with this one lately btw)
i think hunger is the right word here. Because its often like that with being Hungry for God's Spirit through His Word. Hunger numbs eventually so you don't know its there, but its still there.
So i am RESOLVED to fill my heart and soul and mind and strength with the nutrients per se of God's word. I want to fill myself up with Him, and I know that regular bible reading will make me realise how hungry I've been all along.
If you're the praying kind, please pray for me that I would be faithful to this resolution, for God's glory and not for my own gratification alone.
love you all
In Him
Kat
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Window to the past
I have been doing a fair bit of reflecting lately, into the past, into who I was 10, 5 or even 2 years ago. This has been predicated by two main events, maybe three
The first is that on this coming Tuesday I will be at the airport to farewell one of the most influential women in my life at the moment, after my family. For the last two years my emotional and spiritual growth has been the burden / responsibility of one Jodi Mac, and looking back to two years ago is a scary thing. It is going to be hard to say goodbye because I can see how far I’ve grown emotionally and spiritually in this last year, and more than that I can see how much farther I have to go now, and thanks so much to her I have learnt to not build barriers around myself, but instead to trust, to let people in, so that God can bring into my life more beautiful women who can inspire me and love me, and who I can love and serve in return, so that we can together fight to follow Christ. I am healthier because of God’s work through you Jodi Mac, thankyou for being you (and not just in terms of being a fitness freak who inspires me to physically healthiness, but for being someone who is willing to look inwardly, to be real about needing people, and to be excited about being a daughter lovingly made by the Creator).
The second is today my old credo small group (FINALLY) caught up. 2004, second semester, I had become a Christian earlier that year, but still thought I knew it all. These are the people who inspired me on in godliness and maturity, particularly to have guys who were so counter cultural - who valued relationships, who were loving and respectful towards women as sisters, and who sought to see people and themselves walk closer to God. Today I was reminded so much of the blessings of all these people in my life, even if I haven’t seen them in too long, the impact from almost 5 years ago is still working at me.
There are times when I am just so thankful for the weaknesses God has put in me, because they force me to need others, to be a part of the body of believers, rather than thinking I can go it alone. There are so many other people in my life who love and inspire me, listing them all would not give due honour to their place in my life, but if you seek to love people and build them up, then I just want to say thankyou. Thankyou for those with generous hearts and minds to give me a moment of your time, a hug when I need one, to buy me lunch when I’m low on cash. Thankyou for those who work up the courage to rebuke me in love, even though it hurts you and me, its a tear that heals stronger both in our relationship together and our relationships with God.
It reminds me of that bit in Hebrews ch10 : And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Thankyou for being my brothers and sisters as we throw off all that weighs us down or so easily ensnares so that we may run this race with our eyes fixed on Jesus.
In Him
Kat
The first is that on this coming Tuesday I will be at the airport to farewell one of the most influential women in my life at the moment, after my family. For the last two years my emotional and spiritual growth has been the burden / responsibility of one Jodi Mac, and looking back to two years ago is a scary thing. It is going to be hard to say goodbye because I can see how far I’ve grown emotionally and spiritually in this last year, and more than that I can see how much farther I have to go now, and thanks so much to her I have learnt to not build barriers around myself, but instead to trust, to let people in, so that God can bring into my life more beautiful women who can inspire me and love me, and who I can love and serve in return, so that we can together fight to follow Christ. I am healthier because of God’s work through you Jodi Mac, thankyou for being you (and not just in terms of being a fitness freak who inspires me to physically healthiness, but for being someone who is willing to look inwardly, to be real about needing people, and to be excited about being a daughter lovingly made by the Creator).
The second is today my old credo small group (FINALLY) caught up. 2004, second semester, I had become a Christian earlier that year, but still thought I knew it all. These are the people who inspired me on in godliness and maturity, particularly to have guys who were so counter cultural - who valued relationships, who were loving and respectful towards women as sisters, and who sought to see people and themselves walk closer to God. Today I was reminded so much of the blessings of all these people in my life, even if I haven’t seen them in too long, the impact from almost 5 years ago is still working at me.
There are times when I am just so thankful for the weaknesses God has put in me, because they force me to need others, to be a part of the body of believers, rather than thinking I can go it alone. There are so many other people in my life who love and inspire me, listing them all would not give due honour to their place in my life, but if you seek to love people and build them up, then I just want to say thankyou. Thankyou for those with generous hearts and minds to give me a moment of your time, a hug when I need one, to buy me lunch when I’m low on cash. Thankyou for those who work up the courage to rebuke me in love, even though it hurts you and me, its a tear that heals stronger both in our relationship together and our relationships with God.
It reminds me of that bit in Hebrews ch10 : And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Thankyou for being my brothers and sisters as we throw off all that weighs us down or so easily ensnares so that we may run this race with our eyes fixed on Jesus.
In Him
Kat
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