Showing posts with label 21DaysGratitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 21DaysGratitude. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Blessed Beyond Measure

When I was pregnant for our daughter we decided it was time to trade in my high school car for something that could actually fit a carseat in it.  
We used a good chunk of case with a "small loan" to get our SUV and love it.
However, we missed the freedom of not having a car loan.  
So we saved up some cash to buy our next vehicle, a mini van from an auto auction.
Then we sold that and used cash to a new car.
And now...finally...we traded in and got our mini van.

NO LOAN! 


Thank you Jesus! 

My amazing husband traded cars patiently waiting for the van he wanted for his family.
He researched to find the safest van made in the year we would be buying.
For the little car lot in town that not only had the van we wanted, 
but was willing to trade the van for our car.

We're so blessed to have a heavenly Father who cares for our every need.


Thursday, November 08, 2012

Falling in Love


...all over again! 


This girls seriously makes me fall in love with her more each day!

She's filled with such joy and glee.  
Loves overflows from her like no one I know.
Her spunky personality makes everyone around her laugh.


I'm so blessed that God has entrusted me be her mommy! 

Friday, November 02, 2012

Blessed with Health

Today our focus is being blessed with our health and I am SO blessed!
In high school I was so sick and miss so much school people thought I was a new girl.
My body rejected almost everything I ate.
It was months of plain cooked pasta and animal crackers.
Not so healthy, but it was the absolute only things that didn't send me to the hospital.
One time I remember being in so much pain I couldn't say the letter "T."
That night ended in a trip to the ER and a shot in the rear.
I was also told it might be very hard for me to have kids.

Today I have the most beautiful little girl and I am healthy.
Somehow I take it for granted now.
But if I take time to reflect on how God has healed my body, I'm blown away.

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It seems like a completely different life throwing up at the smell certain smells, leaving parties because the food made me sick, not having a single week in my senior year that I attended five days a week.

It seems appropriate that I've felt very convicted of my current health habits lately.
When I ran my 10K I felt on top of the world! 
I couldn't believe my body held up and I exceeded my goals.
Now, I've probably run ten times since May.

My clean eating habits {I say habits because I'm not a clean eater} have slowly faded.
As the busyness of holidays approach I want to be happy about my choices.
No, I don't think I need to run over three miles at a time in the snow.
However I want to be happy with what I'm doing.

10 push-ups, 10 crunches, 10 squats {5 rounds} 

That means I've accepted the Clean Eats in the Zoo at home CrossFit challenge.
During this time I'll be doing light running a few days a week. 
Through out the winter I want to be able to do light running,
then start working my way up to complete a 25K race!

I have goals! {finally again!}
For Christmas I'm thinking race registration.
Accountability! 

I'm blessed with where I've come from and want to continue honoring God with my body.


"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."

-1 Corinthians 6:19-20




21 Days of Gratitude

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Blessing of Friendship

Over the last years I've had a handful of closer friends then I've ever had.
It's not easy to make friends because life circumstances are different, busy schedules, etc.  
I'm a friendly person, but I just long for deep friendship.
Not just surface lets have fun and drink coffee together.
But the type of friendship when I can drive to your house (with out calling) 
in tears when my world feels like it's falling apart.
Friendship isn't something that's simple, I'm reminded it takes work. 

Yet I let me other relationships comes first before the most intimate relationship I should have.  
There is a list of excuses that I can pull from at anytime.  
I'm grateful for the friendships God has blessed me with,
but I'm reminded I need to be as eager and joyful to 
sip coffee and enjoy time with God each day.

21 Days of Gratitude