So, here we are at Friday again!
I've been working on business things this afternoon and laying a plan for tomorrow so that I don't waste any time, but can be super productive!
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| I call this Time Clock. It traces the soul's journey on our timeline in the flesh. (You can click the image to see it full size) |
This week has been good from the fasting perspective. It was exciting to be able to enjoy a piece of toasted Turkish bread with Vegemite, yesterday! SOOO, yum! My shepherd's pie was also yum and shared with a few others, who also enjoyed it. It didn't really feel like it had been almost three months since I'd eaten red meat!
I do feel I need to continue to be fairly light with it all, though, and am happy to do so.
Feeling Encouraged
I also had an appointment with a physio last Monday, and I must say, I felt SO uplifted by the time we concluded. She was enormously encouraging and congratulated me on my efforts to do something healthy with my body. I did tell her it was more for spiritual reasons but there was hoped for physical benefits as well, and not having the same pain with my ankle and my lower back was definitely one of them!
I had pretty much forgotten about them on the most part, and the physio seemed quite confident that my actions had contributed to that ( unlike the doctor who had referred me and said "You have a lot of things wrong with you!" which, as you might imagine, had the potential for a deep impact on my psyche- coz I didn't hear it as a physical diagnosis. Hot on the heels of my emotional hurts, it carried quite a nasty sting!
But after time with Emma... I was in a completely different place!
Embarrassing Relief
I left the Physio and headed to my car...it's a very funny short story, that tickled me, so I made a Facebook video. If you want a little chuckle.. press Play
hee hee...
My Ongoing Quandry
All, this week, I have been seriously deliberating about how to make some changes to my FAR TOO HECTIC routine. I have heard myself saying This is so not me, nor how I want to live for so long, I'm fed up with myself! lol I just have to make a change!
Since I sold up and packed up and started travelling 7 years ago, I have lived at a pace which is so seriously out-of-sync with my wiring and life goal desires, that I have a gut wrenching longing to restore the stillness in my routine. It's unbelievable that it has taken so long for me to come to the point where I can-not because a magical solution has appeared, but because it is simply unacceptable to continue this way when I know it is contrary to all that is good health and productivity for me.
I simply must STOP.
My Solution
In thinking about it, I guess I do have a solution.
All week I have been thinking about the things that matter most to me. I have literally cried over all the creative works I was feeling I could never do because I always had to be doing something else! It's never been my way to live like that, and I am bummed that I let myself get to that at this point in my life.
But, it is being where I am that is leading to a more driven commitment to be fully dedicated to where I truly want to be and the way I always vowed to spend my most precious commodity-time. Of course, all this is in light of where I feel God has called me and His purposes for my time in the flesh as Helen Ivicevich would say.
And as I say, Don't waste time doing things that keep you from doing what counts.
I have been giving very careful consideration to these two categories of things. They can all be good things ( Just like the list the Apostle Paul gave in Phil 3:3-8 ), but if they are not the specific good things prepared in advance for you, or me ( Eph 2:10), to do, they could well be wasted time, because whilst we give our life's blood to them, we are not giving it where it really should be going.
I just can't bear that thought any more. Something MUST change!
Full Circle
That brings me back to where I started this whole 100 Day thing-remember? To clear the slate and shake off all the dead weight that I had taken on and have been trying to run a good race, whilst carrying. These un-scriptural paradigms and strongholds, afforded access through poor choices, that have had me bound and distanced from my true north, are being shed, along with unwanted kilos.
This song Full Circle is one of my originals. It is still relevant for me :) coz I feel I am coming home in a new way again. <3
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