Blog Moving

I have decided to move this blog to the Wordpress site, because I have move my other blog and it seems to be a better platform.  You can find my new blog at http://misplacedramblingsofthemind.wordpress.com/

Health Inventory

Melanie from Only a Breath started a new blog called Real Food Experiment.  Deciding that she needs to make some changes in her life and her eating habits she has decided to take an inventory of where things are now.

Her story here:
http://www.realfoodexperiment.com/2013/01/my-before-story/

Exercise

• I don't

Eating Habits

• Recently gave up soda when I am at home (last month)
• Replaced Soda with Kool-aid and Flavored Green Tea
• Eat a lot of junk food, processed food, and sweets
• Eat almost no veggies or fruits
• Skip meals
• Eat out at least 4 times a month

Experiencing

• Overweight (205.5 pounds)
• Clothes don't fit or look right
• Physically unfit
• Takes little to tire me out
• Hyperthyroid issues
• High Cholesterol

Things I am reading/working on

I am trying to live more this year, instead of spending as much time on the computer.  But I haven't forgotten about my promise to blog more on this blog.

So lets look at what I am reading these days:

• Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves 
• Greater

I am also trying to finish cleaning up my room that I mentioned was a huge mess because of my last major depressive episode.  I am seeing great progress there!!!

I am also working on improving my prayer life, digging deeper into the Word, and hope to start my in-depth study on Heaven soon, which I will probably blog about on my other blog.  So excited about the possibilities for this year.

Getting rid of labels

This year I have decided to part with labels.  Since I am doing this I wanted to repost a blog post I shared on my other blog last year....slightly edited to take out the irrelevant parts that applied to the bible study on Unglued by Lysa Terkuerst.

Labels, well they can be pretty damaging.  I have labeled myself over the years, and allowed others to label me.  Labels such as

•  Depressed
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Lazy
• Worthless

Labels can be very hurtful, and using those labels as the way we identify ourselves can be very dangerous to our sense of self.   I know that for me I have allowed labels to define me before, and my guess is that you have as well.

I think from the few I mentioned above the one that did the most damage was the label of worthless.  I believed this label for many years.  It changed how I approached life, how I approached others, and how I approached myself.  But instead of writing about the mess that created for me, today, I would like to focus on something Lysa says in her book....

"A soul who believes she can't leave.....doesn't"

I can so relate to that statement because I found that when I felt so worthless, and felt that I didn't deserve anymore....I never tried to break free.  Lysa goes on to say that some prisons don't require bars, just the persons perception that they belong there.  That was so true for me....because until I started to realize my own worth, and my worth to God...I never tried to change things, even in my mind.  I was very much a prisoner to myself.

Lysa goes on to tell us how to break free from the labels.  I think that this is also very important to go through the steps to do this, because until we start to quit being defined by our labels, we will never be what God has called for us to be.

I am looking forward to seeing what other things Lysa has to share in her book.  Hoping today that you start to see the labels by which you define yourself.

   

Prayer for 2013

As I was being intentional and writing out my prayers this morning (one of my goals for the New Year).  I wrote this:

I ask you Father, to make this a year of truly living and enjoying life, as you would have me to enjoy it.  I also ask that you would bring me closer to you.  Help me to soak in your word and make it change my life.  Help me to leave the comfort zones and really live for you.

Now my prayer was a bit longer and included more personal stuff.  But this one part really sums up a lot of my desires for this new year.