Monday coffee talk

Good wonderful Monday morning everyone! Today is going to be the start of a wonderful week! I hope you are up, at 'em, and ready to make it the best day of the rest of your life! Today, our challenge is to "Have a VISION"! A vision seeing yourself at your best! Your best in every aspect of life. Your WLS, your job, your HOME, in YOUR FAMILY, in all areas of your life. If you don't have a vision for your life, you don't have anything to look forward to. Get a vision. See yourself at goal. See yourself living the best possible life you can. HAVE A VISION FOR YOU!!!! Proverbs 29:18 says "without a vision the people perish." God has a vision for each of us. Jer 29:11 let's us know that God has an expected end for us. Don't loose your destiny. Don't loose your vision. Grasp hold of it and go with it! Who's up this morning? What cha sipping on? I'm sipping on my regular Folger's with sweet-n-low and cream. Waking up the senses and getting this Monday going with a Vision! God bless you all and have a wonderful and blessed Monday! Randall

Good morning Randall! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, we did, especially at church. The childrens dept (grades 3-5) came back from camp and we had a wonderful worship service to show everyone else how children worship. I had the opportunity to go to camp and be a part of it. Oh, how I wish I would remember to worship like a child again. My vision for today is to constantly lift my children up in prayer, school just started. We have a high schooler now and also 8th and 4th grader. They are exposed to so many negative things in the world, but prayerfully they will be able to fight the devil. I also have a vision to be an encouraging wife to George (all that he is going through with his job and his dad). Our 18th anniversary is 8/20 and I have been truely blessed w/ a christian husband. Ok, ok, enough mushy, mushy... I am drinking reg coffee w/ chocolate & vanilla cream (low fat), w/ splenda. I hope everyone has a wonderful God filled day!!! Georgina

Good morning Randall I always feel uplifted on Mondays after spending time in Worship Sunday morning and Sunday evening, I am filled up spiritually and ready to face the week ahead. Yesterday we had our once a month special singing, just singing thats all, at the evening service and it was so uplifting. I accept your challenge I have been trying to envision my husband as a Christian for 38 years and continually praying for him and I will keep right on. He is a good man but never been interested in serving the Lord. The bible says a wife should try and win her husband by her chaste behavior and I keep trying to set a good example for him but sometimes I fall short. Thank you so much for challenging us. Hugs, Sandyd

Good morning all! It was a busy but fun weekend. We spent yesterday PM with friends from church. They invited us over for dinner. We really enjoyed getting to know them better. I am so grateful that my husband has connected with somebody. My dh is a bit shy and has a hard time making friends. We also went miniature golfing on Saturday evening. Had a fun time. I am visioning myself losing more weight. I am having a hard time believing that I will lose more. I fear getting to this point and just like everything else I have tried, the weight will start coming back. Well, I know that won't happen if I work at eating right and exercising and staying healthy. I just need to keep the vision of me reaching my goal in focus. Also, I vision myself growing in my prayer life. I recently was told that God wants me to give more. Not necessarily money, but it could be time, ministry, etc. Well, I was feeling that the Lord wants me to spend more time in prayer. I pray daily but usually it's while I am showering or in the car, etc. I really feel that the Lord wants me to get quiet, still and alone with Him more often, not just in the shower or car on the way to work. So I am seeing that vision and making it happen. My sister has her WLS this week. She is over 350 lbs and really wanted this surgery. It took her awhile to get through the approval process but that came through and Aug 9 is her "rebirth day" so to speak. I would appreciate y'alls prayers for her this week. Have a great day. Hugs, Robin

My vision is clouded right now. I feel like I'm struggling in many areas - and have become focused on the world, and not the Lord. I was so distracted at church yesterday morning - relationships, bills, etc. Then at church last night, I was in the nursery unexpectedly when the regular workers didn't show up till 20 minutes into the service, and then when I went into the service, I kept having bad dizzy spells. I'm feeling very downcast - and I know that I shouldn't. The Lord has blessed me abundantly. I am struggling with feelings of failure. I have a weird body and I lose for 2 weeks and then stalls for 2 weeks, and it's very frustrating. Also, my husband and I got into a stressful discussion about our car this weekend - a car I picked out last year that he is now saying was an unwise purchase... and it was, but we don't have $$$ to buy another. Then he said something about how the workers in the nursery probably talk about me behind my back - I'm the director of that ministry - and I know that they don't talk about me, because everyone in there loves the Lord with all their mind, body & soul. It's a great group! Honestly, since my husband suggested that we read the bible everyday together, I guess we've been under attack. Look at me - rambling on. So - my vision for today is to focus on the grace of God and the cross of our Lord Jesus. Psalm 130 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they tha****ch for the morning: I say, more than they tha****ch for the morning. I'm sippin on water - trying to bust this plateau... ~Carolyn

I slept in this morning and woke up at 1:00 pm EDT. I worked till after midnight four nights in a row and had to get up for a day shift job over the weekend. Yawn. Jeremiah 29:11 is a verse that got me through my divorce. It kept my head facing forward and focused on God's plan for my future. I claim it everyday. My vision is to be the healthiest, most joyful believer in the kingdom someday. I know I will be healthy in heaven, but I want it here as well. Drinking my black coffee with no sweetener. Hugs, Trish