Tuesday Coffee Talk

Good Tuesday morning everyone! Time to rise and shine! Gotta get up and get going! I was in bed by 7 last night. I guess everything just caught up with me. Allison spent the night with her friend Savanah and Torey was at work so after I tanned (for the cruise) I came back to the hotel room, got my shower, laid down and the next thing I knew it was 4:30 a.m.!!! WOW! Was I poopped or what? Guess the old body was saying TIME OUT! Our challenge today is to take inventory. Take inventory of the things in YOUR life that is important. What's more important to you today? God? Family? Health? LIVING? Material things? WLS? SELF? I don't know about you, but to me, it would have to be at this moment, LIVING and my children. After God above of course. We need to take inventory of our lives and define what really IS important. Get our priorities in order. Live according to them. Then everything else will fall into place. I'm learning so much these days. Ya see, I'm PREACHING to myself! Which IS a good thing! SO! Who's up? What cha sipping on? I'm sipping on some AWESOME Moose Munch coffee from Carmen this morning. You rock my friend! This Harry and David stuff is the bomb! I hope you have a great INVENTORY day today! God bless you all!! Randall

Good morning Randall...I have to let you know that I shared your story with many of my friends both churched and unchurched and I got the most touching emails from them and my Pastor's wife said your church and friends sound like our small fellowship here...love....I pray you are continually blessed by the Lord and that He uses the children of God to do it. I know He is faithful to complete that which He started in each of your lives and what He starts He finishes well! I love you Randall and pray you are given a time of refreshing with the Lord on the cruise. So I have been up since 5am this morning...couldn't sleep, praying for many needs of others who are hurting this week. I finished my first protein drink and vitamins and am now sipping on decaf with SF French Vanilla creamer. Have to stand outside today (Crossing Guard) ...brrrr cold here in SC. Have a blessed and glorious day. And priority? Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and ALL these other things shall be added unto you. In His love and grace, Joan M

I just finished a cup of coffee. I gulped it. But then I am pre-op. Every morning I pray that my motives will be pure, and that God will be glorified through my life. I work at putting God first. But, boy, I always come in a close second. I feel selfish. I want this surgery so much. I want my life back. I'm so tired of being tired. I had the strangest thoughts this morning. I was thinking that when I tried to convince myself and others that being my size was okay, I'd say that being thin only makes you thin. It doesn't make you rich, or happy, or loved, or lovable. But now I want to be a normal weight and I think to myself, "I'll be a better parent when I lose this weight." "I'll be a better Christian when I lose this weight." Have I gone completely crazy? Blessings, Jill

Jill as we await the surgery we think on many things and I know the enemy would love to make us stumble and make us think that this is all a pride thing and don't get me wrong it can be a pride thing but I know I was not happy and could not phisically minister to God's people the way I wanted at the weight I was. I deprived my daughter of many outings because I was unable to do them with her. This surgery not only helped me but helped my family, my ministries at church and in my neighborhood. I will always thank God for this miracle of new life spiritually adn now physically. I will pray for God's peace and clarity of thoughts. In His love, Joan M

Thank you so much Randall! My inventory can easily get out of order. Thank you for the reminder to make constant assesments of that! I'm drinking Folgers with cool whip light. Kim M.

I guess you might say I'm now closer to my two cups of cafe con leche w/splenda tomorrow morning....It's been a long day. I had an interview this morning at one of the hospitals in the Baptist Healthsouth System and I think it went well. If I am accepted into this special program I will start March 12. (I told my husband today that gives us enough time for a quick cruise....hint! hint!) I finally got the ladder in today and put away the boxes of Christmas decorations. This actually goes along with "taking inventory" because as DH and I wrapped each ornament we thought about the child or grandchild that made it, or the framed picture of grandparents who are in Heaven now. We talked about how special those simple things are. They may break or be gone tomorrow but we hope that what lives in our hearts and minds will remain until God takes us home. God bless Randall....have a good evening. ~Ruthanna

Hi Randall Love to you, Sandyd