Monday Coffee Talk

Good Monday morning everyone! Time to rise and shine! It's coffee time! Our challenge today is to identify yourself. What does that mean? It means that we all have an identity. Do you know who you are? Who are you really? Do you have and know your true self? Since WLS, MANY of us have had to rediscover who we REALLY are. Finding the new us is sometimes overwhelming, yet it is pretty awesome. With everything I have been through, I've began to find and see the new me. I'm liking what I see too. How bout you? What's your identity? Who are you? Like what you see? If not, change it! I don't mean go out and change your birth certificate. I'm talking about finding the you that you have always wanted to be. The you that was hidden behind obesity. The new you that has shown forth since you've lost the weight. We can let God change us in an awesome way. Our idnetity changed the day we accepted Chirst as our saviour. KNOW WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST! You are risen with HIM and seated in Heavenly places. You are HIS child! Recognize your identity in Christ. Recognize the spiritual authority you have in Him also. We were made in the image of Christ so our identity is known in Him. Know the identity HE wants for you. Who's up? What cha sipping on? Me? I'm sipping on some wonderful White Russian coffee. Man! It's good. This is Kahlua and Cream mixed. Gotta love it. I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Monday! Go out smiling and grinning! Randall

Randall - seriously - you are NOT drinking kahlua at 3:47 AM - are you? Please tell me it's something else! My identity is hidden with Christ - and yet, He gives me His Spirit to shine. I'm in a new job, and I hoping that I will shine His light in this darkness. Nobody here knows about my WLS and that's weird sometimes. But, there is a lot of darkness here, so I will shine as best I can! This little light of mine...I'm gonna let it shine! Have a good one! - Carolyn

Not actual kahlua. Just the flavored coffee and it was 5:47. 2 hour time difference I guess. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed Tuesday! Randall

Interesting topic. My therapist and I have been talking about my identity issues for a very long time, even as recently as Friday. I must seek the Word of God to discern who I really am, because the enemy wants me to think I am a loser, and a terrible mother. I will be meeting my children's stepmother in a few weeks at a baby shower for my daughter. I am dreading it for a lot of reasons. She was always thin, and she never had mental health issues. Now, she also has the man I loved and swore I would live with for the rest of my life. I feel very inferior to this woman and I don't even know her. I shared this with my future daughter-in-law and she told me "Rosa is just another woman." The enemy wants me to think I am a horrible person for losing my marriage and being fat most of my adult life, and so many other flaws. It is such a battle of the mind. God bless. Hugs, Trish