For Women Only: An Ordinary Woman's Diet, Fitness, Weight and Beauty Log and Diary: So much to say, so little time

For Women Only: An Ordinary Woman's Diet, Fitness, Weight and Beauty Log and Diary

I want to glorify Christ in my body, and I am learning how to do that. My name means "womanly," but what does that mean? When I became a new wife and Christian, I went on a mission to understand Biblical womanhood, focusing on her from the inside. In more recent years, as my body succumbed to the pull of glutony, gravity and aging, I am focusing as well on my physical appearance. I am learning how God would have me live as a beautiful woman (and aren't we all?) in this world for His glory.

Monday, March 06, 2006

So much to say, so little time

I'm going to LA Weightloss today.

I haven't exercised in 5 days. I feel new leg muscles in my upper thighs from all the workouts earlier this year.

I want to take my body to a new level where it hasn't been since I was in my early 20's, because I want to buffet my body and make it my slave (St. Paul's words). I don't want to be like Essu who thought he was dying because he missed a meal and sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. I want to value the spiritual, the eternal over the physical. I want to live life on a different plane.

This, my friends, my self, I can not do myself. I am asking God to lift me there.

2 Comments:

At 8:36 PM, Kimber said...: I am so with ya girl!!!

I have been thin most of my life, until the last 4 years (after my Dad died I put on more weight than I care to admitt :(

But, now, I am determined like you, to be more like Paul and less like Essu!!!

I started exercising again (which I love when it is done!!) and started keeping a food journal!!

I will be back to see how you are doing - as I could use encouragement to hang in there at times too :)

We can do this, especially with God's help!!!!
At 9:59 PM, An Ordinary Christian said...: Thank you!

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Name: An Ordinary Christian

Location: Los Angeles,, California, United States

I am an "ordinary Christian". In this world I may be, as all of God's children, extraordinary (Gen 1:27). In Christ I can do extraordinary things (Phil 4:13). But I like to identify myself as an ordinary Christian because I want to serve Christ according to the pleasure of His will, as His bondservant, as a slave, one owned by her Master. As such, every extraordinary thing I may do in Christ is standard fare, expected and a reasonable service of worship. With my view of Christ on my cross, I do not evaluate my service according to my own judgment. I do not choose to think of myself more highly than I ought, but rather I want to think of myself with sober judgment (Rom 12:3). Anything good I do is by the grace of Christ given me. I have no ability to measure what I do or don't do. I desire for my eye to be single and good. This is why I am an ordinary Christian. After all, Paul called himself "chief of sinners." Is it anything unreasonable to be known as an ordinary Christian?

For Women Only: An Ordinary Woman's Diet, Fitness, Weight and Beauty Log and Diary

Monday, March 06, 2006

So much to say, so little time

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