Yesterday, my friend, Kaia, sent me this link and I thought it was just too cool not to share! You can create and personalize any type of the following charts:
Enjoy spreading the chart-goodness through your home and community! 
Taking the edge off…it’s looked different, in different stages of my life.
As a little girl, I took the edge off with temper tantrums…and made my family pay for my unhappiness by bouncing my pigtails up and down in the same pattern as my stomped foot, with the best “Humph!” I had in me.
As a college student, I took the edge off with obscene quantites of poor quality beer, many times from a community plastic cup. It’s no wonder I have germ “issues” today…
As a woman, I took the edge off with cigarettes, nasty cigarettes that helped claim my mother’s life and I smoked em’ anyway.
As a cop, I took the edge off with gallons of coffee, diet coke and attitude…oh, the attitude, I had it in spades. Well, typing “had” seems a bit extreme!
As a post-military veteran, who no longer had a weight requirement to meet, my edge cutter was food, food and more food. I would have never been found offending a buffet line by visiting it just once.
Today, I’m a woman that is no longer in hot pursuit of growing up, or obtaining a degree or catching the next criminal…no, I’m in hot pursuit of God. That may sound like a cheesy Christian type of thing to type, but it’s the truth. I’ve tried many versions of doing life my way…and I’ve ended up frustrated.
Well, I’ve been frustrated again because food still has a powerful pull on me.
Unlike many times in my past, I stepped outside of me and got help. Many of you know that I joined Weight Watchers. I’m in my fourth week and so far have lost a little over five pounds. As I limited my food portions to meet Weight Watcher requirements, I’ve been edgier. Like PMS-marries-Sybil-and-have-demonic-offspring-type-edgy.
I’m feeling a lot more feelings these days and I won’t “medicate” with anything but God, God’s people and the Truth. I’ve tried the substitutes and only want the real thing. God.
God takes the edge off.
As you’ve seen played out in my life, the enemy always offers a substitute, but the effects are destructive. God takes the edge off.
Sound too simple?
Well, let me ask, “WHY make it more complicated?”
Will you today, consider opening an area of your life that you’ve allowed a substitute in? Will you invite God in?
“I like the color babe, it looks great!” The Finkster noticed over our family breakfast. Not sure if he noticed the box in the trash or the fact I didn’t have Don King like bed head at breakfast – but either way, he noticed.
“Thanks babe, it’s part of the chocolate series,” I less-gray-fully stated.
“You ate a whole bunch of chocolate just to look like that?” inquired Dave’s oldest offspring, Jake.
Self, ignore the statement of Dave’s oldest offspring…
(Sometimes and in some moments – ownership needs to be shared…
“No babe, chocolate is brown, and the hair color I use, is part of the chocolate series because it’s different shades of brown. Get it?”
“Ohhh….”
Which reminded me of a funny statement that seemed far too appropriate. My friend Jo put on her cell phone home page, “I could give up chocolate, but I’m not a quitter!”
Amen sister…both my hair and stomach say, “AMEN!”
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