y weekly weigh-in revealed a six ounce gain. While I’m not thrilled with the gain, I am thrilled that, for the first time that I am aware of, I made a batch of brownies without a sample or lick of the spoon! Small steps to celebrate!
The weekly nugget God revealed to me is, the need for me to take the good with the bad.
Take the good with the bad.
I have realized I have had unrealistic expectations of myself and others. Basically, my expectations have been too high and not realistic. I’ve written about expectation management the past few weeks. I naively thought I should accept only the good with the good. I also naively thought it would take just a couple of months to lose 70 pounds. But that is distortional thinking. As a believer in Christ, I believe good things will happen to me. However, when bad things come, as they do in life, I need to not act like God’s aborted His Plan for me. I need to keep pressing and perservere.
God illustrated his nugget through a new hobby my sons and I have picked up…bird feeding and watching. We have two bird feeders. The hummingbird feeder is located on our second level deck. We enjoy the hummingbirds as they drink in the sweet sugar water and fly away.
Off our first level, we keep another bird feeder where we observe grackles, cardinals, sparrows, red winged black birds, humming birds and a few other we’ve not yet identified in our bird book.
A couple weeks ago, we even had a turkey vulture on our neighbor’s roof (that was a little creepy!)!
Daily, we enjoy our feathered friends, their different colors, personalities and habits. But upon examination of our back fence, again I realized my need to take the good with the bad.
We enjoy the birds beauty! I do not enjoy the periodical fence wash-downs from the “forget me not” packages that our winged friends leave! And so I need to take the good with the bad…
Similarly, with my weight loss journey, I need to take the good (weeks of weight loss) and the bad (weight gain or plateaus). The good and the bad all equate to something called life!
I also see the need to take the good with the bad in all areas of my life to include: my marriage, relationships, family, church, neighbors, work and with myself. The bad days have helped me define what a good day looks like.
And so I need to take the good with the bad, because the ups and downs are all part of the journey and life.
Are you taking the good with the bad?
