"Well my team lead bought us all lunch today and in my bag was a roast beef sandwich and two hot dogs and i took 1 bite of one hot dog and tried to eat one of the roast beef sandwiches and didn't like it so I threw it away and these are the leftovers. You're welcome to the rest if you want but you can't have them tonight...."
"ummmmm okay.......I'll take something for lunch then"
So I took the roast beef sandwich for lunch and took a Ziploc bag of carrots and called it good....When I came home I threw the rest of the fast food bag out, because I LOVE hot dogs...one of the grossest things in the world and I LOVE them. I had to throw them out because I would have eaten both of them. I was so excited to work out today I came home threw on my work out clothes and headed out the door, only to get to our apt complex gym to find a guy working out on my elliptical machine! Now you may be thinking really Anndee, really? There are other machines. But actually, no there isn't. Our gym is small that there are only 2 elliptical, two treadmills, a bike and a small weight lifting machine. I was so sad, but decided that I would try the other machine. I gave it a try and couldn't get passed 15 minutes. Not because I didn't want to, but because the machine was different than the one that I had been using and caused me to get tired more. Maybe that's a good thing?
I ended my 15 mins on that machine and decided I would walk briskly for 45 mins on the treadmill. I walked fast for awhile and then thought I could possibly start jogging and see what happened. I jogged for 15 mins! I have never been able to do that before! I was proud...I ended up stopping after that and called it a good work out. I think I failed my 500 calorie rule, but hey I'm just starting out. I don't want to get burned out too quickly. However, my calorie intake today was probably more than what I needed. Ugh.....I"ll get there.
weigh in: 233.4
2 pieces multi grain bread (sadly with butter): 280
arby's roast beef sandwich, plain no cheese: 320
10 baby carrots: 32
popcorn: 200
4 tablespoons butter: 400
total:1,232
calories burned: 300
for a grand total of 932
Speaking of a new direction in my life another new direction that I am taking is getting baptized at my church on February 10th. I'm really excited about this part of my life and with all these changes happening I feel as though I'm in a way being cleansed. That may be a weird word to use but I couldn't think of another word. Anyways, the day of the baptism we share a testimony of faith. The cool thing about this is our church does a video testimony of faith and then share it on the projector screen on that Sunday. In preparation for my video testimony I have started to write down what I'm going to say about my story and why I'm getting baptized. I thought that maybe I would write it down on here. It's still a work in progress...
When
people started asking me my story on how I came to know the Lord, I was always
nervous and afraid to share that I didn’t have some amazing story. Whenever I
was in a room where someone shared their story they always had an amazing story
where they were so fallen and headed for the life of no return and through some
miracle, found God. And of course there was always a verse that stuck out to
this person. I wanted that type of story, to make people feel a certain way. So
I would embellish my story to make it more interesting than growing up in a
Christian home always knowing the lord and accepting Christ at u-turn night at
bible camp. If my bible was at hand I would quickly flip through the pages to
try and find a verse that I liked and sort of tie that in too. Every time I was
asked to share I added more and more. I was so ashamed of my story.
It wasn’t
until a couple of years ago when I started to realize that no matter what your
story is, the most important part is the fact that I have accepted Jesus in my
life and realizing that I am a sinner and through the grace of God, I’m free. Whether
always knowing him or following the path of no return and having some
televangelist preach to you over late night t.v it doesn't matter how you got there as long as you found that for yourself. My simple story, is amazing and I am fortunate to have found God
this way. I’m not saying that there haven’t been stumbles and doubts, I’m
human, and I have a feeling that will always be there. But those stumbles and
doubts were a lot easier to stomach, knowing that God had a better plan in
mind, and that losing your mother was a blessing so that she wasn’t suffering anymore. I
don’t think I would feel that way if I didn’t have God in my life.
SO here I
am 10 years later, and I’m sure you’re all wondering why I haven’t been
baptized. I asked myself the same exact thing! The idea of getting baptized has
always been in the back of my mind and I would always shoo it away and
reassure myself that since I was baptized as an infant that was good enough. It
wasn’t until we started getting involved in this church almost a year ago that
I started to realize that I have been long overdue. I was really glad when Pastor
Rick started his sermon series on Direction, because that really hit the nail
on the head for me. I've had the intentions but those intentions weren't going to matter in the grand scheme of things if I didn't act upon them. I realized I needed to start practicing what I preach to my Ozone
kids.
So here I am, very excited to be getting baptized, sharing my wonderful story and getting baptized by Pastor Brett. I'm not sure if he knows but Pastor Brett was the one that got us going to this church. There were a lot of other factors, but it was mainly him e-mailing and contacting us for Arts and Sports camp. If he hadn't done that, I don't think I would be in the place right now. I wouldn't have been involved in these ministries and I wouldn't have heard the series on direction.
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