Happy Monday friends!
I wanted to take a minute and tell you all that have
stuck with me through my quiet periods how much I appreciate all of you!
Life with 3 teenagers is so busy, hectic, and
crazy. I felt like making time to blog
was becoming a chore. So I decided to
just take a short break. I am back now
and have a brain full of ideas and thoughts I want to share with all of you!
I have also really been thinking about “why” I wanted to
blog and how my “why” has changed over the past few years. When I started, I was dead focused on
weight-loss and dieting. I was excited
to share those weekly numbers with all of you.
I still think that is important, but my primary focus shifted when I
started gaining some weight back and realized a very important fact; I HATED
myself! Like not just a little bit, but
in every way imaginable. I had lost over
100 pounds and I still did not like who I was.
Maybe weight loss was not only what I needed to feel better about
myself. Now, I know it is important to
eat right and move more in order to be physically healthy and I am still
working on that. But what would be the
point of losing the 288 pounds I want to lose and still not like who I am,
still not want to leave my house, and still wait on something else to make me
feel good?
So this blog is going to be morphing alongside my
changing “why.” I think it is so
important to learn to love ourselves so that we can take care of
ourselves. I will tell you right now
that I do not have all or even a few of the answers to this, but I want to
share what I am discovering along the way.
During the month of September, I had the privilege of
teaching the 3rd-6th graders in out KidZone on Sunday
mornings. So much of the material we
covered was so relevant to what I was working on. It was definitely a God thing!
Our verse this month was from Psalms 139: 13-16 (MSG):
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
What powerful
words. Knowing that I was formed together
piece by piece by God makes a huge impact on how I view myself.
Yesterday,
we were discussing how God created man in His own image. We were put on Earth for a specific
purpose. And the end of that passage it
says that:
God looked over everything he had made;
it was so good, so very good! Genesis 1:31 (MSG)
it was so good, so very good! Genesis 1:31 (MSG)
He made
me, He made you and HE SAID THAT IT WAS GOOD! If God says it is good, then how
can I say I don’t like myself, something He created in His image?
We were
not created by some random chance, some flipping of a coin. It is time that we learn to love the person
God created us to be!
I hope
you all have an amazing week!
Sending
you love and healthy wishes!
Keep
Losing,
Kari
