One Step Back - Two Steps Forward

I heard once that life is like a spinning plate act. Our goal is to keep all of the plates spinning at the same time. When one starts to slow you rush to it and give it the attention it needs.

Some plates spin easier than others - some are larger and some smaller. At different times in my life I have to spend more time on some and less on another - Just when I get some plates nicely spinning I have to dash off and give a different plate attention. Some women can spin so many more plates than I can - I watch them every Sunday with envy, but when I am watching their act my plates drop.

I have to stop spinning some plates because other plates are requiring more attention right now. This blog is one of the plates that I have to drop.

I have loved doing this. Thanks everyone for your love and support. I have been lifted by all of your comments - I have been edified by your examples. I have been amazed that you all have continued to read my ramblings. It has been so fun to have this invisible family to muse to and to renew my commitment to healthy living.

I truly know that without Heavenly Fathers help I could never have accomplished my goal to get healthy. I am constantly trying to keep my yoke on so that he will continually help me pull.

"Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be watchful unto prayer continually, that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil, that he may not overpower you..." Alma 34:39

Love,
Calamity

Happy One Hundred!

This is my 100th post, so with that thought I am going to tell you of some people that had they lived would be in their 100's. During the start of the depression my grandma and grandpa got married. They wed in the brides home and spent their first night together there as well. The bride has brothers, many of them, who thought a good joke was priceless.

The bed that grandma and grandpa were going to sleep in was complete with a fishing line attached to the end of their blanket, the other end attached to a fishing pole out the window held by her brothers. All during the night the blankets would slowly creep off of the newlyweds and go toward the window. At first the couple had no idea what was up and spent the better part of the night pulling up their blankets. Eventually they caught on and the line was severed but until then they had quite the evening.

In my journal I wrote when I was 16 I wrote of that experience and likened it to my young testimony. I said that sometimes when I am not noticing my testimony slips and that one day I hope that I will just be able to cut the lines that pull me away from the iron rod. It seems that everything the Book of Mormon tells me to remember I somehow manage to forget if I don't stay vigilant.

Of course I can liken that to my quest to stay healthy. I find myself forgetting my healthy new life. I say "It won't matter if I don't go out running today, or, Just one - no two krispy kremes, a box of chocolates, orange soda, cake and chocolate milk wont hurt just this once.

One thing that I find invaluable is my "Runners World" magazine, or the magazines and books that talk of others successes. By getting little tips and ideas I get back on my road that I need to be on. Believe me when I say the natural me would rather be on my bed with a good book and a bag of m&m's, I have to decide daily who I am going to be, and reading ways to be healthy is a big part of that decision.

Abraham speaks of his flight from Canaan and says "Therefore, eternity was our covering and our rock and our salvation..."(Abraham 2:16) Grandma and Grandpa had strings that kept them uncovered, once the strings were severed I am sure that their night was blissful. My strings that need to be severed are ignorance, justification, and not being equally yoked with the Savior. I am an emotional eater, if eternity can cover me with the peace I need I can then overcome trying to find peace through a large slice of cake. "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;" (D&C 121:7)