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It’s Working
It’s working! My HCG Diet Discipline has delivered all I had hoped, plus more. I’m on day 17. I’ve lost 16 pounds. My clothes have stopped tugging around my waste. I walk with a more relaxed, swinging gate. My lower back has ceased that exhausting pinch that came from carrying too much weight in the front, like being pulled forward by a heavy wheelbarrow. Friends say my skin glows. And I just feel lighter. Continue reading
Feeling with Food
Day 13 of my HCG Diet Journey, and I’m still following my discipline. But not without some tears. I’ve had a few weepy days. That’s not unusual (happens every month). But, because I’m choosing to limit my food, these tears … Continue reading
Evil Shmeevil
In response to Minnowspeaks’ recent blog on “What is the original of evil,” I thought I would post a poem I wrote a few years back called, “My Captain Has Already Won.” At the time I wrote the poem, I had been around traditional Christianity for quite a while and had become, well, to put it bluntly, disgusted with the repetative, rhetorical reasoning I heard over and over about evil… Continue reading
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Crossroads
My journey began in the fall of 2006. One night in church when God brought me to the crossroads.
I really didn’t want to be there. It was the third time I had heard the sermon that weekend. I just caught the last 10 minutes (AGAIN!) because I was waiting for my husband to get off from nursery duty. As I listened to the preacher from behind the back row, I sat with arms crossed. I stretched my legs out and rested my feet on my heels in resistant boredom.
Then a picture pops into my head… Continue reading
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