It is Day 4 of No Sweets May for me. I've been blah and cranky. Things keep coming up (like my screaming one year old, a disappointment, an old memory, a pound lost) that I would normally reach for chocolate or reward myself with dessert. I've been barely scraping by this week on my own strength until I read this today in Made to Crave, "If we fail to understand how to fill our souls with spiritual nourishment, we will forever be triggered to numb our longings with temporary physical pleasures." Another lightbulb went off: I have been numbing myself with substance that cannot answer what I'm truly longing for. So what am I suppose to be doing? Instead of filling my body with garbage, I should be filling it with the fruits of my Maker. Psalm 107:9 says, "For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things." I am definitely longing and hoping to be filled with good things!
Besides learning about spiritual nourishment, I've been reading up what my body truly needs to function. I've gained some great insight from those "eating clean" and considering how to adopt some of those practices into our family. Anyone out there eating clean?
Lamentations 3:22-25 "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;this mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. 24 "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him." 25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him."
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