Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Proverbs 26:11 "As a dog returns to it's vomit so a fool repeats his folly." Let me say, "woof, woof." Yet again I find myself eating puke - so to speak. In effort to walk into health and balance I knew that I needed to both get up earlier for some QT and be more balanced in my eating/drinking habbits. Yet this morning I found myself dead tired cause I stayed up too late and this afternoon I polished off my 3rd Dew of the day. What the heck. One of you (DVA) responded to one of the earlier blogs with some really great comments about forming good new habbits and making that the focus as opposed to focussing on getting rid of old bad habbits. After my vomit lunch I see that to walk down the path to freedom I need a new habit of going to bed much earlier so I can get up early and to replace the sweet nectar of heaven - I mean Mt. Dew - with something more healthy.

But my goodness, new habits are hard to come by. A large part of me would rather stay up to the wee hours and sleep right through my devo time. A large part of me would rather live on pizza and pop. A large part of me would rather be lazy and never move.

Yet there is a part of me that wants to steel myself against such things and walk into the freedom that comes from sacrifice. After all eating vomit sucks.

What about you? What does your vomit look like? What habbits do you need to put into place.

It is a good thing we don't have to have it all perfected by Thursday. And it's good to walk through life with you men.

Peace and Joy
Rob

2 comments:

  1. Preach it brother.

    My habit formation is similar to yours. I had hoped to get up and exercise this morning, but the evening storms convinced my head that it needed the sleep. What would it have felt like if I had actually gotten up and done the work in spite of my drowsiness? Would that have trickled into my eating habits? Into my ability to encourage others?

    Instead I convinced myself that I could do it later this evening... and thus postponed the habit and all of its potential benefits.

    Now to follow through with that promise. I'd rather not make procrastination a habit:-)

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  2. I thought your breath smelled a little bitter today. Scope always helps.

    The old self was transformed by the world and its lies and deceptions. Believing the truth about our condition and believing the truth about balanced living - soaked in Grace...will renew the mind.

    Hang in there bro - your freedom will lead to others freedom.

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