As I sit in a coffee shop, lap top in hand, I'm thinking about the group of ladies I just left. Women from different age groups, hair color, and pant sizes- yet we share one common bond--we want to be free from the traps and heartache of bondage to food compulsion.
The ladies had a different look in their eyes today then they have the previous 6 weeks that we have met and shared time together. They are now fully aware that their lives weren't so carefully covered in Saran Wrap as they thought. It's all unraveling- and you know what? It's a good unwrapping!
When we finally come to the end of our excuses, blandness, and numbing- we can move towards freedom. In the gospel of John Jesus asks a man that has been 38 years in some kind of infirmity (most scholars think he was paralyzed) "Do you wish to get well?" The man quickly answers that he does want to get well, but there are some things keeping him from getting there. Jesus then profoundly tells him to get up, take up his mat, and walk. Essentially, Jesus tells him to stop laying on the dirty mat that has defined your thinking, and get up and walk towards a new life.
From tears to treasure...this is how God can change our lives when we choose to get up, take up our mats, and walk.
May you see your beauty as God does today.
Blessings...
Gari
From tears to treasure...this is how God can change our lives when we choose to get up, take up our mats, and walk.
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