When I drive past the amazing bakery at Super 1
Foods and resist the urge to purchase a dozen hot apple fritters, I don’t lose
5 pounds.
If life were fair, I would loose weight -- simply for resisting temptation.
Reality is, when I drive past the amazing bakery at
Super 1 Foods and I get downwind of their bakery exhaust and I catch a whiff of
their tantalizing pastries, I gain 3 pounds.
The reality is, I don’t even have to eat it to gain weight?
Why is that?
Last month I fell off the wagon and ate a pizza
before bed. I was sure I would pack on
the pounds and my Diabetes would go into “coma status”.
The next morning I hopped on the scales and…. I had
lost 2 pounds and my blood sugar was “average” for my morning testing.
Why is that?
Recently my wife and I were in Spokane at a
restaurant for lunch. In an attempt to
eat “healthy” (whatever that means), I ordered a “Cobb Salad” (whatever that
is). After I got the plate of random odd
looking stuff, my dear wife mentioned that the calorie count for the Cobb Salad
was terribly high. So then I was stuck
feeling guilty for eating something – I didn’t even like. I understand feeling guilty for eating a hot
apple fritter – because there is a reward.
But feeling guilty for eating a salad is simply twisted and wrong.
Why is that?
My type 2 Diabetes confuses me to no end.
In the mornings, I need to eat sugars or I get light
headed, shaky and stupid. In the afternoons, I need to avoid sugars because
they make my blood sugar spike, making me light headed, shaky and stupid. So that reasoning suggests at some point
around noon, I am BOTH hypoglycemic (blood sugar to low) and hyperglycemic
(blood sugar to high).... and no, I have no idea if I am light headed, shaky and stupid or if the opposite is true because the two disease symptoms offset each other.
Why is that?
When God is
blessing me and life is going my way, I am 110% sure that a spiritual downturn
is in my forecast. In fact, the higher
the mountain top experience I am having, I can be assured that there will be a
valley of direct proportions just around the corner.
No, I am not being a pessimist. I believe the mountain top experiences
prepare me for the valleys. My soul heals on the mountain top. And my faith grows in the valleys. Without mountain
tops, I would burn out. Without
valleys, I would remain an untested adolescent.
Face it, if you were to remain basking on the sunny
mountain top all the time, you would never see any need to rely on God. However, when you are in the valley and you
are in the deep end of the pool and you are going down for the 3rd
time, it makes sense to recognize God as our only Savior and safety.
Why is that?
“The
Father who knows all hearts
knows
what the Spirit is saying,
for
the Spirit pleads for us believers
in
harmony with God’s own will.
And
we know that God causes everything
to
work together for the good of those
who
love God and are called
according
to his purpose for them.”
Romans
8:27-28
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