Picking up where I left off

Michael Jordan once said "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

These last couple of weeks I've encountered some roadblocks. With the exception of this past weekend, I've stayed very true to my eating plan. I've exercised at least five days per week - often six or seven times. But I haven't read nor blogged. And I haven't moved past the plateau of 15 pounds lost.

As I'm learning, I need all three to be successful. Jesus said "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5.

So, I must now decide how to move forward. Do I pick up where I left off? And just eliminate these past weeks? Do I just pretend the last few weeks didn't matter? Do I try to read and back fill? Or do I just skip it and start today? Since my plan seemed to have hit the pause button, I'll go back to where I left off and let the next post be Day 42 - the start of weeks 7 and 8.

Another reason to pick up where I left off is because of my Ry. We were in church ten days ago, and our Pastor encouraged us to continue to seek the Holy Spirit. Ry leaned over after the sermon ended and told me that his Bible has some questions at the bottom of most pages, and that he would like to read it - starting in Genesis and going through to the end, and answer the questions as he goes. I told him that he had a great idea. (I truly believed that the Holy Spirit was prompting him). By Wednesday, we had not yet started our reading, a fact of which he reminded me. So we sat down together. He opened his Bible and read the first chapter of Genesis. I read day 56 - which is where I would have been. (More on that later).

Later that evening, I see Ry walking down the hallway with a screwdriver. "Hey" I called out. "What are you doing?" He said that he was switching out the light switch cover. This past summer, at VBS, Sue (the craft person) organized a craft to support that day's lesson - that God created day and night. It was a light switch cover. The top diagonal was dark blue with glow-in-the-dark stars, and the bottom diagonal was glow-in-the-dark yellow. He switched out his light switch cover to enforce what he read that day. Good things happen when we search for the Holy Spirit.

As for my reading, the old testament reading was in the book of Leviticus, which talks about things that make you clean and unclean. Today's lesson was on semen emmisions and menstrual periods. I thought, well, I can't go from Moses being found in the Nile to bodily emmisions without providing the back story. Hence, my choice to pick up where I left off.