Walking in Sonlight

Shadows above me, Shadows below me, All along the hills and vales that I traverse. But there is one holy holy King and leader and He never ever lets me down. EVER. And He has provided me and all of His children light, and that comes from Jesus and I praise Him evermore. Thank You Lord for You immeasurable love. You are a holy and majestic Father.May we, all of Your children, walk in Your Son's light always.

DIET OR LIFE STYLE?

I am on the 21 day transformation. At first I thought of it as boot camp, restricting me from bread, chocolate, sodas, potatoes, corn, and some other things. As time has gone by I think I am beginning to realize that yes this is boot camp for a very different reason. Reigning in and practice take discipline and that means we have to do this in all areas in which our lives have been out of control. Whether it's food or alcohol or sex.... whether it's in making choices to do or not do recreational drugs, or porn, or whatever will distract one from God.  So regardless of whether our thinking is that we are dieting, in actuality it is practice for when we are forced to make choices that may mean reigning oneself back in for another period of time. I took piano for 13 years, and mastery of most of the music took practice and time and mostly discipline to obey and do as instructed by the teacher. Food choices are the same way. Am I eating this way because I want to lose weight or because I want to be healthy. Do I exercise because I want to strengthen my muscles or because "Teacher said so"? Either way the choice is the individual's choice. But it is a choice between legalism and freedom. God made us free to choose and to know what is best for us and what we just shouldn't touch. Thanks be to God for His love and grace.

Love

I have from time to time seen love in my mom's kindness toward me. Which makes me wonder if she has an evil twin. But what then is true love. Is it unconditional or it it decided by a child's mistakes and falling down scraping his/her knee? Or is it the "I'm proud of you" even when the child fails miserably? May God show us this answer, it oi not easyto say forgiveness comes in many many forms, even unexpected and certainly unwarranted. May God bless us that we understand one another.

FREEDOM

And so begins my first week of retirement. I am free to practice veterinary medicine and am doing so in the form of petHelper, I am free to teach if I so desire, and free to help my mom in the last years of her life however long that is. It has been an interesting week, laying some ground rules with my mom that she will have to obey and this she knows. She has become dependent and demanding as a two year old and what I have to wrap around my head is that she is a grown woman and is actually quite lucid, lucid enough to still look after her finances, lucid enough to follow football, and lucid enough to wash and dress and function in the real world. She is 92 and with that has come fraility and falls. But it has not decreased her mental capacity and her desire to be independent. I can only hope I have those genes when I am her age.