A neat thing happened yesterday when I was in the grocery store.
As you know in my last post or so- I mentioned that I had started
walking. Well, I was going along in the grocery store and certian
old friends from the shelves started "waving" at me. Waves of
temptations from my old friend "Little Debbie" you know she
makes those awsome little brownies with the chopped up nuts on
top. Then I ran into the chip aisle..oh mercy..I grabbed a bag of
Cheetos for the kids and took off before my eyes could catch the
Doritos! Then as I'm thinking let's get some...I caught myself
thinking (not talking aloud) I can't eat that I have to go walking
in a little while or I did all that walking I'm not going to blow it
for that! Not that my discipline is strong but for now it's a
steady go.
I've thought back today on our last Ladies Night at church. We
are gearing up for our next Bible study and we wanted the
night to center around getting focused. I heard Nicki at
Three Girly Girls doing one of her Bible study podcast. She
was talking about filling containers with the wrong things.
We took the examples and made a short skit out of it. We
put clothes in the trash can instead of the clothes basket,
trash in a flower vase, and a fish in a coffee pot of water.


So many times we do the same thing in our lives. We fill our lives
full of things like....worry, stress, food, depression, bitterness, anger, ect.


For me these are a few of the things I pick up first. Instead of picking up
my Bible, putting in a praise cd or hitting my knees in prayer.


It's time to empty out the things that have drifted in and don't belong.
It's time to fill up with the Bread of Life and drink deeply from the
Living Water....so we can produce the Fruit we were intended to bare.