Day 11

Today is Thursday. Today is supposed to be my “don’t have much to do” day. Well that is not the truth today. My day started bright an early with a promise. However, this promise was not to me. . . this promise was to my husband. I had promised him taco salad for dinner. He has endured fish one to many nights and I felt sure he needed a pick me up. Honestly, he did not have to go on this journey with me. He was in no real need to lose any weight. He did not have to give up his fast food and chips and favorite snacks. However, he has and I figured I could do this for him. However, I also knew that both children had different events today and they both were on separate sides of the state line. Jes had ball practice in Va. and SAM had National Honor Society induction in NC. We all had haircuts before for we had to scramble to go our separate ways. So I did what most folks wouldn’t dream of doing. I got up this morning and cooked dinner before I went to work! Now please remember that I have said all along that the most important thing in doing this diet in my eyes was planning. Well getting taco salad for dinner without going to Taco Bell meant doing it before work. So as I did my morning reading I also cooked onions and peppers and browned turkey meat. After it was all done I let it cool and put it all back in the fridge for Kevin when he came home before practice. Well as luck would have it – he still didn’t have time to eat till he and I both got home after everyone’s events. So Taco Salad was cooked before 8 am and not eaten till after 8 pm. Oh well – no one went by Taco Bell or McDonalds or anything else like that. Just knowing dinner was there waiting made the waiting easier to bear.

I found something special today when glanced over a daily devotional that I missed reading yesterday (from being busy). The verse for yesterday was Proverbs 31:27. It truly made me laugh at myself and say “Well Lord I am there today and yesterday when I missed it”. This verse says “She watches over the activities of her household and is never idle.“ The NEVER IDLE thing sure did ring true to me. It also blessed my heart because the one thing I promised God that I wanted to do during this season of Lent was to be still and know Him. I wanted to read His word each day and slow down to focus on Him. This morning I felt guilty about not giving Him my full attention because I was cooking as I read. I read this verse about 20 minutes later and it was as if God was saying to me “Tina, I see you. I know that you are trying and I understand. Today even though you weren’t “still” you were “still in my will”. See Tina, right there in Proverbs 31:27. You were still in my will.” It was almost like I received a big hug! Now I know that He doesn’t want me cooking and saying I am being still with Him every morning but this morning I knew it was ok. This morning I was honoring Him by honoring my husband. God didn’t have to let me off the hook for not sitting still before Him but He loved me enough to show me this morning to comfort my anxious heart about it. Isn’t that amazing? Isn’t He Amazing! Just like the love of a Father!

So today was super busy but I managed to stay on course.

Here are my meals today: fruit smoothie, apple, salad with grilled tuna, few chunks of tuna (for snack), taco salad and 2nd helping of taco salad.

My exercise for today I squeezed in between haircut and dropping SAM off for National Honor Society practice and the actual ceremony. I did about 40 minutes of lifting weights.