Finding the Strength From Within

I have been struggling alot lately with weight loss and becoming healthy. I struggle with the fact that God gave us the ability to make such wonderful foods, does he not want us to enjoy them. But then I start to think again. Yes he does want us to enjoy things. He also gave us a wonderful tool called self control. Something that we have to learn how to use in our daily lives. He gave us this tool because he wants us to experience all that life has to offer us.

With that he lent us our body. This body is for us to experience life with. A beautiful gift. One to touch and hold our children. To hear the beautiful song of a bird singing. To speak the wonderful words he has taught us. To see the beautiful flowers that are in bloom. We need to take care of it. It is hard to do that because taking things for granted is something that is done with almost everything in life. Taking care of what we have is something that is not done as often as it should be.

We have been blessed with the ability to make choices. To control our destiny. We have so many great abilities. We have minds that have allowed us to solve the biggest mysteries. We are continuing to do that each and every day. Finding new medicines for different illnesses. Curing cancer. Saving the smallest of babies and allowing them to live full, happy lives. With these choices we need to find the strenght that we have in our soul to get up and to take care of ourselves.

The biggest setback is time. We have so much to do that time is something that we feel we don't have enough of. It is the biggest reason people don't go to the gym or do exercise. We all have the same amount of time. From the mom that seems to have everything in place to the successful business person. The key is knowing how to manage your time so that you can achieve all of your goals.

My favorite time quote = "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Children are such a Blessing

Today I was finishing fixing breakfast for my son and I and getting ready to sit down. The morning has been very hectic. The baby godzilla (my youngest son) tried to take his brother's cup and in the process got a bloody nose. Then he fell and scraped his hand. And to boot he did not sleep well last night because of the fact that he is teething, and super crabby. He has had a bad morning. King Kong (my oldest son) is in the why stage and is driving me crazy most of the day.

Well breakfast was finally done so I sat down and was looking forward to eating my breakfast. I have been teaching King Kong to pray before meals. He does it sometimes, but mostly will just sit there quietly. Today he looked at me and said mommy, we forgot to pray. How humbling. I can't believe that he took the tradition that I have been working so hard to get as apart of meals for the family and is taking it in his heart. I feel so blessed that he would think that is important to remind me.

As much as this morning has been crazy, it has been a great morning. I am so blessed to have two very active children, but childre that love me and that love being kids. I pray each day that they will grow up to be good people. Things like that make me think, that it is a possibility, that they will be great people.