Yesterday was a bad day for the munchies. As we watched TV, Linda decided that she was going to have a snack, and then another one and when she brought a third one in the living room, I asked for some of it (popcorn, that is). Now, I try my best, but, OH, HOW GOOD THOSE LITTLE WHITE POPPED THINGS SMELLED!!!! Fell off the wagon yesterday, but today is another day!!! I guess that I will have to be more careful today and anticipate her snack needs. Perhaps I will just have to watch HER, so that I can anticipate HER needs, so that they don't become MY NEEDS!!! So, we come to the picture. Bad news!!! If I wanted to continue to attend weight watchers, I think I would find another meeting to go to. This one just has too much temptation associated with it. Face it, we all have things that are harder to resist than others, but we must do the best we can. Consider this 1st Peter passage for a moment...
1 Peter, Chapter 2
1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Because it is contained in Scripture,
“Behold,*n1 I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,
“The stone which the builders rejected,
has become the chief cornerstone,”
8 and,
“a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 10 who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
“Behold,*n1 I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient,
“The stone which the builders rejected,
has become the chief cornerstone,”
8 and,
“a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 10 who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Look, we all screw up!!! I did, just yesterday!!! The thing is... not to keep doing it; not to follow a pattern of weakness, but to do the right thing!!! Like the situation in the picture, find a way out (another meeting place)... do something different and do not blow it again. Today, I am going to have that extra piece of fruit for my second breakfast, and enjoy an extra large bowl of cabbage soup AFTER I have used up my points. And I hope to do it late enough in the day to avoid the "treats" of the evening. Anyway, THAT IS THE PLAN!!!