For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Happy Independance Day to you all. Hope you are all doing well. Today we celebrate the birth of a nation with the signing of the Declaration of Independance in 1776. A nation built 'under GOD'...as 'In God We Trust'...A nation that is now in need of a lot of prayer with everything that has been going on in our country these days. When I was a little girl, we did 2 things at the beginning of every school day...first, we stood and recited The Lord's Prayer together...second, while still standing we recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country, the USA flag being on a pole in our classroom. We said yes Ma'am and no Ma'am to women and yes Sir and no Sir to men, repectfully. There was no such thing as shootings such as we hear about nowadays frequently, and we slept safely in our beds in our homes with the doors unlocked. America has come a long way from where she began...Is she still the same country she once was?
2 Chronicles 7:14 in the Bible tells us:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Hoping you are having a good day. Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
A little along and along...mindful of calories...telling myself that I don't have to eat the 'whole thing'....sometimes half a cupcake is just as good and filling as a whole one...and half the calories...I don't have to finish everything I start to eat if I am full enough...I don't like to waste anything, especially food...but to eat all of something because that is the current serving size (a lot of food items were much smaller serving sizes many years ago) is not always best.
I am down a little more today to 157. July is birthday month for me. Maybe I can get to 155 by July 26.
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Hope you are having a good day. Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
also, you wrote that you'd think you'd learned how to maintain weight on your comment back to me in previous entry, but, the truth is you do quite well at maintenance! weight is always variable, never will stay exactly the same all the time!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hope you are having a good day. Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 47 lbs lost so far, only 8 lbs to go!
Good point about the ease of putting on, but the struggle to take off! Yep!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends.
Thank you for your prayers for my very dear, sweet Aunt. She went to be with the Lord this week.
She was Mom's only Sister.
She was a very loving, sweet, Christian Aunt. She was almost 91 (next month), almost 3 years older than Mom. I will never forget her and I will always love her.
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 46 lbs lost so far, only 9 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Friends.
Asking for your prayers for my very dear, sweet Aunt. Hubby and I just got back from visiting her. She was sleeping.
She is Mom's only Sister. She is in a hospice care place. She had a stroke last week. She has always been an outstanding, very good, sweet, loving Aunt. One that could be depended on for help when anyone needed help. A wonderful Christian. She is almost 91 (next month), almost 3 years older than Mom. This is a very sad time. We all love her very much.
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 46 lbs lost so far, only 9 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
Scale pleasantly reported 157 again this morning. Still happy. Think I will change my goal weight to 157, makes more sense instead of always feeling like I am 'not there' at goal weight. Altho I am a little heavier than I think I prefer, maybe this is better. Just be happy and thankful to be this size and not the much heavier size I once was almost 50 pounds ago, ha. My orignial goal weight when I was at my heaviest of 205 many years ago was to weigh between 150 and 160, anyway. Why shall we be so hard on ourselves, trying to obtain inobtainable perfection? The only One Who is perfect is Jesus.
My favorite flowers, orange tiger daylilies are now blooming in the front and in the back yards. So beautiful. Also this morning, when walking in the yard, I noticed that our gardenia bushes are blooming. They smell so wonderfully sweet! The rose bushes are blooming, pink ones, red ones, yellow ones and orange ones. The petunias are blooming, red ones and pink with white stripes ones. Lantanas are blooming...yellow ones so far and waiting on the purple ones and the orange ones. I have been working a lot in the yards, trimming bushes mainly.
We all have so much to be thankful to the Lord for, if we only focus on the positives and not the negatives. Hoping you are having a good day.
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Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
I love walking by homes that have flowers blooming, it sure smells wonderful!!!!! must look pretty too!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
Scale weighed me at 157 this morning again. Thought it might be 156, but still happy.
Hoping you are having a good day. Flowers are blooming and nice, sunny, warm days. Soon the summer heat will be coming in, so really enjoying this springtime weather while we have it.
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Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
Scale weighed me at 157 this morning again. Thought it might be 156, but still happy.
Hoping you are having a good day. Flowers are blooming and nice, sunny, warm days. Soon the summer heat will be coming in, so really enjoying this springtime weather while we have it.
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Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
Scale weighed me at 157 this morning again. Although not at goal, pretty content at this weight currently as I may need to be a little heavier than I would preferr to have the energy to do the things I do daily.
Hoping you are having a good day. We are mostly staying in the 80's for highs in the daytime here, with morning lows in the 60's.
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Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you all.
Scale weighed me at 157 this morning again. Not complaining.
Hoping you are having a good day. It has been a warm, sunny day here.
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Every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
my goal is to keep cardio more often now in the schedule, more to be fitter but that should also keep my weight in check!
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My childhood was just the same as your's Maria........You know....that as a child my husband carried matches because it was his job to burn the trash at home...and he never burned anything or anyone else....they were even in his pocket at school...he also carried a pocket knife to whittle small pieces of wood......and he never cut anyone...this was also in his pocket at school....and when we went to high school...there were actually hunting rifles in the back windows of trucks because some kids hunted....yet...no one was ever shot at school...we had limits that we knew well. We took responsibility for ourselves and our behavior. We grew up in a wonderful time....today I fear for the kids.....we still live in a wonderful country....but the people have changed for the worse.........there is no direction or self discipline, no personal responsibility.....everything is everyone elses fault.....we are lucky....todays kids not so much....I hear you loud and clear.....we loved our lives, we knew what consequences were, we were taught to respect and honor our god, our parents and our teachers...and our country. We knew who ran things and it wasn't us and as kids, we respected that. Lucky for us that we still hold those beliefs...too many today don't....but....today...those that don't will just have to live in the chaos that is now the American life....it is apparently what they want....yet they will be the ones crying the loudest when they realize what they have created......but our generation will be gone and no one will listen to them...or understand. I'm very thankful to have been born when I was.....and i still think America is the best possible place to be......and I'm sad for what it has become.
Horn_of_plenty on 07/05/2019:
It's true. This country and the world is ever-changing. sometimes it takes years for a person to realize it. there are always challenges we face, and decisions leaders make, and then the consquences that follow. like you, i can only wish more positivity and good for our country and for the world!
Donkey on 07/06/2019:
There just seems to be so much hate in our nation right now - and in the world, overall.