The usual with regard to both food and exercise with the exception of an additional 3 miles at lunch time.
The usual morning routine with regard to food and exercise.� Finding some very mild soreness resulting from the first two days of training but nothing sufficient to hinder me or to cause injury.� Can't say any visible changes would be occuring as yet but I am noticing my energy level and mental alertness are improved.� Am also being sure to take vitamin supplements in the morning.
Up early and did the tone workout and had a breakfast of egg whites and a cup of mixed vegetables.
Found some strengths/weakenesses in myself in the workout.� Very weak on the pushups and it will take a while to rebuild that strength.� The leg portion of the workout was strenuous but the biking has definitely helped.
Haven't as yet done the pictures and measurements but hope to get to that today.� The area where I hope to see the greatest difference over time is the meat curtain which is my stomach and the pathetic absence of muscle tone in my chest.
After much procrastination I am finally beginning the Power 90 diet and exercise plan.� Weight upon waking was 217 pounds.� Will take photos and measurements prior to my workout after work.� The last time I did the program was about 7 1/2 years ago and I didn't manage to stick with it.� I'm not getting any younger so this time I need to make it stick.
Was unable to begin on Monday as originally intended but started off first thing this morning with the 40 minute cardio and abs routine followed by a breakfast of egg whites and mixed vegetables.� Then the normal 30 minute bike ride into work.
It is amazing how much more mentally alert I feel than normal having gotten the blood flowing strong right at the start of the day.� Will try and get the photos and measurements this evening.� Only hiccup on the 90 days will be the two that I head to the prayer advance in a couple weeks.� Hopefully between now and then I'll begin to note some positive changes and weight loss.
With the economy in a questionable state, the nation falling under the spell of godless leaders and the growing threat of terrorism and the outpouring of God's wrath on this nation ... it seems a wise time to chuck living in a large metropolitan area on the east coast and head for the hills.� However with my home equity underwater since the housing crash the question is whether to hand the home back to the bank and just walk away.� Funds are needed for such a change and without some means of miraculous provision it is uncertain whether that escape from impending doom is even feasible.
He's making a list … Gonna find out who's ... in the Book of Life?
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There's a Christmas song I used to sing as a child about Santa “making a list and checking it twice” … you know the next part. It taught that only the nice got presents but if one was naughty then they'd get only a lump of coal for Christmas. Well the Lord is making a list too [“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” - Proverbs 15:3] … those who are His children by the new birth and those who aren't.
I'm not trying to treat this matter with lightness, but to indicate that the account we must give to God is far more serious than Santa checking to see if we are naughty or nice. It would seem that we are ALL on God’s “naughty” list. “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one” – Romans 3:10. If we don’t get put on the “nice” list there is a far worse fate awaiting us than a simple lump of coal – “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:15
Sound a bit dreary for a Christmas note? The good news is that the very season we’re celebrating is intended to point us to a wonderful gift God provided for each one of us who are on the “naughty list” and wish to be on God’s “nice list” known as the Book of Life. A gift cannot be earned by us no matter how hard we may try to be “nice” or then it would be a wage and not a gift. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” – Ephesians 2:8, 9
The question then isn’t whether you are “naughty” or “nice” but rather have you accepted this gift? Not sure? Let me explain more about it. I mentioned there is a difference between a wage and a gift. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” – Romans 6:23. Taking that into account wouldn’t the gift seem the better of the two?
Christ took upon himself the wage we are due. Interestingly enough the tree we use to celebrate points to the cost of this gift I spoke of. “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree…” – I Peter 2:24.
If you believe that He has purchased this gift for you then do two things; (1) give up your efforts to win His approval by your actions (Hebrews 6:1 "...repentance from dead works...") as Christ's action on the cross is the only one which bridges that gap between where you are and where He is. And (2) talk to Him about it in prayer. Make this Christmas the one where you received the greatest gift of all. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” – John 6:47
So, are you "naughty" or "nice"? Is your name written in the Book of Life? Of the presents you receive this year, there is none greater than the gift Christ offers to you if you will but accept His gift of salvation.
This is my wife and my Christmas message to friends and family.� If it is a blessing to you please share it with others.
Have an overwhelming sense of being a leaf drifting aimlessly about a pond ... no purpose ... no direction.� A few years shy of 50 and nothing to show materially or spiritually in the way of fruit for the thousands of hours of labor and effort.� Never thought in terms of whether or not my life would leave a mark but feeling more and more often the utter meaninglessness of my existence.� Cannot point to a soul changed by my influence towards being used of God nor can I point to the far less important success in the esteem of men or the accumulation of wealth.� Friends are few, distant and seen at best once a year.� I still struggle day to day, and fail, just to manage to pay the bills.� My home is not even maximized for what it is but rather is a mess, an eye sore, an embarassment.� Worthless seems to be a word which describes and encompasses all that I am and do and possess.� I marvel each day that God even allows me to waste the air I breathe.� Many years back I made a conscious choice to ask that when my life reached a point at which it was without positive value that in mercy He would take me home.� Seeing, through my eyes at least, virtually no positive impact on anyone or anything I wonder if there is something I do not see or if there is some tremendous reversal of this misfortune yet to come for which I am being preserved.� All too often I echo those words of Solomon's despair "all is vanity and vexation of spirit".
Decades of liberal control of the educational system and the media, brainwashing the masses, has come to its fruition with the election of an empty suit who will accelerate the already existing decline.� God have mercy on our souls.
The day before the election.� Pondering whether tomorrow will bring the mercy of God or a plunge into darkness from which this nation will never recover.� Many given to prayer and fasting for Divine intervention to step the tide of the godless and amoral taking over what was once a great nation "under God".� I'm middle aged and so it is not so much for myself but for my children & grandchildren I fear most what lies ahead.
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