relationship

Part of dieting/ losing weight is preparedness.  Part of getting out of a pit is clinging onto God for dear life and expectantly waiting for deliverance.

My niece's dinner rehearsal is tomorrow and her wedding is on Saturday.  I've been thinking a lot about whether or not I'm going to eat cake at her wedding.  As of now, the answer is no or maybe half of a piece.  Anyway, for her dinner rehearsal we are going to a restaurant I've been too before and it's a place where I have gorged myself in the past.  Yesterday, I looked at the menu online to see if there were things I could eat and stay on the plan.  There were and so I sent my niece a text to ask if we would all be ordering our own meals or if it was catered.  She told me they got a buffet.  My heart sank as I thought about all of the big metal pans filled with delicious pasta that I would have to pass up.  And I thought, if anything, I'll be able to have a big salad.

Today during my quiet time, it dawned on me that I was putting my faith in myself and not in God in that situation.  I didn't trust God enough for there to be things at that dinner that I could eat.  So, in response to that, I will pray and show up expecting there to be plan friendly foods.  There is stuff on their menu that would not throw me off so there will be at their buffet!

"Relationship.  That's one of the best things that can come out of a waiting room....God calls upon us to walk in faith because faith requires a partner to place it in." - Beth Moore