Today my fasting blood sugar was 104, and my weight 229.6! This is like being in college again.
Without the craziness. Just new crazy.
I just need to take things One Day at a Time.
I have an OA meeting shortly.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Back again..
So I'm beginning to start this blog again. Much has changed since my last entry. I have been able to take a sabbatical for my health, and so now have fasting blood sugars which are ideal for a normal person without diabetes, and my weight has fallen from 324 pounds last September to 234 pounds as of this morning. My weight loss continued but slowed since I left my program. I'm hoping to get back on track as I add exercise to the mix.
On the spiritual side I was reading today fom a sermon by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which he gave at Pentecost at the Abbey of the Dormition. Here are some excerpts:
“The finality of Easter is not that Jesus is risen and that he returns to the Father, but that His life dwells within us. ...
" The Spirit is a gift that does not remain outside the person, but enters within…"
" The Spirit is not simply something extra, an accessory, but it is precisely what makes us live.”
I was thinking as I read this how wonderfully as to think of the Holy Spirit's sacramental revelation to us in the sign of oil in Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders. Oil enters the skin; and thus signifies not only the healing power of the Holy Spirit as a medicine and a saving salve for what ails us, but is something that becomes part of our very being. And this is just one of the ways in which he manifests his purpose to us: as light, heat, fire, the potential fire which is oil, water, wind, and breath. Without him, we grow blind, cold, dry, directionless, and die spiritually long before our bodies finally fail.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the lives of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love!
On the spiritual side I was reading today fom a sermon by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which he gave at Pentecost at the Abbey of the Dormition. Here are some excerpts:
“The finality of Easter is not that Jesus is risen and that he returns to the Father, but that His life dwells within us. ...
" The Spirit is a gift that does not remain outside the person, but enters within…"
" The Spirit is not simply something extra, an accessory, but it is precisely what makes us live.”
I was thinking as I read this how wonderfully as to think of the Holy Spirit's sacramental revelation to us in the sign of oil in Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders. Oil enters the skin; and thus signifies not only the healing power of the Holy Spirit as a medicine and a saving salve for what ails us, but is something that becomes part of our very being. And this is just one of the ways in which he manifests his purpose to us: as light, heat, fire, the potential fire which is oil, water, wind, and breath. Without him, we grow blind, cold, dry, directionless, and die spiritually long before our bodies finally fail.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the lives of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love!
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