The last couple weeks have been filled with numerous changes. I started working part time, school starts today, my son has started school and I will soon have another son start preschool. All of these changes had me thinking about the changes I have been trying to make this summer (raw/vegan). Why is it when any other thing starts or stops that I forget what goals I have for my body?
I used to get so mad when I would think about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I thought come on people, you really had to try that apple when God specifically told you not to? As if there was not enough other options to choose from. I had it made up in my mind that if God would have picked me as Eve, that I would have made the right choice. I really truly believed that with all my heart. These days however, I could only hope that I would have made the right choice. If there is anything that I am known to make a bad choice with - it is over food. Granted Adam and Eve didn't have the food addictions that the processed foods we now have give... Ok, sorry, I shouldn't make excuses for my bad choices...but I was truly angry at them for messing it up for the rest of us.
So what causes us to make the bad decisions? I seem to think that I have more than enough time to make up for bad choices. I try to rationalize, really, what is one more day going to make a difference... there is always tomorrow. Perhaps that is why God wanted us to always focus on today, since tomorrow will have it's own worries. For me, all of my tomorrows never show up since I'm always thinking about the day after. I don't want to look back on my life and remember all of the days that I wished away because I'm always wondering about how it will feel to be at the goal. I want to enjoy my life journey and minimize the poor choices.
None of us are guaranteed tomorrow, yet we can make decisions today that would improve our chances.
So back to the garden... I wonder what kind of apple it was? I mean, if it was a honey crisp apple...
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