• Feb. 11, 2008
Article for local Curves newsletter Nov. 30, 2006

People have started to notice my weight loss these last few months, and I should hope so!  Five years and two babies later, there is 100 pounds and 65 inches less of me than there used to be – and yet there is so much more of me that has grown over that same amount of time.

So often people ask me how I have done it.  I usually tell them that I just finally did all the things I’ve known for so long that I needed to do.  The difference is that God now has me in a place of humble obedience, and not just in this area of my life.  It is possible to go through the motions of obedience for a time without any aspect of humility being present.  But it is not really obedience if it is done begrudgingly.  I am such a rebellious eater and a control freak.  Even in past periods of doing well, there was no humility in it.  My job is obedience.  To learn to say the simple prayer of “Yes, Sir,” and practice it over and over.  Not begrudgingly.  But with full confidence and gratitude, trusting and loving the One gently guiding.

 One of the amazing aspects of the victory God is giving me is how little it has to do with food.  The changes that are happening physically are just a two-dimensional picture of the deeper transformation in me.  God is so graciously, patently, removing the layers I hid behind, paralyzed by fear and inability, and He is revealing . . . not more of the real me to the world, but more of Him to me. As He peels back the layers and I see Him more clearly, He lets His radiance bounce back out from me – true beauty that is far deeper than magazine covers and fashion runways.  I am overwhelmed!  The less of me there is to get in the way, the more of Him and of the me He created me to be there is shining through.

 So although there is still a good bit of weight to loose, I am looking forward to all that I will continue to gain as God continues His patient work in my life.

 “Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.”  Psalm 34:5

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• Feb. 17, 2008
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Posted by pwdebra

Congratulations on the fabulous reworking of self in your life. I was just browsing around and it looked like we had alot in common from your profile.

Edited by pwdebra on Feb. 17, 2008 at 5:11 AM

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