Peculiarly Classic

If you’ve been reading earlier posts you already know God has me on a diet. (Read “When God Answers Prayer....”) So I decided I would actually participate in my own weight loss journey and join a weight loss program.   I’m four weeks in and I’ve lost a whole three pounds!!!!! I know you’re reading this and rolling your eyes at the screen as we speak.  Me???? I’m ecstatic!!!! I, the “sweet tooth queen” herself, has TEMPORARILY given up sweets, and started eating much smaller portions than I’m used to while drinking more water than I can stand in a day. To see some progress.... any progress is an accomplishment on my part. Makes me wonder how much more I can achieve if I keep at it.  The hardest part of changing habits is obviously letting go of the old. I’ve already mentioned how I’m not the greatest leader of change. That, however, is changing in my life as well. I feel compelled to do things that hasn’t been seen or heard of in my family.  With a little over two mon

In the world we live in today, being single can be terrifyingly satisfying. You have the freedom to come and go from your house as you please. If you decide that fast food and/or brownies and ice cream is what you’re having for dinner, you get in your car and go get it. Whose going to stop you? And when you go to sleep at night, that entire bed belongs to you friend! However, with this satisfying freedom of your own house, car, and bed comes the never ending bills, the maintenance costs, and the responsibility attached to it. Terrifying isn’t it? It all becomes stressful which undoubtedly makes you weary working so hard in the long run.  In an effort to de-stress and still be considered good citizens, I imagine some singles turn to relationships, drugs, or who knows what to temporarily relieve them of the weariness that’s bound to come with life as a single.  They have the freedom to do whatever but as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:23, “I have the right to do anything,&quo