You Live You Learn

So friends today has been quite the day let me tell you! Mostly not in a good way. But I have had my ups as well as the downs. I guess let me start with the downs so that we can end on a good note. So I hadn't been able to weigh in yet this week and last night I looked up on weighwatherchers.com the meeting times to see if there was one near my dad's house as I would be heading over there early to take my dad, Liz, Jake and my grandma to the airport to go to NY. Well lucky me (sarcasm) they had a meeting time at 9 (am...booooo). Then I left my car at the house because I have to go back there to feed the cat every day while they are gone. I had a bad feeling about taking my dad's car for the night but it had more room to get all their stuff to the airport. We loaded up and I dropped then off everything was going fine. Then I had to go get fingerprinted so I head over to the place and to my horror the parking lot is SO tiny and there are a lot of cars parked VERY badly and I am driving a BIG SUV and am use to a small car. There also happens to be a wooden pole in the middle of the stinking parking lot (UGH). So after trying to maneuver and go forward and backup several times to park the car. I back into the pole. I was freaking out. I felt so bad and stupid for hitting the dang pole. I called my dad and told him what happened he didn't seem too upset. Then I tried to calm myself down and went to put my name on the list to get finger printed. It took 3 hours, yes 3 hours, that is not a mistake to get them done. All the while people were getting angry it was taking so long and there were children running around and crying. It was like a nightmare. So I had a not so good morning in all!

So now onto the good things that happened. When I weighted in I lost 2lbs even after eating all those princess cupcakes that auntie and I made. They were so cute they had poison apple, Cinderella slipper, pearl, and crown sprinkles. Next week hopefully I should be down 25lbs from my highest weight. I am so close! I am going along the thought process of wanting to get a personal trainer so that I can actually get some muscles going. I don't know about all that and how it would all work out right now though. Just a thought for the near future.

The other good thing that has happened today is that when I got home I was not in the best state of mind and so I spent time doing the devotional book that I have and reading my Bible. I was provided with two good things to share during that time. The topic was about having a gentle and quite spirit. One of the verses that went along with this in the devotional book really stood out to me and I wanted to share. 1 Timothy 6:11 says "But you , man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness." These are not the words of Jesus but Paul had some pretty insightful stuff to share too :) After I finished my devotional I was working on my Bible reading plan and came across Matthew 11:28-30. I have heard this passage I don't even know how many times. Something about it today just hit me though and it took on a deeper meaning. The passage says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn form me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for you souls. for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." If you read it and actually take time to think about what this all would mean if you truly are yoked to someone. My devotional book asked three questions that helped it to take on a deeper meaning 1. What did Jesus mean when He said "come" 2. What did He mean when He said "take my yoke" 3. What did He mean when He said "learn from me" I am sure you know but in case you don't this is what a yoke looks like.

I am hoping to write down some more ideas for my book later tonight after I get some more stuff down around the house. I will let you guys know if anything happens with that next time.
In other news I watched Thelma and Louise for the first time the other night with Carrie. It was pretty good. I don't really know what to make of the ending still but I definitely liked it. I also have been reading a lot of the seeker series. It is soooo good! We also finished season 2 of Buffy omg sooooooo gooooodddddd! I almost cried. I also have this new obsession with finding things to bid for on ebay.

Well I hope you all have a very lovely weekend do something you enjoy doing and haven't done in a while :)
~K