It is NO secret that I'm a firm believer in journaling--whether you are using the 4-page a day Change Your Life Daily Journal or the My Partner Prayer Notebook--every written word contains more accountability than a good intention!
This week--even with the holiday--I want to ask you to plan (one day in advance) for time to journal. Record your weight or eating goals--even log your food intake and workout schedule. List your "to do's" and check them off. Rewrite your prayer request list.
For the next 7 days, keep a journal--faithfully. Read pages 131-152 in Keep The Change to "fan the flame" for this powerful, daily discipline. Journaling WILL change your life, if you let it!
Be encouraged,
Becky
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Can I post a prayer request as we go to week four?
I just got word I have to have some serious dental work done.
37 years of diabetes has taken a toll on my teeth and they cant save many of them. We don't have insurance for this.
Also am in danger of them just snapping off, which frightens me beyond words.
Please pray that God gets me through to January when I will have this done. I'm in training for small group leader for our women's ministry, and now I don't know if I will be able to speak well next semester.
thanks...
Week Four--Becky, I took your 'non-negotiable' to heart! Have managed to do our assignment every day since and including Wednesday.
The To-Do list I always did, but since our phone call I set the CYL Bible in two areas where I can easily sit and read (away from my Bible study homework desk). Also updated the prayer lists, wrote out some prayers to God and meaningful verses. I also listed goals and dreams (noted page 141), so they wont end up discarded.
I may miss our last call-might have to take my Mom to the doctor, but wanted to thank you in advance for another session of blessings. Have a blessed holiday.
Emma.
Becky, I can not believe how making an appointment one day in advance really helps. I am encouraged and praying. I am enjoying my journaling like the chapter encouraged us to do and journaling is something that is harder than writing my prayers. I got home tonight without my journal, I left it at work and I am not worried about this small interruption, I have the extra blank paper, so I will just add it to the journal tomorrow. Just to report since we started I lost 8 pounds this time around. My heart is encouraged. My soul is refreshed. My new saying to emotional pain this is nothing to eat over, just journal about the pain, let go and let God. I trust that you will have all have a blessed holiday. Blessings, Diana
Diana,
What a fabulous report!
Emmab...let us know how your're doing!
Be encouraged ALL,
Becky
I can look back over my spiritual journey and very clearly see that I felt closest and most connected to God when I was journaling. It was something I started in college, but two kids and a full-time job later, journaling became "too much work." I would have stops and starts, because I knew what a difference it had made in the past. In one sense, I didn't want to journal because it meant I had to slow down too much and I got impatient that my mind could go faster than my hand, but on the other hand, it is the slowing down that was really what I needed. Reconnecting with journaling these last number of weeks has been very awakening. I am committed to continuing for years to come.
Becky and all: I have dental appointments scheduled January 6,13 and 14.
Our women's ministry starts the 22'nd. This is always a stressful month for us anyway, because our business is very slow in the winter.
I'm praying just to get through with no complications.
Yesterday's Psalm (Dec. 2 reading) was one I am clinging to.
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