If you are continuing with us through the Thin Within book by Judy and Arthur Halliday, this week we will only focus on two chapters because the material is so dense.
Please read chapters 20 and 21 this week and complete all the exercises in these chapters.
Give yourself plenty of time–especially for chapter 20. It is vital material.
Again, I can’t overstress the value of forgiveness in overcoming tendencies to overeat. Please prayerfully immerse yourself in time with the Lord, His Word, and this material this week. If you aren’t at chapter 20 yet, no worries. Please feel free to go the pace that GOD leads. You can still respond on the blog if you like or keep your own blog to record your observations.
Additionally, you may want to consider these things:
1. Is there a Thin Within tool (such as the observation and correction chart, flesh machinery log, food log, or hunger graph) that you can incorporate into your life this week for added accountability?
2. If you have never considered it before, you may want to consider an accountability partner. This blog entry mentions how to consider selecting an accountability partner. An AP can pray for you, help you to keep focused on what is important and be valuable for all sorts of things–not just your Thin Within journey. Please prayerfully consider it!
3. Please keep on generating a list of God’s attributes and his behavior toward you, His child.
4. Take time to practice gratitude statements to the Lord.
5. Praise God for some of the attributes on your list of God’s attributes.
Let’s hunker down and refocus. We still have about a month left to complete the book. This is plenty of time for us to accomplish the godly goals that he set for us. When the book was written it was intended that it be a 30 day book! Can you imagine? 🙂 That would mean we would have had only 10 days left. But the pace we are going affords us about 30 more days! We have as much time for the rest of the material as was intended for the entire book! So, we can DO this! 🙂
I am praying for you today!
Deanna…please shoot me an email. I got your note and obviously, I won't publish it here, but wanted to know if you want to talk at all…please email me at harleysheidi at geeee mail dot com (remove spaces and use spellings that make sense! LOL! I don't want to put it here for all the "bots" on the web to find).I won't be pressing "publish" on your note, but do want to respond to you if that is ok…Thanks! Heidi
Deanna…please shoot me an email. I got your note and obviously, I won't publish it here, but wanted to know if you want to talk at all…please email me at harleysheidi at geeee mail dot com (remove spaces and use spellings that make sense! LOL! I don't want to put it here for all the "bots" on the web to find).I won't be pressing "publish" on your note, but do want to respond to you if that is ok…Thanks! Heidi
Thanks Heidi! I am not as far along in the book as you are, but enjoy so much reading your blog. I just wanted to say that I have had the past few months a true accountability partner for the first time and I am so thankful the Lord connected us! It is really wonderful to know someone is praying for you but also that you can talk heart to heart of what you are going through!!I pray you have a wonderful night!!!
Thanks Heidi! I am not as far along in the book as you are, but enjoy so much reading your blog. I just wanted to say that I have had the past few months a true accountability partner for the first time and I am so thankful the Lord connected us! It is really wonderful to know someone is praying for you but also that you can talk heart to heart of what you are going through!!I pray you have a wonderful night!!!
Hi! I'm still here, but a little behind. I thought I would be able to do more reading at camp this week, but it's not happening. I've done pretty well at camp with 0-5, but I have to say it is hard to know when I am at 0 since it is so hot and humid and I am drinking water by the gallons!
Hi! I'm still here, but a little behind. I thought I would be able to do more reading at camp this week, but it's not happening. I've done pretty well at camp with 0-5, but I have to say it is hard to know when I am at 0 since it is so hot and humid and I am drinking water by the gallons!