Time for confessions…this is hard. Bear with me….yikes! My name is Heidi Bylsma. (This sounds like something I would say at a 12 step group…). Well, I was…um…erm….I um….was the collaborator for the Thin Within book. (This really DOES sound like something I would say at a 12 step group! YIKES!) I need to not […]
11/27/06 Day 4 Responses
Just completed Day Four so thought I would share any thoughts.. I have to keep my momentum going! ====1. On page 36: “Although our wandering disrupts our fellowship with [God], the breech in intimacy need not last long. Thankfully God has provided for our waywardness on our Thin Within journey with the tool we call […]
11/26/06 Day 1, 2, and 3 thoughts
I have been posting thoughts as I study the book, Thin Within © Arthur and Judy Halliday 2002 on the thin_within_support@yahoogroups.com email list. I thought I would go ahead and post those here.=========From Day 1“Today’s focus is on the Love God has for us. Please, please evaluate the material you studied.prayerfully ask the Lord to […]
Charts and Graphs
In case anyone gets encouragement from it, I don’t use the Observation and Correction chart, the food log, or hunger graph…all that stuff. God hasn’t given me the freedom to do it. Nor do I want to use those tools! LOL! God leads everyone uniquely. Some feel led to use those things or do for […]
A jumble of Thoughts
Hi, everyone. I have asked God to please clarify my hunger/satisfaction signals. They are muddied at times. In the past, I never had any problem with this. It seems odd that I am having difficulty with this now, when I am applying myself more wholeheartedly than ever to this approach and to giving God access […]
No Shame!?
Now I know beyond any shadow of any doubt that God is doing a NEW THING! If I doubted it before, I can doubt no more.In the Thin Within book, there has always been one thing that has been almost impossible for me to do…that is the “Mirror Mirror” exercise in Day 5. Even when […]
Continuing…Pressing on and In to Him
God is faithful. Miracles never cease! I wonder at this change in my heart. God had to overcome some very serious obstacles. But he has caused me to literally be done with excuses for the past 4 weeks.He used someone who loves horses and the Lord to invite me to faithfulness. I won’t go into […]
We May Fear Being Thin
WARNING: This post contains mature content. Please read this only if the Holy Spirit directs you to do so. Stop if you feel a check in your spirit along the way. Additionally, as you read, please know this…there is HOPE.========== Regarding the comment about being afraid to being thin…it touched off some thoughts… Many of […]
At the Beginning Again
Isaiah 43: 18-19 says:Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. ——–For years, God has been doing “A New Thing” in my life, yet […]
First Day in a Long time
I am going to be posting some things that I sent to the Thin Within Support list. I would like to have a chronicle of my journey all in one spot. So some of these posts are older…from before I started this blog, if that makes sense! LOL!====== God has been showing me just how […]