7 Experiment: Food - Week 1 In Review

Day 1)  What to eat, what not to eat?  My prayer continues to be that this experiment does not become legalistic.  I want my heart and mind be opened to the excess in my life and it has been.  Just today alone, I've found myself wandering into the kitchen opening the pantry, on the verge of mindlessly shoving a handful of something, anything into my mouth.


Day 2) My head is POUNDING!!  I'm guessing it's from going cold turkey on the coffee and sugar, but really only two days.  I had to go into Walmart to get some fruit for a fruit salad I was taking to a birthday dinner.  (Remember, I am saying "no" to sugary sweets)  OH MY GOODNESS!  It's Easter time which is just another way to tempt me with savory, sugary sweets.  They were EVERYWHERE, heaven help me I had to get out of there pronto!!  Explained the 7 premise to my friend, she didn't think I was crazy, in fact she was was very encouraging and said she was going to be doing her own experiment with food.


Day 3) Not too bad, the headache seems to have subsided ('THANK YOU, JESUS!).  I enjoyed great meeting at Starbucks with my friend, who was so sweet and bought me a black iced tea, no water, unsweetened, thank you very much.  She also didn't think I was out of my mind when I told about the 7 premise, gotta keep friends like that!!

Day 4) Not much to report, that can't be a bad thing.......thank you Jesus :)

Day 5)  Went to Costco and Sprouts...I found both to be dangerous places for me.  I went into Sprouts with the  sole purpose of finding bread and tortillas that had less than 5 ingredients in them.  And being a total newbie (and a bread lover) this proved to be a little more of a challenge than I anticipated.  I found the 2 items on my list and forced myself to walk past the yummy treats calling me from the bulk food aisles.   Next was Costco... Costco at lunchtime....not well thought out on my end.  I felt I was doing pretty well, staying focused trying not to inhale to deeply as I went by the samples.  I swear they were at the end of EVERY aisle today.  Stayed to my list was heading around the corner to check-out and what would make this

caramel loving

girl in her tracks and drool:

Trying to hold fast my resolve and kept repeating my standby Lord get me through this scripture - Philippians 4:13 "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me."  Mission accomplished, thank you JESUS!!!


Day 6)  What am I desiring the most to eat or drink?  The answer would be everything and yet nothing....Isn't that pathetic!!!  I don't know if it's denying myself so much as it is becoming more keenly aware of the EXCESSive amount of choices I am afforded everyday.  Stop and think about it for a few minutes, it is  insanity to max....do I want my coffee hot or iced?  with or without and endless array of flavors, boosts and any assortment of goodness I can create.  How do I want my eggs....fried (easy, over easy, sunny-side up), scrambled, hard-boiled, poached?  And that my friends, is just in my own kitchen and it's not even 7:00 A.M.!!!


Day 7)  Not much to report today.......thank you Jesus :)

7 Experiment: Food - Day 1

"No man knows how bad he is until he tries very hard to be good.....Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is."  ~ C.S. Lewis


It all started last year when God really began opening my eyes and cleaning out the darkness my heart as he readied me to experience more of him and less of me.  But  He is so sweet to me and sent me a friend, Chrissy,  who is willing to say "yes" more than she says "no".  Yep, together I think we might just be certifiable, and that's is just what I needed!

God said very clearly to me that had so much he wanted to share with me, with all of us actually.  I had to Stop.....

STOP putting God in my box                              STOP looking inward
STOP limiting him                                              STOP seeking & trusting in this world
STOP living like I don't have (fill in the blank)

           STOP for the love of all things just STOP

Whether you believe in God and have accepted or rejected who Jesus says he is, I would find it very hard to believe that for the majority of us that we would not, could not find some area of excess in our lives.  I know that for me even narrowing down my 7 foods was very much a challenge because I so wanted to circumvent AKA manipulate the challenge so that I wouldn't be without.  Shocking........nope, pathetic slap me hard upside the head with this realization a resounding YEP!


You don't have to read the book 7: an experimental mutiny against excess by Jen Hatmaker or even participate in your own experiment, but I do want to encourage to take a good long look at your lifestyle and see if any excess jumps out at you.  I wonder how this experiment is going to change me, I pray for the better.


 My had a dear friend, Mandy, asked me a great question regarding writing a blog, "Are you sure you want to open yourself like that?"  Hmmm, I hadn't thought of it like that before, but I knew that if I didn't put myself out there 'like that' then really what is the point.  So here I go, I am putting my 7 challenge out there on the World Wide Web for the whole world to read.

7 Experiment (Food) 30 day challenge

1. No coffee (for me it's ALL about the creamers, coffee is honestly an excuse to drink yummy creamers).
2. No 2nd helpings and again so I can't cheat no excessive 1st helpings either.
3. No sweets, no candy or desserts. Fresh fruit (not canned) is allowed, I gotta stay sane somehow. :)
4. No processed white breads or pastas.  Basically nothing with over 5 ingredients.
5. Two days a week I am only eating egg whites, grilled chicken, black beans, veggies & drinking only water.
6. No pop.
7. No creamy sauces or gravies.

Check back in on me from time to time and click on the 7 Experiment label on the right.  And if you are doing own experiment I would love to hear about that too! It will help keep me certifiably sane :)

Seeds Of Faith

"Seeds of faith are always within us;

 sometimes it takes a crisis 

to nourish and encourage 

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Susan Taylor

The Ebb And Flow Of Holding On And Letting God

Yesterday I started reading 'What Happens When Women Walk In Faith' by Lysa TerKeurst.  I thought I had been doing that.

Today, looks like God has begun some revealing, possibly closing doors in order to open new ones, asking me to to trust Him, to seek him more in prayer.  What is going to happen when I walk in faith, trusting Him to reveal my next step?  The Ebb and Flow Of Holding On And Letting God

It's such a crazy thing, this journey called being a believer.  I was talking to a a dear friend about this very thing today.  Never once in God's word, not one time, does he ever say while I am are here on this earth, that I won't have trials, heartaches, that I won't have to be humbled and that life will be easy.  In fact it says that I will have all of the above and more.  Over and over: deaths that come to soon, sickness, marriages ending, families being destroyed, the loss of jobs, dreams shattered.

The Ebb and Flow Of Holding On And Letting God

But as a believer I do have God's promises that I can hold tightly to: there is only one God, His word is truth, God never changes, He will never leave me or forsake me.  His love, grace & mercy for me incomprehensible, He searches after me with an unending, reckless abandon.  He only wants the best for me, He wants me to dream wild and crazy dreams, just so He can make them a better reality than I could have ever imagined.  I've been on this amazing God journey before and it is a wild and crazy ride.  One that would put Six Flags to shame. But I know enough to not look back, to press on and trust in the One who holds it all in His hand.  I'm not giving up, just getting refocused, anticipating  Yes, those are the promises that I am choosing to hold on tightly.   

The Ebb and Flow Of Holding On And Letting God

To Him Be The Glory ~ Amen

Yet, Am I Willing To Reach For A Star?

"Yet if we would know God 

and for other’s sake, tell what we know, 

we must try to speak of His love…

I can do no more do justice to 

that awesome and wonder-filled theme

 than a child can grasp a star.

 Still, by reaching toward the star 

the child may call attention to it and even

 indicate the direction one must look to see it.

 So as I stretch my heart toward the high, 

shining love of God,

someone who has not before known 

about it may be encouraged 

to look and have hope.”

- A.W. Tozer 

 The Knowledge of the Holy

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is just that, every Friday I'll be posting some of my 

fav's old and new. I pray you will enjoy them as much as I do!

Falalalala Friday

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la         Friday

is just that, every Friday I'll be posting some of my fav's old and 

new.I pray you will enjoy them as much as I do!