Today is Sunday 27, 2011 - Start

Today starts this blog and my journey on the path to a closer relationship to God. Here I will record my sucesses, failures and the things I will learn along the way.

I weigh 271 lbs and am 6' 1" tall. My body is the temple of the Hoily Spirit but in fact it does not resemble a temple so much as a large balloon and a heavy balloon at that. I have tried many of the fad diets, Weight Wathcers, Atkin's, Fit for life, Joel Fuhrman Diet, and the low fat diet, and none of tehm kept the weight off for long. The best results I ever obtained was from a Christian weight loss program called "The Lord's Table." I lost about 20lbs on this program and kept it off for about 6 months, but at the time I was heavily into this ministry and also a mentor in this same program. The death of a close friend to cancer completely crushed me and I dropped this ministry to

In order to be an effective mentor I had to stay in His word all the time. As time has gone on I have read and re-read the New testement many time and reached the point where I know it fairly well but I 'm only scrtatching the surface each time I read it because I don't have enough tools to really dig into the meat that I know is just under the surface.

Consequently, I am now attneding a free Bible lecture series with included study notes. The program while free is still quite intense and it has been slow going. It's been three weeks and I have only gotten through 21 lectures (each 1 hour long). This course teaches the background and some of the methods to dig below the surface. The lectures in themselves are not that interesting (not as interesting as the Word of God) but they are teaching me the methods that I need to do what I really want to do, which is to mine the Word of God for the gold I know is buried there.

So what does all this have to do with weight loss? Well the fruits of the Spirit are: love, joy,  peace, patience,  kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. I want self-control but all those other fruits are pure gold! Who wouldn't want those too? I have come to the conclusion that EVERYTHING comes through Him, and He also said that apart from Him we can do nothing. So then this is just another step in my walk with Him.

Well, this is all for today but it is a good start. Blessings to all!