Day 2

Today I didn’t do so great L I let life control my goals instead of me. It Sunday so the idea of getting up for a morning walk was not sounding like fun so I choose not to walk before church. Then all evening I was waiting for a phone call from my husband & daughter who was on their way home from Joplin, MO so I didn’t want to get away and not be ready when they called. All excuses but that is all I have right now.

So let’s look at my check list

þ Spend time with God

I give myself a great on this one. I was totally engaged in our worship service and did my person bible study on Daniel 1:1-21, we’ll get to that in a minute

þ Pray! Pray! Pray!

My prayer life is improving. Spend time in prayer before my bible study, I wake up praying and go to sleep praying, I also find myself praying about things or for people that I would have before starting this dare.

o Get active

Well I think we already covered that one. FAIL! L That’s ok. Not every day is a success and I’m not going to beat myself up for it. What I am going to do is get up the next day and try again, in time it will all come together as my routine.

þ Make wise food choices

This was a good day! I didn’t over eat and didn’t end feeling deprived.

o þ Manage my time

You be the judge. I put a lot off in hopes of doing them with my husband when he returned from his trip, but did none of them because they were late getting back. I spent a lot of time doing nothing.

Daniel 1:1-21

Daniel and his friends have been captured to be trained to serve the king. We pick up at the beginning of his training.

Everyone is divided into groups and the Chief Official is told to feed them the same royal food and wine as the King is eating. Daniel did not want to defile himself with this food (it went against the biblical teaching he grew up with). Now I have seen pictures of kings and most of them were not the picture of health and all of them had more food than they needed; poor example of being healthy or fit.

Daniel followed Old Testament teaching. He didn’t want to cause trouble with his official so he issued a challenge. Let the other officials feed their people the royal food and you feed us only vegetables and water for the next 10 days. At the end of that time let’s see who is healthier; if they are then we will eat the royal food, if it is us then let us eat what to better for us.

So for the next 10 days I will only eat plant base food. Lots of vegetables, fruits and whole grains, lots of water and some fruit juice (100% only); I am going to allow myself a little milk for cereal but no meat. Daniel benefited from this type of food choice and I know God can teach me a lot about myself.

I will receive blessings from God as I get closer to Him.