No More Potato Chips

No More Potato Chips.  The title of my new blog says it all!  Time to "change my habit(s)."  Now that it is Lent, I need to get right with myself, especially as I contemplate turning 50 years old in 2014!  This blog will serve to give me some accountability in my life.  I need to post every now and then my efforts to be in the best physical (and mental and spiritual) shape I can be in.  Successes. Challenges. Failures. Whatever.  The journey begins.  (183.2 lbs.)

Sunday Morning

I love Sunday mornings, especially when I wake up early.  I get a cup of freshly made coffee and head to the TV room where I do NOT turn on the noise box, but sit and read.  This morning, I returned to a book I started weeks ago, Chasing Mystery, by Carey Ellen Walsh.  The synopsis reads,

Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent? Why can t we see him at least long enough to allay doubt? How does one grow deeper in love with God against the cultural currents of disdain and antagonism? Chasing Mystery is an exploration into how the Bible negotiates the presence and absence of God in the hopes of forging a path in the modern situation where absences often seem more pressing than presences. Amid the prevailing skepticism and restlessness, says Walsh, we must relearn the skill of trust in reading Scripture. The aim is to experience God through holy writing. Walsh offers a work in biblical theology that explores the liveliness of the God of the Bible. She insists that the pages of the Bible do not simply describe divine presence; they evoke it in the process of reading. Not all the time, certainly not predictably, but enough to warrant a trust. Her goal is to strengthen the heart's reading competency in order to facilitate our encounter with God.

 

Walsh so captures the way I find myself relating to God -- loving, mysterious, mischievous (!), hidden, wanting to be found. 

 

Yesterday, I walked 3 miles before going to Mass with two of our brothers.  We went out for something to eat afterwards.  This always poses a diet challenge.  How to eat healthfully but enjoyably.  I chose the fish which was accompanied by a small amount of rice and a mixed vegetable.  No appetizer.  One piece of rustic Italian bread.  A glass of wine.  Enough.  Today will be another challenge as I visit my family for a Sunday dinner.  I'll have to have a little (a lot?) of each dish to make my mother happy!  She is making an Italian baked macaroni and cheese -- no red sauce --only macaroni, eggs, parmigiano, olive oil, salt, and black pepper.  She cuts it into rectangular shapes.  When we were younger, this is the food we brought on family picnics! (181.6 lbs.)

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