Post-op Week Update

Well, the week is finally over. Last weekend was absolutely rife with medical attention for us and other family. The past week was a time of recuperation. Suffice it to say, I'm glad a new week is starting! Everyone is doing fine.

This week will begin the Lenten season, so we'll be hosting our church's Fat Tuesday pancake meal. We're looking forward to that and sharing the time with folks in our house. I look forward to seeing what might come of this season. It seems that the last couple of years was a good time. I had fasted from caffeine and refined sugars, to the effect of losing some weight....somehow I always managed to find it again. ;)

This year we're not just fasting. We're changing the way we eat altogether and the way we look at the consuming of food. Trying to put it back into the proper place of supplying the energy and health for our bodies. This will be quite a paradigm shift for me; I really dig eating good food! However, I think that the Lord will meet us as we strive to simplify our lives in this and some other ways. Lent just seems an appropriate time to make a change this significant.

Of course, the time of Lent isn't just for fasting for a time. It also is an opportunity to examine ourselves against the word and teaching of the Bible, and to adjust our lives to become more aligned with it. One thing I've decided is to speak when I would have otherwise not done so. My life has been marked by the times of my muteness. Times when I should have said something, good or bad, yet for whatever reason didn't. These are the times when praise was due someone but I "could get to it later," yet didn't. These are the times when confrontation was in order, yet I stuffed the emotion, only to have it blow up at a later, unrelated time.

Speaking of changing food consuming practices, we're reading a book The Millionaire Next Door. This speaks to our financial life in the same way we're addressing our "food life." It will be an interesting journey and I hope to share a bit of how things go. But probably only when they go well, knowing me. :)

Whether anyone reads this or not, I'll update periodically anyhow, for therapeutic reasons.

Later -- Peter