Bacon Strength & Performance

I’m as guilty of this as the next person. If some of y’all could read my mind when I talk to myself about my own shortcomings, you’d feel better about yourselves. Thankfully, I’ve become better about this over the last year or so, once I realized how much my own negative self-talk affected my own psyche.

I saw post something a day or two ago that said “if you talked to your best friend the same way you talk to yourself when you “mess up on your diet” or make a mistake because you’re human, you wouldn’t have a best friend anymore.”

We all need to offer ourselves a little more grace from time to time. Just yesterday I went a little (a lot) overboard and bought a bag of funyons, bacon & cheddar potato skin chips, cheez it party mix and a large bag of flamin hot Cheetos. Ate every bit of each of those and half a thing of double stuff Oreos. Do I feel like 🗑️ today, yeah, who wouldn’t after eating all that junk. But do I hate myself bc I made a poor choice? No, certainly not! I’m getting back to it today and forgiving and forgetting yesterday’s shortcomings.

1 Corinthians 13 tells us that “love keeps no record of wrongs.” I think we tend to read this passage at weddings and apply it to our marriages or relationships with our significant others, but fail to realize that this can, and does, also apply to our relationships with ourselves.

So have some grace for yourself when you slip up or aren’t perfect, whether in your fitness journey or just in life. God doesn’t hold it against you, so you shouldn’t hold it against yourself.
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“But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.”

‭‭-2 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬ ‭
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Had no idea what I was going to post for but then my mom shared this excerpt with me from her Bible study this morning and I knew I just needed a quote to match. Then saw the quote from Kobe and knew it wasn’t a coincidence. So I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but here you go:
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“We often think of a desert or wilderness as something we want to get out of. But the Jewish people view the desert as the place where the Lord often meets His people and speaks to them.

The Lord met Moses in Exodus 3 in the desert and spoke to him. The Lord gave His Torah to His people at Mount Sinai in the desert (Ex. 20). He met Elijah in the desert and spoke to him in "a still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12, KJV). The Spirit led Jesus into the desert after His baptism. Angels attended to Him after His forty-day fast, His encounter with the devil, and His temptings (Matt. 4:1-11).

In the desert- the wilderness -God meets us and teaches us unique lessons that these dry and barren places frame in a way no other place would. In the Middle Eastern culture, the wilderness is seen almost as a sacred place, a place of intimacy, where God speaks a "word" (davar) to you…

…When we are in a desert or wilderness season of life, we often ask, "How long do I have to be in this wilderness or desert?" Or we ask, "How do I get out of this difficult wilderness season?" But in the Middle East, they ask the questions, "How do I carry the wilderness with me?" "How do I remember the word the Lord taught me in the wilderness?"

- , Jesus and Women
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So enjoy ‘the wilderness’ for what it is: an opportunity for you to allow God to grow you through this season. The harder, the better.

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