{"id":497,"date":"2008-10-13T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T08:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=497"},"modified":"2008-10-13T08:05:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T08:05:57","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/10\/13\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange weekend in some ways, very good in others.<\/p>\n<p>We had a very relaxing weekend at home.&nbsp; No plans, no major appointments or activities, just an unusually home-based weekend.&nbsp; We ran errands.&nbsp; We hung out.&nbsp; We vegged in front of the television. We got little projects worked on.&nbsp; We talked to each other.&nbsp; It was lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I found a grocery store that is not packed on Saturday mornings.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t know such things existed!&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>My blood sugar has been (well) within its boundaries since Friday when I got the glucometer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>We watched the movie <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">10,000 BC<\/span>.&nbsp; It was actually a decent movie.&nbsp; A bit predictable, but not much &#8220;bad&#8221; stuff in it.&nbsp; A surprisingly worthwhile watch.<\/li>\n<li>We bought new blinds for our bedroom.&nbsp; Two benefits of that: we could finally put one of the old ones in the nursery window, and our bedroom is now MUCH darker at night.&nbsp; So we&#8217;ve been sleeping really well for the last couple of nights!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far as the GD goes, it&#8217;s been a little strange to adjust to having to deal with it.&nbsp; My biggest concern right now is making sure I&#8217;m getting enough food at the same time as I&#8217;m figuring out what I should eat less of to keep the blood sugar at good levels.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;m doing okay.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not really hungry much, so that&#8217;s good.&nbsp; But it is hard.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be glad to finally meet with the dietician on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some things that are just plain hard for me, for sure.&nbsp; I could list a number of them.&nbsp; In fact, I just deleted 4 bullets of my &#8220;issues&#8221; today.&nbsp; It was probably good for me to write them all out, just to get them out of my head.&nbsp; But I realized as I re-read them, that they all sounded whiny and selfish.&nbsp; So I deleted them.&nbsp; I do not need to dwell on them.&nbsp; I need to turn them over to Jesus so that they don&#8217;t control my thoughts all day!&nbsp; But you can just pray for my attitude and my &#8220;issues&#8221; if you want&#8230;that will help me, too!<\/p>\n<p>And along those same lines, I do need to praise Jesus this morning.&nbsp; He has been a mighty warrior for me this weekend.&nbsp; And I was reminded again of the powerful reality of the promise in Galatians 5, &#8220;Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.&#8221;&nbsp; When I turned my issues over to Jesus and re-tuned my heart to the Spirit&#8217;s leading, there returned joy, peace, love, and the rest of the fruit of the Spirit.&nbsp; And my habits of fear, worry, anxiety (the lusts of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">my<\/span> flesh) lost their power over me.&nbsp; I love how the power of Scripture and the promises of God are truly enough for the trials that we face.&nbsp; Praise him!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange weekend in some ways, very good in others. 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