W3 (Women Who Worship)

There are two L-shaped darker wood office desks. Built by steelcase, very beautiful, slightly worn. They are $150.00 a piece.

Also there is a lighter wood computer desk, very nice for a bedroom or an office for $100.00. It has 3 drawers on the left and a larger door on the right, plus a shelf unit on top of the desk.  It is about 60 inches long and 22 inches wide.  We put one in our son’s room and he loves it. He uses it for homework and computer work.

If anyone is interested please call Kyle at 517-403-5179 or Ellen at 517-265-9653.

This Wednesday W3 will be meeting with the rest of the Crossroads family in the CFC auditorium to view the “Passion of the Christ” and to pray for our community to be impacted during this holiday season.  Please use your complimentary ticket and come or contact the church office at 266.1919 to get one and come at 6:30pm at the auditorium.

Hope your Bible Study is going well.  Comment here with questions or thoughts or concerns….

In His Name, Sunshine

I have kept up! I am not a statistic of those who make a new year resolution and quit in a couple weeks. My quest for a healthy lifestyle continues.

I have lost a grand total of 13.5 pounds since January 5!! I haven’t bought new jeans yet, but I tried some on and fit (although quite snugly ) into 3 sizes smaller than what I started, but my loose fitting jeans are just gonna have to work for now… I reached my 10% goal and am going for 15%, why not?!

The best part is I did most of this weight loss by diet… And now I am finally working in the exercise. At first I walked at the mall with my girlfriend a couple times a week, but she has since moved to Florida, so my walking buddy is gone! But, I now have broke out my old THE FIRM video tapes to do strength training and aerobic exercise. I have worked out 60 minutes at least 3 times a week for the last 2 weeks… I think that is a good start!

The bad part about all this is… My sagging skin. HELLO!? I am still in my twenties, I am supposed to have taut, wrinkle free skin. My belly looks like a 100 year old ladies face! I guess the bikini I was hoping to get into is out of the question…. But, I suppose that is the evidence of my dear son… He leaves a ’stretchmark’ on my life!

Thanks for your support and for those who are noticing my weight loss. I challenge you to a quest for health! PS… I found some great ice cream treats that are full of fiber so it makes up for the sugar! But, I haven’t figured out how to get the cheese in daily.

Sunshine

Opportunities are available at every step we take.

In two weeks, Crossroads is taking the opportunity as a church body to view “The Passion of the Christ” and have a time of corporate prayer for the upcoming Easter holiday season.  We are hoping to impact the community and the most surefire way to do that is to pray, pray, pray for them.  If you care to join us, please stop by the WHC on Sunday to get your free ticket to reserve your seat, because only 700 people will be allowed due to fire regulations.  If you are in Motherwise or A Woman’s Heart this season, there will be NO CLASS Wednesday, March 19 so we may support this event.  The event is 6:30pm-9pm in the CFC auditorium.

Another opportunity is to serve the community by serving their children during the Easter holiday.  Crossroads is having 4 identical experiences for Easter; Saturday, March 22 at 4pm and 5:30pm and Sunday, March 23 at 9:30am and 11am!  Each experience will have opportunities for us to serve the children.  How else can we impact the 2500 people we hope will attend?  Of course this means you might have to volunteer 1 more hour that week.  That’s ok because God says we are the Light of this world, we are to show our fruit that we bear.  If you are interested in this opportunity and can spare your time, please email your name and phone number to srplato@yahoo.com and I will sign you up!

Thank you God for letting us live in a country that allows us to pray, worship and proclaim your name!  You are holy, worthy and magnificent.  Thank you in advance for the abundance of volunteers that you will have prepared for service on Easter, and the families of those who do not yet know you but will soon come to meet you through Easter weekend at Crossroads.  In Jesus’ name, Amen

You have an opportunity to write a short prayer of thanks to God right here.   Just click on the comments button and type away!

Sunshine

Does a person have to have the gift of tongues as evidence that they have received the Holy Spirit and have been saved?

A person pointed out to me that the Bible makes reference to when John baptized the disciples with water and then at Pentecost they were baptized with the Holy Spirit and evidence of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues…  They were not to preach or do their ministry work until they were baptized with the holy spirit.

Mark 16:17, Acts 2:4, Acts 10:46-48 all speak of this but I am confused….  Anyone interested in explaining this.   Provide Bible references please…

Sunshine

Life is full of them.  It seems we have to choose between everything.  What will I wear each day?  Which route to work will I take?  Who will I email first?  When will I take my lunch break?  Will I do my Bible Study lesson tonight or wait til tomorrow?

I don’t know about you but I don’t like making decisions.  I tend to default to my husband as much as possible and let him help me with great decisions, like where will we eat for dinner on our date night?   He usually decides and I agree.  It’s not that I don’t like making the decisions, I just don’t like the consequences of the decisions I make.  I am fearful that I might make the “wrong” decision.  Thus, poor consequences.

As a leader type, I am forced to make decisions on a regular basis that affect others.  It’s not easy and I sometimes get it wrong, but I default most of those to the Lord.  I pray for His guidance and His leading and hope that I hear Him when I follow through with my decisions.

At this moment I am deciding on what to eat for dinner.  For those that read this blog, you know I am following the WW plan and have lost 10 pounds in 7 weeks!  Woo-hoo!!  But, it has not been easy.  What is has done is forced me to make “healthy” decisions most of the time.  Except last night when I went with a friend to Frosty Boy.  And my stomach is paying the consequences for it now…

I think I will choose to eat a small salad for dinner.  Or sweet peas and chicken.  Or  tuna helper… Or….  AGHHHHHHH!  The choices are too much for me.

Anything you have trouble with choosing?

Sunshine

Last night at Bible Study was soooo nice!  I loved it.  Most of the ladies showed up, there was sharing at every table and looked to me like genuine laughter and connections were formed.  All because we were being introduced to God in the wilderness!  This is exactly what Bible Study is to be about.  Community and Friendship while we grow closer to the LORD!  Praise God that He is Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord who Provides….

I hope you had as great a time as I did.  The video was pretty amazing too.  I really liked when Beth talked about her friend who lost a child and Beth saying to God, there is no way I could endure that.  And God reminding her that His Grace and Mercy is dependent upon our circumstance.  In essence, He was telling her, No, you couldn’t endure that now because I have not supplied that much grace to you, because your circumstance does not need it at this moment.

I think it is wonderful that we don’t have to endure other people’s “stuff”.  For those that know me, I lost my only son two years ago 5 days after birth and God’s grace sustained and sustains me.  I could endure it because God gave me what I need.  But, I have a friend right now who’s husband is out of work and they sold their home and have two weeks to move out and don’t know where God is sending them.  She has been trusting the Lord, but has called me for spiritual support  on occasion.  The other day, she said, I don’t know why I am complaining to you.  You have endured so much more than I have.  And I told her, I wouldn’t trade situations at all.  There is a reason God gives us our “stuff” and he supplies exactly what we need to get through it.  I KNOW I cannot endure what she is going through.  I am way too much a planner and I would be broken.  Isn’t this funny?  And does anyone else know what I am talking about?

What did you like most from Bible Study this week?  What questions do you have from the homework?  Do you have a story to share?

Click on the comments button and share.  Don’t be shy.  This is another “table” discussion if you will…  Let’s work this community!  Others are waiting for you to be the ‘first’ one…

Sunshine

So I feel kinda silly writing about my weight watchers experience while these other ladies are writing about organic and cooking, and no sugar, OR no sugar substitutes. I personally am not ok with cooking everything. I like my food convenient and easy to do. I don’t have time to do all the cooking, not to mention learn HOW to cook. I drink water, but I WILL not drink juice. I think it is TOO much sugar and carbohydrates.

Anyway, I will continue to let you know my progress since I have already begun. This week makes the beginning of the 4th week of WW. I have lost a total of 6 pounds!!! YEAH! That is great! I lost 2 pounds from last week! And I went down a pants size!!

I think I can stick this out. I love food, but this feeling of accomplishment is so good. I ate a reese’s peanut butter cup tonight. It was good and it fit into my budget!!

Tell me how your quest for health is. If you are doing WW, let me know and we can be accountable for one another.

Sunshine

Hello Readers,

I told you the last time I blogged how sad I was that the new diet left me without cheese and ice cream. It makes me sad. Actually though, I have broke down and officially joined the online WW, so I can get some better information and correct planning. It is not REALLY a diet, but a plan for a lifestyle change and I like it.

I weighed in tonight after 3 weeks of this plan and I have lost 4 pounds! YEAH! That is about 30% of my goal and I am ecstatic. I haven’t yet done well on the exercise. My goal is to exercise 3-4 times a week and so far it has been once a week. Looks like I have something more to work on.

I have asked my husband to consider buying us an elliptical machine. He is considering. We haven’t come to a firm conclusion, but I would say that he is leaning heavily in favor for it.

One more thing before I go… Just a reminder to our Crossroaders: Night of Praise is this Wednesday at 6:30pm in the Auditorium. Hope you will consider attending and spending a couple hours devoted to praising God and being fed the Word of God. I will save you a seat if you leave a reply for me to. Come hear what He has to say to you!!!

Sunshine

I have been unable to blog about much because of the new year, preparing for the new study and just plain lazy.   Well, not really.

I started a quest for better eating and exercise habits, so I began the weight watchers diet.  And not OFFICIALLY.  I just borrowed grandma’s old copies of the first week of materials and am trying it out.  My goal is to lose 10-15 pounds and exercise 3-4 times a week.

Man, this diet is hard!!  I eat pretty decent, normally.  Before the diet, I typically avoided unnecessary carbohydrates, drink fat free milk, I buy only whole grain LIGHT bread and crackers, eat fruits and vegetables,  and control (for the most part) portion sizes.  But, for the last year or so, I have teetered back and forth between 4 pounds.  So, I decided to really give a diet a try.

IT IS NOT EASY!!!  I LOVE cheese… I put it on everything.  But, WW is not fond of cheese.  It seems that if I choose cheese, then I have to skip breakfast or miss that piece of fruit for lunch.  So, I reeeeeaaaaally miss cheese.  And it has only been a week.  Another thing is ice cream.  I am usually really good about portion size for ice cream.  1/2 cup is the right size and on my previous plan (when I was pregnant with gestational diabetes), I was allowed to eat this amount of ice cream and I did probably 4 times a week for my snack.  But, WW thinks this is too much fat, so I had it one time and I was starving the rest of the night because I used up my points.

I am going to try real hard to stick with this plan and so far after one week I have lost 1.5 pounds.  YEA!  But, tonight is date night for me and the hubby and I just don’t know how I am going to eat small portions at Red Lobster !

Oh well, I guess this is a female thing and even though I don’t necessarily HAVE to lose this weight (I am not technically overweight if you consider BMI), I just want to make my jeans fit better, they have become too snug.

Here’s to the age old New Year’s Resolution to “lose weight and exercise more”!!!!

Sunshine