Lingering Past

Occasionally I still linger on my past, those terrible days before I met Jesus as my Saviour. It sometimes takes effort to see where I am now as to where I was then. Read my story backwards if you will.

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Finally, someone told me about Jesus. This Jesus, the Son of God, loved me so much that He came to earth to live and then die on a cross—just for me. He rose from the dead—-just for me. 

When I asked Him into my life, He forgave all my sins. His Holy Spirit came to live in me.  With His help, I was able to give up my addictive lifestyle. I wrote Bible Studies like ‘God, Gluttony and You’, to help others find that same freedom. 

When my husband and two children asked Jesus into their lives, we became a family united for God. No, life did not become a fairy tale story of happy ever after. We’ve been through more life struggles than most people. But God always sees us through because Jesus is the answer to every question.

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Eventually I understood that childhood abuse left me with a perpetual and passionate desire for food. My weight fluctuated like a balloon on a hot-air atmospheric binge. When the pain and memories were too great, I had a nervous breakdown. Then my eating disorder (ED) took hold. For sixteen years I suffered with bulimia.

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My food didn’t have to taste good or be good for me. Food left its crumby trails everywhere and I followed my desirous nature into the weight loss business. I wrote lots of cookbooks but I finally got brave enough to publish the full story of my fat issues in Meeting Myself, Snippets from a Binging and Bulging Mind.

 The Now of my life 

I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me. [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who gives me strength. I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency. (From Philippians 4:13, AMP).

 Prayer- Lord, we don’t want to forget where we came from and how you helped us but we don’t want to stay there either! Amen.