iona's blog

It's a journal. It's a devotional. It's a record of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor. It's documentation of God's activities in real time. There are good days and bad, happy times and sad... I tell it like it is. This is an unscripted walk along the meandering paths of my mind. My life has never been dull... and I've never known boredom. Read on, you'll see...

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Name: Iona Hoeppner
Location: Kissimmee, Florida, US

I am a happily married mother and grandmother of a large family. I've also had several careers including writer, teacher, trucker, investment and finance advisor, web master and artist. I am an ordained minister (not to the pulpit) and consider my calling to Christ's service my most important role in life.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Lost Blog

I just spent over an hour writing a blog that has disappeared accompanied by the little piano key two tone death knoll Blogger gives you as it sends your work to oblivion. BOO! It's probably caused by some spasmodic motion on my part as my fingers lurch and twitch over the keyboard seeking letters for words and thoughts I am forgetting faster than I can record them. Trouble is, I have no hint of what the fatal key strokes are... like that would make any difference, haha.

Although I was mildly satisfied with what I'd written, it was no great piece of prose, hence not a tragic loss. Mostly, I had expressed gladness at being back in church and discussed my thoughts on the diet and exercise plans I've committed to.

What I am noticing, unlike my previous dieting efforts - all short lived and disappointing -- with NutriSystem, I am not hungry! I often don't even want all the food I am supposed to eat. I'm not sure how they interlace proteins, carbs and fats so that blood sugar levels stay under control and big insulin spikes are avoided. I'm sure the regular exercise is helping big time, too.

I am one who loves and craves sweets and this plan gives me a nice dessert every day. God is answering my prayers about losing weight and keeping it of... minute by minute. My reliance on Him and my renewal IN HIM IS MOMENT BY MOMENT IN ALL THINGS.

Richard and I enjoyed an hour long walk this evening. It was good, invigorating, romantic and something we'll be doing a lot more often. For once, I actually think I can lose the weight, enjoy exercising and become am better looking, healthier and happier me.

I'll still have my version of the infamous Snider-Cooper jowls, but I've had them since birth and like Loretta Switt on one M.A.S.H. episode, will simply consider them an alluring, though offbeat feature of my own unique brand of beauty, designed by my loving Heavenly Father just for me.

I'll bet the Lord had a lot of fun creating all the different faces and figures of His children. I'll bet he laughed a lot, and maybe cried a little, at our silly phobias and rejections of our own features.

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