A prayer to the God of My Life

Yesterday was my birthday. Birthdays are filled with fun and expressions of love from friends and family. That I was looking forward to. However, birthdays have always been occasions when I worried about the calories in a piece of cake and what I should eat that wouldn't make the scale mad at me in the morning.

All week I had been dreading my birthday dinner with friends because I was worried I would binge or worse, feel the need to compensate for it later (I think you know what I mean!)

OK. Today is the morning after. No bingeing, no purging, no laxatives. Thus, no tears! It is so freeing to let go of our worldly desires and let Christ desires be our desires.

God desires a relationship where we come to Him to be fed. To be satisfied. To find joy. To see truth and recognize lies.

True satisfaction will NOT come from overeating or from restricting. We have to come to the Living Word of God and let him transform our hearts.

"As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food all the day and night, while they say to me all the day long, 'Where is your God?'... Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God: for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God....

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. " -Taken from Psalm 42