Soul Runnings

Thursday, December 4, 2025 Good Morning Friends! Welcome to Day 1 of my Psalm of the Week study!  Today I focused on Psalm 1: 1-2.  I'm so excited! I've always been fascinated by the Psalms. Being a musician, I am particularly drawn to them sing the  Psalms are a book in the Bible of songs, prayers and poems.  Mostly written by David. Who we will meet later on! True confession: I have read the Psalms. I have listen to the Psalms being read.  I have heard them sung and chanted. But I have not really fully understood their meaning or their history.  I hope to begin to open my mind with this study. In addition, it is the longing of my heart to grow closer to God through praying and understanding the Psalms and to strengthen my faith and relationship with Him! The following post is from my Tiktok account on 11/07/2025. I realize people were most likely just viewing the graphic and not reading my commentary.  I am really doing this study for my own understa...

Hello Friends!   I'm Back!!! I kept this blog for almost 10 years! I woke up one day in May 2015, knowing I needed positive change.  Here is a copy of an excerpt of my first ever post, May 12,2015: "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy." ~Leo Buscaglia So many thoughts.  So many excuses.  So much time has gone by.  Truth is: I am 53 years old and obese.  Not pleasantly plump. Not carrying a few extra pounds.  Obese.   What a horrible word."  (If you care to visit me in the past, here is a link to my first post:  https://soulrunnings.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-time-is-now.html ) I was hyper focused on losing weight in the beginning. But as I blogged and grew, I was focusing on not only my physical, but my mental and spiritual health as well. Fast forward to today.  I am 63 years old. I have 7 grandchildren! They are the light of my life! I am still overweight, but I have managed to maintain a weig...

Hello My Long Lost Friends! Or, perhaps it was I who was lost? And now I think I am beginning to find myself!  Under layers of fat, and self loathing!  How's that for an opening line!  Or perhaps the title of a novel:  Layers of Fat and Self-Loathing! Today I stepped on the scale.  I am weighing myself every morning these days. I was shocked! I told my partner the scale must be broken!  Yesterday I weight 186. Today 185! I have been on a strict intermittent fast for the past 10 weeks. I have officially lost 12 pounds!  And the best news is I think I not only can stick to this way of eating, I am actually beginning to really enjoy it!  And look how far I've come! I've been writing since May 12, 2015.  Over 8 years now!  I know this blog post says Year Four, Day 328, but there have been many pauses in blogging. For instance, when I am not pleased with progress or simply have no words! I was 53 when I first began blogging. I am now 61. I ho...

 Dear Friends: I apologize for my long absence. Frankly, I have had not much to say. And I have been a little frustrated and ashamed of my losing my battle of the bulge. I've been continuing to exercise, but it has been said you can't outrun a poor diet!  But now that spring is here (at least that's what the calendar says!  I have heard rumors of snow mixed with rain this weekend - the last weekend in March!), I am feeling a nudge towards rejuvenation! My daughter and 3 of my granddaughters have been meeting my mom for breakfast in Vancouver every week since my father passed away in December.  It is such a delight to have this regular family time.  After breakfast, I walked up to the Vancouver Public Library. One of my favorite libraries. I used to spend a lot of time here when I lived in Vancouver. Me at my favorite library! :) Embarrassingly enough, my weight had crept up close to the big 200, closer than I would like to admit.  I have been self soothing ...

Hello My Long Lost Friends! Where does the time go?  My original goal for this blog, was to post daily about my commitment to self-improvement.  It has been roughly 4 months since my last post!  Ah, but so much life has happened in these last 4 months! OK, I must admit I just disappeared from my blog for 20 minutes googling "What is Time?" I have often pondered the concept of time. I found some fascinating reading material.  You should try it sometime!   Most articles on the subject of time, defined it as such: "Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Basically, if a system is unchanging, it is timeless. Time can be considered to be the fourth dimension of reality, used to describe events in three-dimensional space. It is not something we can see, touch, or taste, but we can measure its passage." ( From the article, "What is Time? A Simple Explanation" from the website "ThoughtCo"_ https:/...

Hi Friends! Again, I apologize for my long absence.  No excuses. No shame. Just busy trying to find balance in this life. I've been quite successful about regular gym workouts. My goal is daily workouts. Mostly in the gym.  I am currently on Day 127!   I must say, if I skip a day of exercise, I feel miserable.   However, for all of my effort, I had not lost any weight!  Granted, I have become a tad more shapely.  Here are some pictures along my journey. The first one  was taken 02/07/2022 with my son. It was our 8th day of working out together. The second one was taken 09/07/2022.   The third was taken on 09/23/2022 after about a week of preparing most of my meals at home. And being pretty strict about no dairy, focusing on grains, veggies, fruits, legumes and Indian spices. At last, the scale moved a few pounds downward.   I am attempting at long last to follow the Ayurvedic principles of dieting.  It's not a fad. It...