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Day 337: Revelation!

Feeling rather accomplished!

I finished reading the book of Revelation this morning. I set a goal to read the entire bible from Genesis to Revelation about a year and a half ago. My original plan was to it in a year. I read from the NOV version ("New International Version).

Wow, it feels good to achieve a goal. I am now going to start again in Genesis, this time reading from the King James Bible. I really love the language- all those thees, thines and thous!

Now if I could only accomplish my weight loss goal!

I am doing much better with my mornings. My trick? I resist the urge to lie in bed with my Kindle, watching Doc Martin episodes, scanning Facebook or looking up recipes. I just turn off the lights t, say a prayer and go to sleep. Wow! What a concept! And what a difference it has made. Yes, I still hit the snooze button, but I am not as groggy. And I am nit as sore in the morning.

I am also continuing to take a multiple vitamin, magnesium and copious amounts of water.

I do need to step up my workouts. I go to the gym about 4 days a week and walk everyday. But I need to increase the intensity and duration. But I am pleased. I am coming up on one year of blogging about my physical, emotional and spiritual growth. I have stuck with something for nearly a year! This is huge!

I have decided to continue daily blogging after the first year. It keeps me a accountable, if only to myself.

I am still pondering psalm 28, but now I shall shareth the King James version with thee!


28 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent [1] to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2  Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 3  Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. 4  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. 5  Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6  Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7  The Lordis my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. 8  The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9  Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed [2] them also, and lift them up for ever.

Happy Monday!

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