20181129 - Thursday - The day after my birthday - Fay Berry

Thursday 29th November, 2018

It is the day after my birthday and today I can’t go to Inc Cafe because “My aged services” are coming to I inspect my unit and see how they can help me. I am hoping to be approved for a cleaner for my unit, some maintenance on my verandah and drive way and general weeding.

That will be wonderful. Also to look at other stuff and tell me what they can do for me.

Every year I receive a great deal of “Happy Birthday” Messages from all my friend and this year I had made up my mind to just thank everybody in one message at the end of the day. But as the messages come in and I am caused to think of all my friends, one by one, I can’t help but want to thank them. So I spent a large portion of my day thanking everyone for their messages.

Then there was my iPad. I went into Marion intending to buy a new one, because I couldn’t bear the thought of spending 2 weeks without it while it was being fixed. But then I found the shop next door that fixed phones and ipads, and so I was able to solve my problems by just buying an extra special charger which fixed my problem. So, thankfully, I had taken down my banking details and everyone was private messaging me offering to help with the purchase of a new iPad, so I was able to tell them that there was no longer the necessity for me to buy a new one. But I got so many kind friends offering to help me with the $$ for a new iPad, that I felt quite overwhelmed with all my friend’s kindness towards me.

Thank you, my friends, thank you so much.

Another wonderful thing for me that happened on my birthday is that my weight is going downwards once more. Today I stood on my scales and found that I was now 95 kg, down from my original 107 kg, a lost of 12 kg from my original weight! For me that is simply wonderful. That was the goal weight I was hoping to achieve right back in March of this year when I first began my dieting.

So the low-carb diet works. No other diet has EVER worked for me. I feel like a new woman. And I intend, God Willing, to lose even more of my circumference, because I still have that “insulin resistant” tummy sticking out in front of me. I purchased a new pair of bathers, and that tummy still shows AND drags the v-neck down too low, so it will look a lot better when I have shed more of my tummy.

Yes, one does become a little pre-occupied about loss of weight and whether your clothes fit as one gets older. But it is all about health in the long run. I felt I was practically on death’s door when I began my dieting, and since I have lost the weight I feel so much better. BUT my legs don’t work much better, so I fear I will have to lose a lot more to have any affect on my mobility.

Well, another year has passed. I HOPE AND BELIEVE, that Jesus Christ will return to the earth in 2020. Why do I believe this? Well, Jesus Christ was born (and I know there is doubt about the date)say in the year 1 AD, and he lived for 30 years after that. I believe that Jesus is set to return 2000 years after his death, which brings it to the year 2030. This is the year I believe the saints will be made immortal, and so I am guessing that Christ will return 10 years prior to that date which would bring it to 2020 which I am hoping is the year of the resurrecting of the saints.

Yes, I know you can shoot holes in my argument, but I don’t really care, because I am aiming and hoping that he WILL come in ‘around’ the year 2020, and that I will be 80 that year. If he doesn’t come, I will just take a deep breath and keep on waiting. After all I have waited 80 years already. What this hope does for me is it gives me something to aim for. Everything that happens to me, good or bad, I can always say to myself, Jesus will be here very soon so it is just not important, and just not worry about the present but focus on his return.

I try to make it real for me and it helps me in everything I do.

I am longing for that day spoken of in Ezekiel when the saints finally enter the “temple of the future age” through the east gate.

And now for my yesterday’s diet diary