Celebration of a New Beginning + Pictures
Well, Thursday was the big day….ONE YEAR since I deliberately binged and then immediately purged. ONE YEAR!!! I MADE IT! I was going to update on Thursday to celebrate but I was busy with the Concordia Seminary wives on campus. But yes, I made it ONE year!!!! I am really proud of myself. And all to the glory to God. I definitely couldn’t have done it without Him. I prayed and struggled but He saw me through all those days, hours, minutes and seconds and He made me a new person. It’s true, with his Guidance, anything can happen…even a mess like me can become a new beginning!
But I have to continue about weight. Since the surgery of September 7 of this past month, I have gone up three sizes in clothes. I’m nearing the last highest weight I have ever been which was 140 lbs. I seriously have to start watching what I eat, when and how much. Plus, I have to get into exercising again. Not hardcore, but within reasonable sense. If I am 140 lbs, that means i have to be around the higher weight of a BMI scale, or even overweight. This isn’t good because the pins that are in my ankle can only have SO much weight on them. I fear about doing more damage to the ankle by weighing as much as I do. I haven’t even started walking on the "screwed" up foot because the doctor hasn’t said okay to that yet. I actually have two to three more weeks of a cast and then I can go back to work with a big black ski boot on and keep the boot on for the whole time i am awake. I just worry about my ankle and the pressure the pins are under. I might as well be honest in saying that I worry about my weight being this high too and might be placing blame on the pins as a way to be obsessed with the weight….do you see what I mean? I know God will get me thru it. He always has….HEY He’s gotten me this far hasn’t He?
So about the trip….IT WAS FABULOUS!!!! I met more wives and added them to the wife’s group for the Specific Ministry Pastoral Program Facebook page, a private page for us wives that are challenged in our own environment having a Pastor for a husband. This page is an extremely vital page because we all come together and support each other in everything we do. We may complain, ask for guidance and prayers, or lift each other up in joy for accomplishments. I organized the page for the group. It’s sort of my type of thing to do. I had to individually add all the wives to my Facebook page and then add them individually to the group page due to privacy settings. However if a wife is a friend of another wife, the first wife has permission to add the second wife. But I take joy in this page. It really is good to see the support we give to one another.
Anyway, we went to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. VERY PRETTY!!!!
We also went to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery as well. Had a lot of fun there, minus the 20 minute climb uphill in the wind and chill on my knee scooter because they couldn’t get me on the trolley back to the welcome center at the Brewery. That was ROUGH!!!
We went shopping at the St. Louis Galleria. I got NOTHING because that’s when I realized when trying on stuff that I went up two sizes more after being a size 6 two weeks prior. Not fun.
We had multiple Bible Studies with the wives of the President of the Seminary and the President of the SMP program. THAT ALL was uplifting. I had a very LOOOOOONG discussion with the President’s wife of the SMP program about my own mother. My Mother says because I am the Pastor’s wife, I HAVE to be heavily involved in the church. We discussed healthy measures to take to tell my Mom, that I am in fact heavily involved, it may not be as heavily involved as SHE is, but I am involved, and ways to tell her I am not being Lead to follow in certain areas of involvement. Like the Bell Choir….or the Quilting group…..or the Lutheran Women Missionary League, or being the Secretary of the Congregation…etc, etc. YES, my Mom wants me to be involved in everything. And I do mean EVERYTHING.
Overall I really enjoyed myself. It was a lot of fun!
This bottom picture is just SOME of the Pastors and their wives.
And last but not least, my hubby and I.
And finally me.
