Girl...Get up and do it again

Have you ever seen the fight scenes in a movie where the boxer is down, and his handler is yelling Get up! from the side?  Have you ever imagined that this is your life?  Knocked down and the referee is pounding the floor beside you counting out?


That was me this week.  I felt so down and out.  I am battling a cold and flu that I got from taking care of my grandson last week end. It was quite an effort to get up out of bed the last few days and to be honest, I had to succumb to its lure one of those days.  I just slept for hours having taken my meds and putting my CPAP mask I was out.


However, that moment of lying down was not a permanent pose for me, I got up.  That boxer sometimes defies all odds and gets up again ready to fight it out till the last bell has rung.  You and I can get up and do it again. 


We don't have to stay locked down, face down or even get down in the choices of yesterday.  We can get back up and yes, do it again.  So, you didn't exercise last week, last month, last year...get up and do it now.  So you ate that muffin, drank that sugary drink, indulged in the chocolate bars...get up from that down and do the right thing today.  Yes you can do it again.


So be encouraged as I am right now.  I look at myself and I tell you the truth, at times my eyes tell me all sorts of things.  It says girl, you still have not made it.  You are still heavy.  You are still.... you can fill in your own blanks.  So what is my come back to myself, the mirror and my world.  So what?  I don't have to stay here, I get the chance to get up and do it again.


So "here here" to everyone who decides that quitting is not an option as we strive to lose the weight.  "Hooray!" to everyone that struggles up from that downward knocked out position.  "Well done" to everyone that right about now has a made up mind and a can do attitude.  Take a bow and a pat on the back. 








Lord,
I know that I cannot do this on my own.  Father send me the help I so desperately need to lose this weight.  In the mean time Lord, I thank you for constantly reminding me that you are the hand that holds on to mine as I walk through life.  Though I fall I will not be utterly cast down for your hands holds me up.  Oh what a wonderful word.  thank you Lord for being consistent and true in my life.  I praise you now in Jesus name,


Amen.