The 7 Project

A friend of mine read this book called "7".  The writer chronicles a project that she calls "7"....she calls it "An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess" it's by Jen Hatmaker

My friend decided it would be fun to get a group of ladies together to put this project in action here in our own community.  I love a good challenge, so I signed up.

Project overview:
Each month fast or limit yourself to 7 choices.  Month one: FOOD.  Limit yourself to only seven foods for a whole month.  Only water to drink.

I am on day 9 of the project.  Let me tell you....this is HARD.  I love sugar.  I mean, I LOVE sugar.  I think coffee is just an avenue for sugar and cream.  I think desserts should always be over the top.  Sugar is one of my main food groups.  To say I am in detox is putting it lightly.  I just got over the shakes and it's been 9 days.  Pathetic I know.

Things I have learned so far:
1.  I reat that it takes 6 days for sugar to leave your system.  I am clearly an addict as it's been 9 days. Yikes!
2.  If you eat the same 7 foods for at least 9 days, it will make you sick.
3.  The sick feeling you get will remind you of the sick and starving children and families around the world.
4.  My heart aches for the moms who cannot feed their kids and for the kids who can't grow because of the lack of food.
5.  I have not prayed like this in years.  Food is a constant reminder that I need something to survive.
6.  I need God like I need food.

The group I am in has a blog called www.7atlanta.blogspot.com

There are some pretty funny ladies with some great hearts in this group.  I can't wait to see how God moves here!!

I am on a mission

I have been reading the book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller.  It is a great book.  I have been inspired and it reminded me of a friend I had in college.  She saved every ticket stub, written on napkin, and disposable coaster from every event she ever went to in college. She was a double major in business AND art.  She was one of those people who used both sides of her brain.  She was artistically organized and woefully smart.  She could create business charts with numbers that looked like they hung in an art gallery.  She was amazing.  We all became Christians right around the same time in college.  What I envied most about her, among a ton of other things, is how she documented her life.  She would fill up these beautiful hard back journals with her exquisite handwriting and souvenirs and pictures.  Anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one of these and given the opportunity to scroll through the pages knew that this girl made every moment count in her life.  I always wondered, at what point did she learn how to do this?  At what point did she decide to live a life that merited documentation?  Did her parents teach her to do this?  Or was she innately made to live such a cool story?   This friend went on to serve in the mission field after school and did some amazing things.  She then moved back to where she grew up  and just recently got married to a wonderful man.   Her life is definitely one worth documenting.

But aren't we all?  If God perfectly wrote us into the  script of this world, don't we all live a life worth documenting?  And if we don't think we are right now, I am recently convinced that we could be.

So here I go, I am on a mission to make my story exciting and challenging and worth documenting!