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What a difference 7 years makes

Left picture taken 12/4/13, right picture taken 12/4/20

Wow! What a difference 7 years makes.

The woman on the left was 20 pounds overweight, full of insecurities, suffering from anxiety, depression, and digestive issues. The woman on the right still has days where she deals with anxiety and depression, but the main difference is that the woman on the left struggled with finding her worth and value in what the scales said and what others thought about her.

The woman on the right has since learned that as a child of God, her worth and value are in what He says about her. I have been a Christian since I was 15 and I am now 46 years old. It has taken me 31 years, and many difficulties in my Christian walk, to fully trust God’s word and what He says about me. Once I finally got to the point where I was leaning on God and seeing myself the way that He sees me, then I started taking better care of myself by eating better, taking supplements, and even seeing a Christian counselor.  And, over time, I noticed the weight started coming off without much effort. 

I’m not where I want to be weight wise since I still have a few more inches that I would like to lose. However, I am finally at a place in my life where I am not letting what the size of my clothes or the numbers on the scale say about my self-worth. I’ve also noticed that the more time I spend building my relationship with God, the more confidence and peace I have.

I made an important decision

This post showed up in my memories today and I wanted to share it again. Especially since I didn’t officially quit smoking until February of 2011 when I ended up getting bronchitis and was forced to quit. I tried the patches, gum, etc., but nothing seemed to help. It was only by the grace of God and an app that I had at the time that allowed me to continue to smoke, while slowly weening myself off of them. 🙂

TABrownWV's avatarTiffany Brown

After 14 years & this past week, I made an important decision to “kick the habit” and quit smoking for good. I started smoking when I was 21 & quit once back in 2004 for 30 days. But stress do to work & other personal problems caused me to start back up again.

I came to this decision after my best friend’s mom was recently hopitalized with breathing problems, which turned out to be COPD, as well as, a viral pnuemonia. She’s in her late 50’s & has been a smoker since her teens – I believe. I went to visit my friend last Saturday & we went over to the hospital to check up on her mom. She had been in there for about a week & she was on a ventilator. They tried taking her off of it for a couple of hours, but had to put her…

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Poetry Foundation

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BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
— Read on www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken