Good Job

I stay hopeful that the world will have peace.

I hope for an end to the violence that young people continue to inflict on each other. I hear so many talking about their fights and murders as a badge of honor. I took my grandson to the park today and there were teenagers talking abou the fights that they had in school or that they witnessed or heard about. I heard a teacher tell of a student who is in summer school now. He has the standard bracelet from the law on his ankle. When she asks for his name he says, Dont you know me, I killed so-and so. Its the cool thing to do, get into a fight. To shoot somebody. These are our children who are not involved in any social skills programs so they spend their time talking about negative stuff. Why aren't they at the pool or at some sort of camp. I know there are many different things they can become occupied with over this summer.

How is it that someone can belittle your achievements with just a very snide remark, made totally without intent to hurt. When you recognize a true problem with yourself and your community, you decide that by joining a challenge, you can help yourself and your community. You compete with other churches, even megachurches to lose weight and improve your health. Obesity is a huge problem in the African American community so any chance to address the problem and highlight the possibilities of improving your health, maybe changing or reducing your medication is always a plus. We know that weight loss is a hard thing and that the faith community is sorely in need of a change. When we look at the community there are huge numbers of people overweight and its not just the women. Its nice to hear from your leader, "Well done, good job" We all hope to be examples for others who many find the thought of losing weight too challenging. Its not a matter of glamour. Most of these women are not looking to get into bikinis or modeling. Most are just trying to get healthier, increase their energy level. Maybe walk up and down stairs without being winded. Reduce their blood pressure, lower their dose of insulin. Most of the women who participated were older and more mature. While I was not there every week I did attend some of the meetings and I grew to appreciate the determination and dedication of the women. Our goal was to do something for our church. We were able to stay devotedand determined and come out the winner of the church challenge. We won for the church $5500.00. That's a nice tidy sum of money. We didnt say how to use it and still don't really care. We didn't say use it for the women's bathroom. I wouldn't have minded if you used it to pay the air conditioning bill because we really could have used it on Sunday. Redoing the bathroom is necessary to calm the women. Women who are loving and devoted to you. Women who will do anything for you. I don't complain, I just wonder what we did to deserve the callous and half hearted mention of the endeavor. I'm sure there is going to be something from Weight Watchers, but we really wanted some acknowledgement from you.  Well Done good and faithful son/daughter. We are not known by our deeds but by our heart. We all try to do our best at whatevr it is we can do. Everyone can'd do everything but some people can do some things.

This was just my thoughts on this, you can take it with a grain of salt.

Be blessed and be a blessing.