Girlfriends

Goal #2 - Get to 185 lbs by 02/20/2010
10 weeks to go
Goal #2 Starting Weight: 206 lbs
Current Weight: 202 lbs.
Weight Loss This Week: -2 lbs
Total Goal 2 Weight Loss: -4 lbs
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Starting Weight: 242 lbsTotal Weight Loss: -40 lbs

I love my girlfriends. I don't know what I'd do without them some days. Girlfriends are the sisters God lets us choose for ourselves.

There's a group of ladies I have started to get together with from time to time. We met at various functions through The Joy FM. Some of us have been featured on The Morning Cruise, some not. Some of us are writers, and some of us are professional protectors. Some of us are a little on the kooky side, and some of us are delightfully sane. Some of us are struggling financially. Some of us are battling addictions. Some of us have loving families, but some of us are struggling with certain important relationships within those units. Some of us have raised our children. Some of us are still doing that. Some of us are doing that without a partner. We are blondes, brunettes, and redheads, and some of us have forgotten what our original hair color was. Our eyes are brown, blue, hazel, and green.

We have met each other at concerts and at The Joy FM on The Morning Cruise. Some of us have never laid eyes on some of us! Some of us have a lot in common. Some of us have only a couple of things in common. Some of us are quite "talky" and some of us struggle to get a word in edgewise... ya'll know which group I fall into, don'cha?

The one thing that we all share without variation is our love of Christ. We're not all at the same place in our lives, since we are all different ages and backgrounds. None of us are perfect, of course, but we all know that Christ loves us perfectly. We have enough different from each other to keep us interested, and enough the same as each other to recognize ourselves in each other. We pray for each other, encourage each other, and inspire each other.

I know that I could call on any one of my Sisters in Christ with whatever dilemma I was having, and she would be on the run to help me in any way that she could. And the same goes for me - I'd do anything for them. We've gotten through some pretty rough patches in our lives just by listening to what one another have to say about the particular bugaboo that we're struggling with.

I encourage you to start a circle of friends that you can adopt for your own Family in Christ, whom you can be a support for, and who will support you as well. If you've been waiting for someone to approach you, don't wait any more. Maybe God is telling you through me that its time to get started!