Wherever you go "there you are"

 Several years ago I sat down and began a journey. I wanted to write a book. All my life up to that point (I was 50 at that time) I had longed for someone to come along side and help guide me toward freedom. I wanted to find freedom from calories, carbs, credit cards and well, ultimately from myself.

Looking back as I begin the process of a re-write I realize this journey's end isn't in lowering the scale or having some money in savings, it is eternal. I learn, have victories, have set backs, move forward and trip along the way, but  what I thought was the finish line has moved, a lot.

I thought I was trying to lose weight. I thought I was learning to manage money. I thought...... My thoughts are not God's thoughts. Just overcoming my fears is much to small a task for Him. He has so much more in store for me than a good day on the scale.

As I begin re-writing this book I have just a glimmer of the "joy set before us", and it's so much better than I ever could have imagined. An eternal perspective changes everything about today.

Hope Wirta

Philippians 3

 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.