WHO IS WATCHING?

After the serious bicycle accident in December of my seventy-ninth year, I was in the hospital, finding from the doctor’s consultation that I had two pelvis fractures and one fracture in the clavicle. “You will be off your feet for at least three months,” the doctor said. “Don’t go gaining twenty pounds.” I confidently assured him that I would not. But off my feet, in a wheelchair for several weeks and off the bike, I didn’t weigh for months. An awful reality stared me in the face when I finally stepped on the scales: I was up eight pounds.

Who is watching? I think in my head, “Are angels watching me?”

Whenever I think I’ll take a second big tablespoon of peanut butter on my celery stick (and what is a big tablespoon? It is a “mountain”, all you can fit on the top of a tablespoon); or, if I’m thinking about another “tablespoon” of ice cream, (you know… heaping).

At night (always thinking I’m hungry going to bed,) I put everything necessary into the refrigerator and there right in front of me is a slice of Muenster cheese in the container. “Don’t,” says my mind. Discipline yourself! It is hard to lose weight.

"For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee..." Luke 4:10. What does that mean? For sure I disappoint myself, but are angels watching? "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." Psalm 91:11.

Accepting discipline for our lives, treating our bodies as a “temple of the Holy Spirit” is a “battle” in our head; sometimes overwhelming. But the Holy Spirit, who lives in this Temple which is our body is the Power behind this move, so we can be “ready.”  "What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." I Corinthians 6:19,20. I’m down three pounds so far…and back on the bicycle.