The Eating Pause

So, I've decided not to "catch up" on days that I missed. If I missed it, I missed it. No big deal. Today the book talked about 'the eating pause." They said that at some point when you're eating, you pause. You either put your fork down, stretch, talk with someone else, or stretch briefly. Or...sigh :) It's at this time that your body is signaling it's full, but so many miss that sign. It's interesting because I do the stretch thing, and the put down my fork/whatever I'm eating when I do it...usually vehemently haha.

It's funny how different people have different indicators, but our body's telling us the same thing. I think my biggest issue, now that I'm thinking about it, is that when I get to this "pause," I usually don't have all that much left a lot of times...it's not worth saving, but I don't want to throw it away, so I eat it anyway. Bad, bad habit. Wasting on my hips instead of throwing it away. I'm going to be more attentive to this and work on either saving my food to eat later or throwing it away...but def not eating the rest of it after...the pause.

"...but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children...we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worth of God..." vs. 7,11,12

I didn't see much in this chapter that spoke to me, except this reference to mothers and fathers. It struck me as interesting before, and it strikes me as interesting now. The descriptions remind me of my own parents, and it reminds me that God has the qualities of mother and father...and the he is not a he...he is above gender. Hm. He is the perfect combination I guess. Anyway, Thessalonians might be "one of those books." We'll see.