Down Five Pounds!!!

I'm going to start reporting my weight more, because It gives me hope and determination. So I check this morning and I dropped 5 pounds. I'm 235. So I need to drop another 70 before I reach my goal. Today, I encountered much temptation, although I didn't dwell on it. I went into two grocery stores, and even had the urge to get a great take-n-bake pizza from Papa Murphy's. In good time, but not without some serious hard work, and changing the way I see things.

Doesn't everyone seem to have a diet figured out? Everyone knows what to do. I have family members (not immediate, I say...) who shove advice in my face every holiday of how to pull it off. For some reason it never worked for them. Without being overly critical, my whole opinion of the dieting scene has changed. It's all about life-style modification.

On a different note, I watched the Adventures of Pinocchio, today. You may have scene it in the cheap $5 bin at Wal-Mart. This is the version with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Martin Landau. It's supposed to be more like the original story, however it wasn't as much as it could've been. The original story by Carlo Collodi, who died before the 20th Century, and never even saw what Disney did to his creation, painted a totally different story. Pinocchio was rather HORRIBLE to Geppetto, his creator. He had him put in jail. He sells his school book that Geppetto bought him by selling his only coat, just to see a marionette show. He also killed the cricket that Disney would later name Jiminy, and his ghost is actually the conscious. Of course, he got with the program and changed his ways later on, but there's such a sadness when you think about the situation of Geppetto trying to care for his creation that continually pushes him away. There's such a similarity between mankind and God there. One of my recent facebook statuses I posted was a quote I thought of myself. "Real life begins when you wake up from the nightmare of sin into the salvation of Jesus Christ."

So things are going great for me right now, which means troubles probably just around the corner. I'm subbing almost every day this week. Tomorrow, I get another day of In-School-Suspension, which surprisingly wasn't that bad last time. We shall see... Thank you guys and have a great week!

In Christ,

Rich Jones
www.richjonescomedy.com

Romans 8:18 - "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."