Day 4: Victory!

Here's one of my deep dark secrets: I love the candied fruit you find in fruitcake. In fact, I've been known to buy it once it goes on clearance after Christmas and eat it right out of the container. Shameful, I know. All it is is sugar and artificial coloring. This is my second small container, and it's all gone now. But here's where the victory part comes in: today I was in Publix and as I cruised by the clearance rack I noticed that they had some candied cherries on clearance (it was a really good price too!). I picked them up to put them in my cart....and then I put them back down. I resisted the urge to bring those babies home with me. I just bought a book called "Made to Crave" by Lysa Terkeurst, which is all about replacing your cravings for other things (food, clothes, "stuff") with a craving for God. I've heard her speak about this on the radio several times in the last couple of days, and although the philosophy is not new (you're trying to fill some "hole" in your life, so find out what it is and you'll stop overeating) I think she may have a different approach. At least it seems like God is trying to get my attention on this subject. Stay tuned to see if anything I read actually causes me to change my ways!