Debbie Cousins's Journal, 03 June 2021

blessings debbie!! keep being strong in the lord and the power of his might. I'm cheering you on. in the final stretch now. your strength in Christ is truly remarkable.  

I appreciate "such great a cloud of witnesses" cheering me on in this marathon. 

Excellent work. You've got a whoosh coming your way soon enough. Let's go!  

Greetings Debbie. I get so much encouragement from reading your posts. In Christ we can do all things! I have your back...I am upholding you in prayer as we travel this road together. 

Hang in there! I am glad that you are feeling stronger. 

Today is day four of my honoring of Debbie, and the theme today is decretion and diplomacy. She is exquisitely concerned about the feelings of others and wants to never hurt anyone. She is an ambassador for Christ and as such wants them to see Christ is what she does and says. She is interested in their long-term good which means their salvation and going to live with our precious Lord forever at the end of their lives here on earth. Debbie is the Administrator of the “Christian Community” Group and also the Administrator of the Daily Accountability group. Once upon a time, I wrote a comment or reply to a FatSecret member where I wasn't careful enough in my remarks. I can't find Debbie's reply to me now, but as I remember she wrote to me telling me she had deleted my comment, not wanting the gal to take offense. Debbie said she knew my heart (a generous statement) but my words may have been misconstrued to seem critical or something similar to that. As administrator of the group, she must have had that privilege. I certainly was not offended that she did that, actually I was glad. I don't want to hurt people but sometimes I come on too strong. Debbie is wiser than I. Her tact and sensitivity are exemplary. She is really interested in the well-being of others.  

OK, satan is messing with me! This is the thired time I have tried to write and the messages get deleted before I can hit send. I've already taken my Ambien, so there will likely be a lot of errors in here because I'm just to tired to read it ofer again for revision. @Snowwhite100, THNK YOU for the kind words you have shared over the past couple of days about me. Though I in NO WAY want to hurt your feelings or make you think I'm mad at you, which I am NOT, I must ask that you quit writing these "tributes to Debbie." I appreciate that there are some things I waas able to do in the past that were a blessing to you. Right now, at this stage in my life, ALL GLORY for anything good that comes out of me has to be directed to the Lord. If I make my goal by Decenber 27th, it will be ALL His doing! This is not something that I could do on my own strength. So, let's all try to contemplate on the things the LORD is doing - in my life or others'. He needs to be the one on stage winning all the awards. Truly, without Him I could do NOTHING. If you have more things you wanted to say, can we save them for another time? A time when there is something I can say I've had a part in brinbing about. At this juncture of my life, it's ALL GOD! Without Him, I wouold be eating every hour and a half, and eating whatever I want and however much I want to eat at those gluttonous timse. I'm still on wobbly knees with regard to this weight-loss goal. There is no way humanly possible that I can achieve it. If it's going to be won, it has to be won by God. I wouldn't even try! So, no more tributres to Debbie but rather, giving thanks to the name of Jesus for the things that HE is accomplishing, with me just as an onlooker. I'm not the least bit mad or upset with you for doing this, J, butI just feel like ALL GLORY should be going to the Lord right now, especially with regard to this fast.