Being kind to your body

Recently I needed to go shopping to buy a long, formal gown for the Dance With Me princess ladies’ retreat in Springfield, MO. I haven’t worn a floor-length, formal dress in years, have put on a LOT of winter weight since last year, plus I am very picky when it comes to buying clothes. These things made the shopping an all-day event before I finally found a dress (on sale)! 

Although it felt great to dress up and look pretty, and I had a BLAST, after I looked at the pictures of the retreat I realized that I couldn’t tell myself that it was just that “the camera adds ten pounds.”  The camera doesn’t add THIS much weight. Yes, I seriously need to do something to get into shape!

My life/business coach Cindy Rushton and our daughter Heather Denney have both been inspiring me to lose weight this year through changing their eating habits and exercising, and I am now reading what I can on the subject and applying what fits (pardon the pun!). 

Cindy hired a fitness coach, changed her diet, and has now advanced from walking and working out in the gym to being in 5K races!  Heather started using The Belly Fat Cure diet (book by Jorge Cruise) and progressed from taking a zumba aerobics class to teaching one. Both women have lost an incredible amount of weight , physically and emotionally feel better, and look GREAT!

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been adjusting my diet to include more salads, less fats, and less sugar – and smaller portions!   

This past week when the sun began breaking through the rain clouds again, I began walking in the morning and in the evening, listening to my Ipod filled with good worship and podcasts. I dragged the mini-trampoline out of the closet that I haven’t seen since last year (the trampoline idea was taken two years ago from Donna Partow’s book Becoming The Woman God Wants Me To Be: A 90-Day Guide to Living the Proverbs 31 Life).  Doesn’t it sound fun to bounce your way to fitness? 

I am also conciously drinking more water and trying to eat more nutritious meals at home. It’s really all about being kind to your body, taking care of yourself physically so that you can do the things God has called you to do and to be.  We can’t fulfill our destiny in Christ to its greatest potential if we are out of shape or get sick – or even die prematurely.  I desperately want to reach my potential in Christ, doing and being all He has destined me to be, for His glory.

And of course I can’t do this – or anything else in life – without God’s help.  So I am praying each day for God to help me, offering my body, my lifestyle of eating, my exercising habits, my physical fitness to Him in prayer.  He will help you, too.  He made each and every one of us, and He wants us as healthy as possible, both for our own personal comfort and well-being’s sake and for His kingdom’s.

Drop me a line sometimes to ask how I’m doing to keep me accountable, okay?  What are you doing to get into shape this year?  I’d love to hear your ideas, and any comments or suggestions about physical fitness.  Be sure to read the article below by contributing writer and life coach Susan Liddy.

“Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NLT)

Here is a GREAT, encouraging article on taking care of yourself by Life Coach Susan Liddy, 3 Tips To Getting Super-Charged!

And the winner is…

We have a winner!  The winner of my contest for a free ticket to Cindy Rushton’s Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2010 is Mary Ann Ward.  Congratulations, Mary Ann!  Whooo-hooo!   I wish ALL of you who participated in the contest could have won it.  Mary Ann, I pray the expo greatly blesses you – and it will!  I LOVE Cindy’s expo, and have been attending every year for the last several years.

Want to be part of the expo?  There’s no waiting in line. There’s no parking problems. You can listen to this expo in the comfort of your own home – even in your pj’s, if you want!  Cindy has a line-up of anointed speakers this coming week. You get all the speakers’ sessions mp3 audios which you can listen to again and again, plus free ebooks, planning pages, audio downloads, and unadvertised gifts from the speakers – plus, so much more!

I don’t attend many online events, but each year I make sure to attend this homeschool expo.  The preview chats for the past week have been such a blessing.

To be sure to get YOUR ticket to this online homeschool conference, grab your ticket today!   Here is the link:   http://tiny.cc/zwjdh.

Again, congratulations to Mary Ann, and thank all of you for participating in the contest!

Beth Jones

Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2010 is here

UHSE 2010

I don’t attend many online events through the year, but there is one event I make sure to fit into my schedule each year – the Ultimate Homeschool Expo!  It is here again, and each year it gets better and better. I have listened to the audios from last year over and over for encouragement for this school year.

Cindy Rushton has a GREAT line-up of anointed speakers this year. Even if you do NOT homeschool, these sessions will bless you so much – they are women of God with a passion for Jesus. You not only get every speaker’s mp3 audio sessions, but ebooks, bonus audios, planning pages, notebook pages, unadvertised gifts from the speakers, doorprizes and so much more! 

Just yesterday I won a doorprize at Molly Everett’s session on marriage  (Counter Cultural Mom).  She and Cindy donated Molly’s “My Audio School,” which is a wealth of online homeschooling resources!  Leah and I began to dig into it today, and it is incredible.

I am giving away one free ticket to the Expo. Just leave your name and email address with a comment here at any of my blogs or on my Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Kansas-City-MO/Beth-Jones-Christian-SpeakerWriter/187518037922?ref=mf. I will be picking a random winner by Friday, April 30, 2010.

If you want to be SURE to attend this event (and you do NOT want to miss it!), grab your ticket for the Ultimate Homeschool Expo (UHSE 2010)  here TODAY!  You will be so blessed!  Be sure to use my link to purchase your ticket.     http://tiny.cc/9zmzi

A new look for preparation of January launch

Celebrity new hairstyle

If you have noticed Tablet Of My Heart’s website appears different, it has gotten a little bit of a new look. The “search” feature is now underneath the RSS and email subscribe button at the top of the page on the right hand side. My personal mailing list sign-up for the weekly ezine has been moved down a little on the page. 

I have temporarily made some articles and other pages private to make room for some new articles and products for sale, and have added a new heading on the black navigational bar (7-audio sessions).

Kelly with FreshNets helped me with the change to my website’s search feature, so I could add the new heading (7-audio sessions) on the black navigational bar at the top of the page. The new changes are preparation for Cindy Rushton’s group coaching program class’ BIG LAUNCH in January 2010, and to make room for the new products I am working on this coming year. 

Some of the students  in Cindy’s coaching group who are EXCELLENT writers and speakers will be teaching and sharing words of encouragement on Cindy’s upcoming show in one month, so stay tuned for a VERY exciting event! You don’t want to miss this one! I can’t WAIT!

All of us students in her coaching program will be introducing our brand-new products that we began creating in her class during the four weeks in December.  I HIGHLY recommend Cindy’s coaching program. Cindy is a mighty woman of God, and she just pours out His love, wisdom, and very practical, helpful advice on making information products, based on over 20 years of great success in writing and speaking. She has another coaching program coming up soon. You can find out more at www.cindyrushton.com or email her at cindy@cindyrushton.com.

For my product in Cindy’s class, I am finishing up a 7-audio series on prayer, based on my book Walking With God, that will include freebie session questions, freebie session articles, and other goodies, in a bundle set for sale.

This audio set will include practical, useful tips for how to have that daily quiet time with God in the midst of a noisy, hectic, rushed world! So many of us wives and moms have a long to-do list every day, and we feel like we can’t squeeze in just ONE more thing.  This series will encourage you to make prayer to God a #1 priority in your life, and will give you helpful  tips for HOW to make that happen – and it does not have to take an HOUR, but in just a few minutes a day. You will see what a difference prayer can make in YOUR life and in those around you!

If you are not already signed up for my personal mailing list for my weekly ezine, sign up today so you’ll be sure to not miss any new updates or announcements about this upcoming launch in one month! 

Just go to the top of the page on the right hand side, and fill in your email address. Your email address is safe with me; I will never sell, rent, or give it away; you will NOT receive spam from me! What you WILL receive is a weekly ezine with encouragement from God’s word in mini-articles, updates on what’s new here at Tablet Of My Heart, a link to my newest podcast, and freebie articles and audios to bless you and to encourage you in your friendship with God.