How Spiritual Unrest is a lot Like Diet Unrest

“For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” ~ Psalm 30:5 

Diet Struggles Can Reap Great Joy! 

Spiritual Unrest is one of the most troubling situations in life. It’s stressful, it lies in a Valley of Unsurety, and when a person is experiencing such, it’s virtually impossible to concentrate on anything else going on in life. But when God gives the answer, there is suddenly great joy to be found.

Struggling with your diet mirrors Spiritual Unrest. While dieting, you may be filled with great joy and success as you are accomplishing great strides in reaching your weight loss goal. Then suddenly, something goes haywire. You find it extremely difficult to remain true to your diet.  

You’re miserable; on one hand you want to continue your diet and on the other hand, you just want it all to go away.

The stress and bother of the situation suddenly outweighs the benefits that you hope to receive. You find yourself completely obsessed with thoughts of your diet and there’s just no almond joy - WAIT…..I mean, JOY - there is no JOY to be found.

When you reach this low point in your diet, stick with your diet and become stronger and more committed than ever to your plan.

It’s generally at this point, if you remain steadfast, you’ll see a tremendous jolt to your scales. Think of what might have been lost if the diet hadn’t been tossed by the wayside!!

You may have - or known someone who has been on a diet and just quit cold turkey. They were in the situation described above, and just couldn’t ‘wait it out’. A couple of days after going off the diet, you may have noticed that your weight seemed to actually go down!  

Keep in mind that when you are fixing to have a notable drop in weight, you’ll generally get depressed, or feel intensely hungry. Simply reassure yourself that by sticking with your plan, you’ll experience great JOY right around the Diet Corner! 

From: http://www.thelostvineyard.com/

 Friendly, sensible advice to be sure to keep your spirituality filled throughout your diet. When I deal with spiritual unrest, I do not succeed with my diet. I had a weekend with struggle, but I know today Whom to turn to. For others it may be different. What correlation, if any, do you see?