Bryan turns 50

Happy Birthday Bryan. Seeing Bryan turn fifty has gotten me to thinking again of the importance of enjoying one’s age. It is a lecture that I often give to Christian and Kelly. I am more thankful now than ever that God created time and that it only goes one direction. To not be able to return to an earlier age to fix something we did wrong or revisit something we enjoyed greatly is a blessing. It keeps us looking forward and helps us focus on the now. I never would have imagined that I would enjoy being forty more than thirty, and fifty more than forty, but I do. The beauty of belief in Christ is that the stronger the belief, the better it is to be older and closer to the time when we will be with Him.

From our weight loss chart, you can see that Bryan was able to lose over fifty pounds from when we started in February. He only has eight pounds to go. As soon as he loses that eight pounds, I am going to owe him dinner and I am going to very much enjoy buying it for him. He has done an absolutely stellar job of getting his weight down. While my weight loss line looks like a sine wave because I keep falling off the wagon on the weekend, the whole competition thing has kept me going and I am down close to twenty-five pounds now. Lyle is sticking to it, too. Now that he is back from convention rounds, he can refocus.