The Start of a New Me

I was never a "Skinny" kid growing up, but I was healthy for my age. Of course, I thought I was fat. But in reality I really wasn't.

When I was in 8th Grade I started volleyball, and I got the healthiest I have ever been. I was finally starting to be happy with my image. 

Then we moved.

Our family was put into a bad work situation, and it took a toll on all of us mentally, and physically. I had no friends, I was depressed. Which led me to become a couch potato, and emotionally eat. 

I went from a happy healthy teen, to a depressed and overweight teen. 

I continued to become depressed and over eat even after moving from PA, and I just didn't care anymore. 

I gained over 50 pounds in less than 6 months.

One day I looked at myself in the mirror, and my eyes were open. I was going down a dangerous path and I needed to change! So what if I don't have any friends where I live, I can still care about myself. My body is a temple that I need to keep healthy!

I have started  watching what I eat, I'm trying to be more active, and I have even made a weight loss account on IG to share my weight loss journey.

Since June 15 of 2015 I have gone from almost 190 Ibs to almost 169 Ibs! 

I feel like a new person, and although my weight loss journey is far from over, I can already tell the difference. 

I'm going to start volleyball again in the Fall, and I'm so excited to be able to have this opportunity to make myself healthy.

My goal is 140 Ibs by next summer (or less) and I'm excited to share my journey with you guys!

Lots of  Love,

Myra

The heart of a man

"The heart of a man is very much like the sea,

it has it's storms, it's tides and it's depths;

it has it's pearls also."

~Vincent van Cogh~

He loved us

"He loved us not because we were lovable,
But because He is Love".
~C.S. Lewis~

Because, My Dear

“Because, my dear, beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men.” (Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)

Hecitc Point of Life

Oh my gosh. I am SOO sorry for not posting in forever! I feel like a looser.
So we are in a temporary living situation until my dad gets another job, so it has been chaotic here. I apologize for being a terrible blog account.

I got a kitten for my birthday in October! His name is Jack Sparrow (from Pirates of the Caribbean), he is black and white, has green eyes, and is almost 4 months old. He is very precious <3

Jack Sparrow ^


With Love,
Myra

My Sponsor Child

Hey Guys,
I can't believe it took me this long, but I would like to share some very exciting news with you guys.
So I have my heart set on India, I want to be a missionary in India when I'm older, and that's just where God has set my heart. And I had been praying for a while about sponsoring a child, and no matter how hard I searched I could not find a christian organization that specified in India. So I just waited and prayed, knowing that if this was what God wanted me to do her would provide.

One day my mom gave me a book called "No Longer a Slumdog", and I started reading it a couple days later. I started reading it, and quickly realized it was about a christian organization that specifies in Asia. I finished the book in a day and was delighted. The reason being that this book was about an organization (GFA bridge of hope) that has a sponsorship program for kids in India! It was such an amazing moment, realizing that God had just opened that amazing door for me. I talked to my parents, and soon I was raising money and praying. Soon after I started looking at kids that needed sponsored. I looked through every single child and prayed that God would show me the one. After almost every child on my list getting sponsored (the lord is great!) the Lord put a child on my heart, telling me she was the one. A week later I got an email saying that I was a sponsor parent! It was an amazing feeling, knowing that I am changing a life of a little Girl in India.
I've been her sponsor parent for two months now.
Though this has been such an amazing journey, I have not raised all the funds yet needed to sponsor her long term. Not even close. To sponsor her until she is 18, it will be more than seven-thousand dollars. Yikes!
But as hard as it is, I am trusting that if this really is what the Lord wants, that he will provide.

I just ask for prayer, that the money will be provided and taken care of. And for my sponsor childs health and faith.

Lots of Love,
Myra


Info on my sponsor child:
Name: Persis
Female
9 years old
Favorite activities: Hide and Seek and Playing with sticks
Lives in India
Birthday: 07/10/04
We share a birth month :)

Move #8

I am so sorry that I have not been active at ALL, life has been busier than I expected it to.
We just moved again, my eighth move so far, and things have been very hectic.
Plus I have been struggling with a severe case of writers block.
It's been a hard move, one of the hardest ones yet, we now live about nine hours away from all our friends and family. We have also been trying to get used to the atmosphere here in PA. With the stricter homeschool laws, to the mountains and huge snakes, it's been a challenge.
But it's not just physically challenging, but also it's mentally. challenging. And it's been SO hard to just trust in the Lord through this move, we kinda live in the middle of no where, I don't have any friends yet, and I have been sick, so even when my family does get out of the house, I am not physically able.
It's been really hard but I just have to keep reminding myself that God is watching over me, and that he has a purpose through all of this.
Though it's been hard, I'm making it.

With Love,
Myra

Psalms 46:1

"God is my refuge and Strength, a very present help in Trouble"