What Do You Crave?

Do you crave a warm molten brownie drizzled with sauce and topped with rich vanilla ice cream? Or sushi? Or waffles with REAL maple syrup on a rainy Saturday morning?  

Maybe a peanut butter and jelly sandwich does it for you!  
 
OK.  I admit it.  I am a couple of weeks into my quest to reclaim my body.  I have been eating well and exercising more.  I'm even down a few pounds.  My (food) cravings are intermittent.  Actually, just posting those pictures (above) made my mouth water!!!!!

Lately, I've really been thinking about cravings as I adjust my diet to include smoothies infused with kale and spinach.  (My hubby says, "Yuck!")  But, hey, don't knock it until you've tried it!!!  

The other day I was craving my grandkids.  Just as sure as you can crave Hershey's.  I got an incredible craving for those babies!!!  Fortunately, my wonderful DIL read my mind and called me to come keep the sweeties, and my craving was satiated!!!

I remember Jimmy's mom saying, "I'm just hungry for my children."  Now I know exactly what she meant! 

​We can crave many things - not just food! 

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Do you crave beauty in nature, simpler times, or just a good old nap on the couch with your favorite pet?

Do you crave your favorite toys or the sand between your toes? Do you crave time with your best buddies?

Do you crave a championship?  To be younger or older? Or to grasp some more time with those you love and have loved?

Do you crave an opportunity to go back to the "old home place" and relive earlier times, places, and opportunities?

What do you (and I) crave?  
Do we crave the past or look to the future?
Do we crave to reclaim our bodies and make promises (we hope) we will keep?
  
We make plans.  We have visions of what might be.    
We let go of the old.  We try on the new.  We make claims about our hopes and dreams - whether we say them out loud or not.  

What do you long for?  What do you crave?

​As January - this month of renewal ends let's take stock of our cravings (food or otherwise) and remember His promises for the coming months, for this year and for always.  

Let's crave Him.  Let's crave His Word.  Let's crave His Spirit.  Let's crave fellowship with His people!!!  

Psalms 37
(3) Trust in the Lord and do good.  (4) Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. (6) He will make our righteousness shine like the dawn; the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. (9) For those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.  

Psalms 90
(4) For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by.  (12) Teach us to number our days so that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (17) May the favor of the Lord rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us. 

Psalms 91
(4) He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness with be your shield.  (5) You will not fear.

My prayer for this new year is that He will go before you and guide you in every endeavor.  I pray that He will wrap you in His love and give you hopes and dreams, and visions of His plan(s) for your life.  I pray that you will stay grounded in His Word and infused with His Wisdom.  I pray that you will find alone time to come before Him and to align your will with His.  I pray that your daily steps will be guided by Him and that your REAL craving will be for more of Him every day.  Amen. 

Now!  Go and let His radiant love shine through you!