The Aroma of Your Heart

Weight: 311.0
(Did not weigh at same time, may not be accurate)


If you haven't seen the movie "Facing the Giants" I highly recommend it. Even though it is probably classified as a 'Christian' movie it's great.

Something in that movie that has been on my mind today is a scene where the coach (Grant Taylor) tells his football team that "your attitude is like the aroma of your heart; if your attitude stinks, your heart's not right."

There is a lot of truth to that and not just when it comes to dealing with others, how you treat yourself counts! Today when I weighed it showed a 0.8 pound weight gain. It may or may not be accurate I didn't weigh at the same time of day and I had eaten something too. Did I feel a little down on myself, yeah, actually I did. I did feel a twang of disappointment in myself for sure. I could have lingered on it today, but I didn't. It was 0.8 pounds....it could be due to a lot of things that have nothing to do with what I ate. Today was a new day.

Most people don't think at all about their attitude toward themselves you know, being important. But if you don't have a good attitude toward yourself, then you may as well give up because you have already doomed yourself to failure. The saying holds the same even if it is about yourself. "If your attitude stinks, your heart's not right".

"But Charlie," you say, "It's just my attitude toward myself, who cares?"

Well, you care! God cares, the people around you who love you care. I have dealt with it too, you start to think that you're nothin' and so you don't feel worthy to do things for yourself. You don't think that you deserve good things. So you think, "I don't deserve to spend that money to get myself new clothes/ haircut/ nails/ food, etc". Being overweight can do this to you and make it even worse. I mean lets call a spade a spade we live in a society where if you are fat you have no worth to society. (Not including those BBW loving societies that as an obese woman, even I find strange.) You are looked down upon, you are passed over for opportunities, you are treated as second class. This doesn't just happen to overweight people either but that is another story.

So you are told by society that fat is gross (and I mean, hey, it is); you are told that if you aren't a size zero you are not and have no hope to be beautiful, you are worthless and you are a festering pus sore on society's butt. Eventually you start to believe that. If anyone hears something about themselves enough they can start to believe it. So you get a bad attitude about yourself and so you quit trying.

What does this have to do with our heart being right? Now my blogs aren't going to turn all preachy, but hang with me a minute here. When you have beauty and love in your heart, it will show in your attitude. See a good attitude isn't something that is JUST shown on the outside, it's something that starts on the INSIDE. See we see ourselves like we see ourselves. We see ourselves being overweight, having a big nose, bad skin, small breasts, fat thighs, thick ankles. and a host of other things that we can look at ourselves and classify as "wrong" or bad. But God doesn't see any of that. He sees us like He made us; in HIS image. He sees us a beautiful no matter our weight or hair or eye color or pant or dress size! So if our heart can get right (with God) then we can start to see ourselves as He sees us and we can change our attitude toward ourselves!

When you start seeing yourself how God sees you; you will totally change your attitude about yourself. I don't know if you are familiar with the VeggieTales movies, but these are little biblical stories told in a way that kids can understand by vegetables. (Headed by Bob, the tomato, and Larry, the cucumber). In one VeggieTales short film a story is told a la Dr. Seuss about the Snoodles. One day a new little Snoodle comes into being (from a tower in the square) and he is wondering what he looks like, what he is there for, and all sorts of questions. As he looks to the people around him they only tell him about the ways that he is failing or not measuring up. Finally in an attempt to get away from all these mean people he climbs the tallest mountain in their little land and he meets a man there (God). This man paints a picture of the little Snoodle and in the picture he is big and strong and flying high! The little Snoodle doesn't understand, but the man tells him that he painted the little Snoodle as he sees him, that he knows how amazing he can be because HE made the Snoodle! When the Snoodle removed all the bad things that the other people had told him from his backpack he was able to stand tall, and when he put in the pack the picture of how the man saw him, he was evening flying!

Your attitude is the aroma of your heart.

That includes your attitude about yourself.

If you think that you deserve better, then you will try to give yourself better. If you count yourself out, then you will never get where you are going.

How do you smell?