We've been looking for a desk for Heather for a little while so she can study at home more instead of having to stay banished up at the school. We have one desk, but it is already full of computers and such. So we've looked around for a little while. Finally, today, we found one at HH Gregg. [This also answered the question of what the heck they sold at that store.] It was one of those high quality Sauder put-it-together-yourself units. Happy happy joy joy.
The sales dude went and got it out of the back and pushed it out on a dolly. I helped him lift it into the van. I said to him, "Man. How am I going to get that upstairs?' After we drove home, I went to the back of the van and opened the door. The desk had been leaning against the door in its box, and when I opened the door it fell out onto the ground. Smoooooth. Anyway, I figured out how to pick the sucker up and started to walk upstairs.
It was stinking heavy. I kind of got one of those momentum things going and rushed it up the stairs before setting it down in the living room. I was kind of amazed I had gotten it up the stairs without dropping it, breaking it, or suffering a crippling injury. Out of curiosity, I looked at the box to see how much it weighed. "THIS BOX WEIGHS APPROXIMATELY 84 POUNDS."
Huh?!? I looked at Heather and said, "I've lost a DESK!!!" At my last weigh in, I had lost 86 pounds. So I had lost more than that desk weighed. It really hits home when you see something like that. I barely could get this monster of a box up the stairs. But back in January, I had been toting that much extra weight around every minute of every day. Crazy, isn't it?
Visual Aides such as that certainly are helpful and it is amazing to think how you were even able to do it day in day out. But the answer would lie in desensitizing. When we allow something to happen ever so slightly over time we don't notice the change or the burden it places on us. We as Christians try to be aware of it in our spiritual walk but who knew we should watch out in our physical world also. Sneaky Sneaky pounds.
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