Today is the day after Halloween and there was lots of left over candy almost everywhere I looked. I lost 45 pounds on my bicycle trip and do not want to gain any of it back. I feel good and haven’t gotten this many compliments on how good I look in my entire life. But as much as I didn’t want to do it I found myself eating candy all day long. How is it that we can want one thing and do another! Paul put it this way in Romans, ” the things I want to do I don’t do and things I don’t want to I do”!? Strange isn’t it? Growing in character is growing in self control. When we talk about a strong person it is not the ability to lift heavy loads but the ability to do what is right in spite of our fleshly desires and the pull of the world. Sometimes I get so frustrated with my own weakness, but then I realize that I am getting stronger, more disciplined, even though it seems so slow. I will keep working at becoming a strong man who knows what it means to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.