I’m a Grownup – When Did That Happen?

01 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment

by jessiecarter in GRAVITY Experiment Tags: Cards, Charlie Brown, Dave Ramsey, fear, gravity, KMOX, parents, St. Louis, talk radio, Total Gym

GRAVITY Experiment Days #47 & #48

Pounds lost / pounds to go:  7.5 / 7.5 (it’s not going to be pretty tomorrow – I’m feeling fluffy)

Exercise:  30 min GRAVITY training yesterday (lower body emphasis) and 30 min interval training today as per previous posts (boring I know).  I’m going to order a workout book from Total Gym (hopefully this week) that gives me some more “put together” workouts.

I have officially become my parents.  I used to groan growing up when Mom and Dad would listen to talk radio while we were in the car.  Remember that I grew up outside of St. Louis, home of KMOX 1120 AM.  Mom and Dad had it on what seemed to be all the time.  I don’t really remember ever actually listening to it – I thought everyone sounded like Charlie Brown’s teacher.

Peanuts Teacher on YouTube

Now, whenever we are in or around St. Louis, I turn it on just because it’s comfortable.  If I’m lucky, there will be a Cards game on and the best memories of growing up flood back.

Well, I have become a talk radio junkie.  Between driving to and from work and carting the kiddos around, I feel like it’s the only way I can keep up on news.  It’s probably also why I don’t know the lyrics to any songs   Yes, the kids groan and you know what I say?  You guessed it, “Grandma and Grandpa used to make me listen to this – you can decide what to listen to when you are the grownup.”

So here is my tidbit from listening today.  I think it was Dave Ramsey (not certain) but the point was that “you should never make a decision based on fear.”  It made me stop and think.  We all make decisions day in and day out.

How many of those decisions do we make based on objective facts and prayerful guidance?  How many do we make based on assumptions, false evidence, or fear of what may (or may not) happen?