Have you ever had your hopes set for a certain level of something. You say to yourself, I can weigh X but please don’t let me weigh Y when I get on this new scale. Well it wasn’t a full on Z but it was over the Y I had held out hope for. So I am going to say to get to what I would consider a milestone for me is to lose 15 lbs, That would get me back under the magic Y major number. Believe me my Y number would be most peoples Z number or more for sure, but everyone needs to start somewhere. Now I am not starting this weight right sizing effort at a particularly easy point as I am about to go on vacation, but I hope to be very active on my vacation and come back not to far above where I am now.
Hope is a funny word, too frequently we use it even when we are pretty sure something is not going to happen. I hear us say frequently my hope is based on Jesus, or rests in Jesus, surely this isn’t the same hope we mean when we talk about our weight like I just did or about our favorite team winning. Is there a better word I should be using? Because I am sure my hope does rest in my relationship to Jesus, and through him to the forgiveness of my sins, but i need another word for trying not to go overboard on vacation. 
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