Good Morning Girls!  Four years ago the Holy Spirit clearly told me to give up sugar.  I knew it.  I was convicted of it.  My first day just happened to be the last day of Homemakers for the year.  I walked around telling everyone the evils of sugar, and how I was done with it.  I gave mini speeches about how it is the one thing left in my life that trips me up time and again.  I explained how I never eat chicken breast or broccoli when I am already full, but sweets and treats.....I'll eat them until I am physically sick.  I was on fire and on a preach about how sugar was out of my life for good.
So on that Tuesday in April, I gave up sugar.  I gave it up and never looked back.....NOT!  I gave it up for.......3 days!  That's right, 3 days!  After all of my preaching and confessing, I returned to my sweet vice after just 3 days. 
So what happened?  Did I lose my conviction?  Did I find new research that said insane amounts of sugar is actually good for you?  Was I deliberately rebelling against God? No, No, and No.  I still believed it was in my best interest to give up sugar.  I knew the Lord was preparing me for it.  I knew it was related to some of my health problems.  I also knew God still loved me despite my inability to fulfill my convictions.
For the last 4 years I have tried off and on to walk away from sugar.  I have had more failures than successes.  However, each success is greater than the previous one.  Each success gives me more conviction that this is what I am to do.  
For those of you who have known me for a while, you know that even when I am "on" sugar, I will still confess that it is not good for me and that I will one day be free of it.  I have not changed my conviction.  I have not changed my view on it.  I have not decided I "missed God" on this one.  I am still on my preach about it.  Still aware of the evils of it in my life (emphasis on my here, I am convicted of this in my life, not yours!)  For 4 years I have been passionate about getting off sugar.  
I am telling you this for 2 reasons.  First of all, today is day one of my 90 sugar fast.  So, obviously an insane amount of prayer is appreciated.  More importantly, what I want you to see is that even though I have had more failures than successes in this area, I will still declare myself a "She" when it comes to eating healthy and getting off of sugar!  God doesn't convict us of things and expect us to be perfected in them before we can be a blessing to others.  No!  He is more concerned with us being willing than He is with us being perfect!  In the last 4 years I have helped others eliminate, or at least decrease their sugar intake, even while I myself was inhaling it at times!  I have influenced and encouraged others to make healthy lifestyle changes.  I have supported those around me who were pressing towards a goal when I was in "sitting on the sidelines" mode.  God was able to use me, to develop me into a "She" even while I was stumbling.
So Girls, take a look at the things you desire to do, at the woman you desire to be.  You do not need to be perfected in these area to be a "She" in these areas.  You simply need to be willing.  Willing to let the Lord use you.  Willing to have the confidence to say what Paul said in today's verse.  Willing to press on, day after day, even when it seems like some days you are moving backwards.  To be honest with you, I think what qualifies us all to be a "She" is the fact that we don't quit, even when we fail!

Philippians 3:12-14 I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection.  But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.  No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

Love you and all your "imperfections"-
Jen