#9243 Wings Over The Mountains of Life
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Cruising in Paradise
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The sign read, "Guests on a cruise gain an average of seven to
ten pounds during a cruise."
I stared at the sign posted in front of the fitness center of
the cruise ship as my wife and I were on a recent cruise.
"Seven to ten pounds...that's a lot of weight," I thought.
"That's a pound or more per day." It was a MountainWings Moment.
A cruise represents as close to earthly paradise as the average
person will get. You don't have to work at all. You have a room
steward, a personal waiter, and some cabins even have a butler.
You can call at any time of the day or night and have room
service delivered at no extra charge. You can order an
unlimited number of entrees and desserts at breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.
You can have as much as you want on a cruise and you have to do
no work to get it. That's as close to paradise as most will get.
Yet, paradise puts an average of a pound a day on folk.
Research has proven that one of the most effective life
extenders in rats is caloric restriction. If the rats are kept
always hungry and given little to eat, they lived twice as long
as rats who are given all they wanted to eat.
It works that way with things other than food. Sometimes all
that we want is opposite from all that we need.
I sat next to a lady on the return flight home after leaving
the cruise ship. She asked the flight attendant if she could
get a seat belt extender. She confided in me that she had
gained some weight on a cruise that she and her husband were
returning from.
Thank God that He has the wisdom to not give us all that we
want all or even most of the time.
~A MountainWings Original~
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