The perfect balance to meet your needs–inside and out.
It’s awesome when things come in pairs. It makes it easy to remember and easy to digest (no pun intended). 😉
Let’s start with the easiest: food. Our bodies function at their best when they’re given high quality, whole food. Just as God intended–hence why He created them! 😉
For our bodies, we need to have a balance of whole food providing us nutrients, fiber and healthy fat (aka beneficial oils.) Try pairing these things together this week:
- Tomatoes and avocado
- Cucumber or carrots and olives
- Butternut squash and almonds
- Sweet potato and pecans
- Apple and walnuts
For our spiritual health–equally as important to be mindful of–try pairing these together:
- Grace and Forgiveness
- Mercy and Love
- Empathy and Compassion
- Obedience and Faith
- Kind-heartedness and Joy
It’s easy to throw around these terms and to read them in our Bible or even to study them, but to be truly mindful of practicing them can be a different story…
>> Final thought: Pick one pairing from each category (body and soul) and take action on it as soon as possible–even now if you can. See what other perfect pairings you can begin to spot all around you. The most perfect of all is that God chose to pair himself with you.
A more perfect pair could never have been made. 😉 You are loved.
Your sister in Christ,
~Dr. Melody
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I find it fascinating when I survey people or am doing market research that many Christians have not correlated the call to action for our health as being related to our spiritual life.
Perhaps most people do on some level, but not as a daily intentional aspect of how they live their lives and how they care for their bodies. And how much differently would they look and feel if they did!
Our society makes it so easy to pack on the pounds and go down the sugar-induced-coma-lethargy cycle and we wonder why we’re always tired, sluggish and unhappily overweight.
As Christians, if we decided to take the command seriously to treat our bodies as the personal and holy temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19), how much would that change our actions–and thus our outcomes?!
>> Final thought: I encourage you today to evaluate how sacredly are you treating God’s temple? Is it thriving with energy, enthusiasm and love, or is it weighed down, tired and unhappy? That simple mental switch can be the catalyst to drive your actions toward creating a healthier and more vibrant body on the outside, which inevitably creates a happier, healthier you on the inside.
Your sister in Christ,
~Dr. Melody
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God’s design has always been going against the grain, against the majority, the road less taken.
The Bible tells us in Matthew 7:13-14:
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
What’s so interesting to me is that we can apply the exact same truth to our health and modern society. I don’t think the world Jesus lived in had the same health troubles and concerns we face today–many of which are our own doing.
We’ve created our own downward spiral as a society because of the culture and habits we’ve cultivated around fast food, candy, soft drinks and convenience.
So it takes a wise person, someone astute, who chooses to see past the everyday ploys of marketing, advertising and gimmicks, and who intentionally decides to take the road less traveled–that ultimately leads to better health.
Going against the grain (both literally and figuratively) is the only way we will begin to reclaim our health, our vitality, our energy and our waistlines! But man it’s not easy!
Without going into an extensive nutritional lesson on how grain, wheat and gluten negatively affect our bodies, I encourage you to begin reclaiming your life and the health God created your body to have–one bite at a time.
>> Final thought: This week I encourage you to go against what is so easily available to us via soda machines, candy aisles, drive through lanes and take a stand to take the road less traveled by the majority around us. Just as the Bible encourages us to “take the narrow gate” that leads to eternal life, we need to take the narrow way that leads to our bodies best health.
Your sister in Christ,
~Dr. Melody
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