“Good Health”

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health as it goes well with your soul. 3 John 1:2

Verse Reflections:  Pray for our success.  Let’s commit to be John and to pray for others on this journey of eating healthy foods.  Together as the family of Christ we can join in prayer that God’s family can be “in good health as it is well with our souls”.  I love the way John combines those two concepts.  When it goes well with our soul we may be in good health.  It is hard to be in good health when our soul is not well.  Starting our day with Christ melts the crippling criticisms, the anger, the sadness, the fear, the doubt that creeps into our soul.  Each of these emotions create a hole that we want to fill with food.  There is an endless chasm that cannot be filled and so we eat processed foods to get a quick high, and then we eat again when we crash.  By starting our day with Christ He fills that chasm, that empty stretching hole with His peace.  We get to eat because we are hungry and our body needs nutrition instead of eating because our anxiety produces cortisol and adrenaline that creates cravings.  Being well in our soul is the first step of being in good health and making good choices.  Today we are gong to eat healthy.

Prayer:  Father, I love the hymn that is titled has the line “it is well with my soul” and when I remember the tragedies that the author had to endure the words in this song mean even more.  God, You remind me that when I am well in my soul my health increases. No matter what today holds I am going to trust You, Your peace, Your power so that my soul will be at peace. God, we tend to look at issues in relation to our world, our life rather than looking at it from the position of eternity. When I look at issues from Your perspective even death is a much needed term limit here on earth so we don’t become too dependent on any single person.  We don’t need to cling to a relationship, power, financial supply, knowledge, leadership, emotional fulfillment or even love from a person here on earth more than we depend on You. Easy to say, but devastating to live. You can make my soul well no matter what I am experiencing here on earth. I have found in this journey that I eat healthier when I unconditionally love myself and the way I look today, as I am.  This is part of being well in my soul.  Today, give me that complete starting point so that I can be “in good health” physically and mentally. And together Lord we can “be in good health as it is well with my soul”.

Did you know?  Eating foods with high fat makes us want to eat more fat (Czerwony).  It is a cycle of chasing food euphoria.