Together with balanced eating habits and lifestyle choices, doctors recommend a minimum of 90-150 minutes of moderate exercise each week to improve and maintain health. That sounds simple enough, but for many finding the time and motivation to raise our heart rates and stretch our limbs is an ongoing challenge.
And what about our souls? How much time must we devote to keeping our spirits engaged and connected to the God who is infinitely more forgiving than our bodies?
This week we explore both impediments and pathways to nourishing a healthy, balanced spirituality. We offer these reflections with prayers for God's peace to be in and abide with you~
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Just Do It!
Beyond Words is a book for spiritual adventurers who seek new ways to pray.
Balance is a big topic these days. We long for it, we read about it, we get therapy to find it, we go to church hoping God will give it to us. Yet, as much as we try to capture or achieve it, it seems strangely elusive…
We find peace a stealthy bedfellow when we are unwilling to relinquish those emotions that have seized only one part of our being. But we have two allies to help us. First is meditation where we learn the skill of letting go. Second is staying present in the moment because this is where we practice the skill learned in meditation.
When we bravely let go of what keeps us knotted up, we see right through to the reality of things, and in the space of a moment, we find ourselves balanced beside God.
A Prayer for Staying Centered
Help me, Lord, to see when temptation is trying to cleverly captivate me. Give me the strength and fortitude to make choices for health and spiritual wholeness. Keep me faithful in my love for you and faithful to the wonder of being given the gift of life. I ask this for the sake of your love.
Even when I don't feel like exercising, I always feel wonderful once I'm doing it and absolutely fabulous afterward. Even if I don't want to say Morning Prayer, I feel its blessing before I'm halfway through the first psalm. The rule teaches me, over time: teaches me to expect delight from the good things I have included in the rule. And you usually find delight when you expect it.
