Unshackled Moments ~ June 20, 2018 ~ Whole Wellness

Over the past almost two weeks I have been watching, and trying to help, my wife recover from open heart surgery. She is doing amazingly well, and everyone is impressed and very happy with her progress, except perhaps her. She wants to be able to be comfortable, pain free and able to do all the things that she expects to be able to do now that her heart is repaired. I can't blame her one bit for that.

It's not just the place where they cut her open that is an issue. There is a lot more limiting her right now than trying not to pull stitches. Her muscles ache and are still weak from what she's been through. Her lungs have yet to fully recover from the intubation. There are other issues as well, because it's not a heart problem, or a respiratory one, or a muscle issue, or any other single area problem. It's a wholeness and core recovery process.

This is true because whatever may be a weakness in one part of our body effects our entire body and also our mind and emotions. This is also true for us spiritually. If there is a major problem, we may concentrate on it short term, but we need a core spiritual workout to stay healthy and strong overall. Jesus said that we are to love Daddy with all our heart, mind and soul, showing that all three of these areas are interrelated. We can not ficus only on one without the others growing weak and adversely effecting even where our focus has been.

If we grow stagnant, complacent or weak in even one of the three we could hinder what God wants to do for us and through us. Strengthening our spiritual core helps us  to have a life worth living and to stay free, but it also helps others. Staying  fit in all three areas helps us to remember who we are according to Daddy and to see ourselves as He sees us. It also helps us to see others as He sees them, enabling us to love and serve them. If we love God with our mind, hear and soul we become able to love and value ourselves because of who He has made us to be. And when we see the grace by which God loves and values us, we can then love others and treat them with the value God has placed on us all. It is from the place of a strong relationship with Daddy that we can love Him in return, we can love ourselves in a healthy way and love others. Our relationship is not only in and by the soul. It is not simply mental or emotional either. If we approach it as a single focus issue, the whole will suffer, but when we exercise and strengthen all three pillars, we build something strong and stable and become holistically healthy and free.


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