December 3, 2012

As I sit here this morning beginning to write, the sun is flooding into my dining room window, There's something about light. The morning light breaking through the darkness signals a new start, a new chance, and a new day. That big, booming stream of light announces.......... "NEW!" I don't know how you feel, but during the morning light I seem to feel such peace. The light calms my spirit and really says, "it's ok." I love to look at the morning light and smile - it illuminates without the blistering heat of the midday. There are so many biblical directions here for us. Maybe the sunlight this morning needs to remind us that God is not mad at us and sends LIGHT to ILLUMINATE our PATH out of the CELL of DARKNESS that can sometimes cloak us so rapidly. I gotta confess, I've been wrestling with some things in my heart lately - not sin issues, but issues involving a fight with the evil one for joy in people that I care about. There is a time to rest and a time of war - I am fighting for some friends and sometimes feel like I've been cloaked with darkness. Ever experienced that? BUT THIS MORNING, the light just reminds me that God illuminates the whole earth and when HE ILLUMINATES the path, there's a way out. I don't know the way sometimes, but HE ALWAYS DOES! I am comforted by that! I know that even in providing us with a plan for nutrition for our bodies - and there are several, correct plans based on body types - there is the underlying truth that HEALTH is our objective as opposed to appearance. YES? If appearance is the main objective, it changes as do the seasons. BUT our health must remain if we are to bear fruit in our golden years. The following verse of scripture jumped out at me this morning: Luke 1:78-79 "Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, 79to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace.” Don't you love that? So, let's remember that the place of PEACE is not wrestling with the way we look, but being healthy. Continue to fight for that revelation and let's ask God to always keep illuminating the path to our BEST HEALTH. NOW......if our best health means the single digit jeans, "bring it on!" :) Smiling as I think of you this morning, PK