Healthy Spirit, Healthy Life By Tanelia Johnson-Evans
In order to have a healthy life, you must first have a healthy spirit. Everything we need, whether we believe it or not, comes from the Lord. We become healthy spiritually by feeding our spirit the word of God; praying daily without ceasing; fasting as led by God; and by reading, studying, and meditating on God’s word, The Holy Bible. Making time for God and spending time with God bring forth growth and a healthy, close relationship with God; but it takes discipline.
Just like growing spiritually takes discipline, so does being healthy. Eating well, especially if you like sweets like I do, can be challenging. I figured out that if I can discipline my mind for a fast, I can discipline my body to eat the right foods if I want to - keywords, want to. No one would have known from looking at Florence Griffith Joyner, aka Flo Jo, that she was ill. She was athletic and was beautiful inside and out. Her beauty radiated from inside of her. She set world records in the area of track and field, yet she had an epileptic seizure and died in her sleep. It was so sad. Everyone believed her to be healthy as an ox. Well, at least I did! She was young, only 38 years old, when she passed.
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