I was out for coffee with a friend this morning and we were both bemoaning the fact that we each need to lose weight and get fit. I have said the same thing many times! I was 55 this year and now is the time!
Arriving home, I got a glass of water and some bulgar wheat salad that I had made earlier in the week. As I sat down to eat it, I savoured the first mouthful. It was SO tasty.
I thought, 'O Lord - the food You made tastes so GOOD!'
Then, I stopped and looked down at what was in my bowl, taking in the look, structure, smell of the food and putting some more in my mouth to really feel the textures, identifying in my mouth what I was looking at with my eyes and savour the different flavours with my tongue.
I was very struck that REAL food is totally interesting. If I took more time to consider all the aspects of a meal put before me, it would not only motivate me to use only the best, most natural ingredients but also to make me more mindful of how it affected my body.
Do I really want to line my veins and arteries with gunk, chugging up the flow and efficiency of the life blood that God has created within me, causing my precious heart to strain with unnecessary effort?
Do I want to care for this Temple of the Holy Spirit with anything other than what is best?
I want to be the best steward I can with the finances my Father God has blessed me with.
I want to make every effort to keep this body in the best condition it can be in to face all the adventures that yet lie before me in the years He has allotted to me (and I have asked for many more so I can catch up on life I haven't yet lived and didn't know I missed)
