Principle 3 Prayer

Pray for clarity regarding personal and global health for all.

It is a perfect storm of variables that places us where we are at this point in history. Today, because of our desire to be thin, we spend multi-billions on empty promises of fad diets, specialty pills and powders, books and gadgets, while our food industry is based on marketing and consumption, not on the consumer’s health and nutrition. Today, the environment suffers the back end of this food and diet industry that produces exponentially more waste than product. Today, we have a billion people on the planet who are starving and suffer from not enough food calories in their diets and a similar number who are obese craving more and more food calories trying to cover unmet nutrient needs from depleted food choices. In a Global irony both rich and poor are suffering from un-balanced nutrition, malnutrition. How did such a wasteful and dangerous situation come to pass? How do we get back to the basics where these were not issues? We simply need to trust the creator’s original intention of what He provided for His people before the processing started.

Prayer and meditation are contemplative times with God. In other words, meditation is the silence that allows us to hear the Creator’s intentions. It is vital for health; all religions practice this, not just Christians. God communicates with us this way. When we are quiet, or in a meditative state before our Creator, we will hear clearly His provisions for us to establish our health and wellness. Long runs with meditation on a Psalm or a scripture verse can create a deeper communion with the Creator, instead of simply running to be done, as if to check exercise off a ‘to-do’ list. When we learn to integrate or Faith with our Fitness, we create a longer lasting integration of our spiritual and our physical wellness. Together, we create a lifetime of wellness from the inside out.

So when you run, meditate; when you lift weights, pray; when you walk, reflect on God’s provisions for us and His intention through healthy real foods. Discover the incredible effectiveness of exercise and how it benefits humankind. Reclaim exercise as a gift from God; and relearn to eat from the vine, the branches, and the soil, once again.

The Faith community that you are apart of, can be a community that encourages growth in physical, as well as spiritual health, through Christ who strengthens us. Peace to you.