dailydatewithgod

Our bodies have these built-in ways of refreshing and renewing.  We notice it when we take a deep breath, stretch our bodies, cry tears, and rest our eyes.  The miraculous nature of these simple physical actions is they also are a cleansing for our spirit.  Within them is a pause when we calm our hearts and slow down for just a moment.  It gives spirit a chance to speak to us and bring us home to ourselves.  Our spirits long to be renewed by life and love.  When we surrender to the cleansing offered by our bodies we connect with ourselves and open up our hearts.  For me this is not apologizing for crying when I am touched by something or upset, not feeling weird about stretching outside of an exercise class or even just giving myself permission to stop and take a deep breath.  It seems silly when I look at it but those little ways in which I inadvertently make myself wrong for being a full human and spiritual being are like making my soul wrong.  God did not create a anything wrong in me or you.

My prayer for us is the courage to embrace the little cleansing and renewing properties of our humanness to create stronger connections to our spirit today.