“Healthy Hero” Blog #157
It’s just another day….but will I do my life differently?
All my stress, all my sadness and all my fear…..will I give it to HIM?
Just for now - believe what is truth - Now, let HIM help me?
The other day I was pulling out of Starbucks and saw a man at the side of the road. He
looked extremely haggard and I could not even tell his age. He was holding a sign that
said, “I need money for a cheeseburger and a bag of weed”. I looked out my rear view
mirror as the light changed and saw the car behind me. They rolled down their window to
give him money. For the next few hours I struggled with how I felt about the words on his
sign!
Was I mad at what he wrote? Was I just ashamed to admit it? What had things come to
anyway, for this person to be in that situation? What one day turned him into a street
beggar? When I finally figured myself out regarding that situation, I realized this was the
scenario we live with today. He was just blatantly “out there” with his truth of what he
wanted money for. I am willing to bet, he was not always a street beggar. This man had
not always stood on the street corner begging for a cheeseburger and a bag of weed.
When did things turn? Yet, here he was today, and if someone gives him enough money
for these things, will this be his “way of sustaining himself” day in and day out until what?
What IS it that really bothered me about this whole scenario? On so many levels I can say
this person gave up on “Trying in society to make it how?” Maybe at the end of the day,
this is all he really wants. So then, therein lies the rub. I KNOW I want something different. I
want my body to be healthy. I don’t want to put weed into it. I don’t want temporary fixers
to relieve life stressors. I want to feel life. I need to feel and act and live out everything I am
given because it took me ages to figure so many things out. Realizing now, there is NO
ESCAPE FROM LIFE EXCEPT DEATH.
So I can do it the easy way (which I truly do believe is giving it All to Jesus) or I can fight the
internal battle with darkness and never win).
I WANT TO HELP MYSELF HEAL EACH DAY. I WANT TO ACCEPT TODAY’S SADNESS.
My LETTER to myself: “Dear Self, “I want to start healing inside me with healthy information,
healthy food, inspiring music and “honest” people.
I AM READY to clean out the garbage once and for all. NO ONE CARES ENOUGH ABOUT ME AS
MUCH AS I NEED TO CARE ABOUT ME. I want to become my own best friend. I will not judge
others. (Not even the man asking for a cheeseburger and a bag of weed - because there
but for the Grace of God, go I.)
In so many ways, this sounds lonely - but quite often the facts of life are lonely. It’s okay.
There are reasons why we have to incorporate the words courage, fortitude and discipline
into my life. I need to implement these words into my life IF I want to be my own HEALTHY
HERO. Above all, I must remember AGE has nothing to do with it. I can start at any age to
be healthier.
What is courage? Doing something I know I have to do - it is hard - but I do it day after
day. Now its for my best health.
What is fortitude? Enduring what I must do with great courage, for my best health.
What is discipline? The practice of training myself with courage & fortitude to become
my daily habit.
All across the country today, right before Feb. 2025 starts, there are people who have no
home to go home to. These are not people who were destitute or starving or street
people. These people were part of a natural disaster. Floods in North Carolina and fires in
California. Now they have no homes. I point this out because not one single one of us, is
immune from the “Unexpected”. We do not know when or if something is going to happen
to get out attention internally, big-time! I start today with new priorities. I look at life
wanting to heal from the inside out. I want high health. Therefore, I must take responsibility
for myself. I am the only one who knows internally IF I have UNHEALTHY HABITS. As I said
before - I HAVE ONLY TODAY TO WORK WITH.
So, I look in the mirror and say to myself: “Help me Jesus become my own Healthy Hero”..
No more a question, but a promise: I start today with internal discipline all day long.
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