Day 278- Honoring the parts honors the whole
📖Daily Reading
1 Corinthians 11-12
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📝 Reflection
1 Corinthians 12: 14-21
'Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.” '
This is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, this has helped me so much over the years and continues to deepen, widen and expand for me, it speaks volumes. Part of my own journey has been realizing that I really missed the message that I was supposed to not only love myself but that it is God honoring to take care of myself well. Not only is it is not selfish, it is a form of worship.
True self care is also a discipline, not indulgences that we typically think of like maybe getting a massage once in a while , getting our nails done, or buying ourselves something nice. I know many moms who think going to the grocery store without kids or to the bathroom alone is self care - I know because I used to be one of them. I know many people don’t take care of themselves and feel like it is a luxury, but I think it is a necessity. If you don’t then eventually something will happen that will sideline you and force you to reconsider.
When we ignore, minimize and mistreat ourselves and worship at the alter of busyness, productivity, vanity and the hustle and grind mentality that we have especially contend with in the US we all pay for it. We are a stressed out, maxxed out, anxious, fearful, collective; because the parts - each of us individually are contributing to the collective. We have a mental, physical and spiritual health crisis on our hands. Knowing this can just add to our individual overwhelm; it is self feeding cycle.
We can change this by being the change. By taking back control of our health by prioritizing self care. In my opinion we need to add margin and literally breathing room back into our lives. Time to be still and know. Time to go for walks, time to ponder the meaning of life and our purpose, time to fellowship and break bread together, tune in to our intuition and our inner wisdom. Time to nourish our spirits through practices like prayer and meditation. Shifting our mindset from quantity to quality. When we take more time we have more time, it is another paradox.
The side effect of racing through life is that our nervous systems pay the price. We stay in heightened states of alert much of the time. This keeps the sympathetic nervous system or the ‘fight or flight’ response activated. This is not what it is designed for. It is meant to come on line only in times of crisis and when we need to run from an immediate danger. It takes all the parts of our bodies and wears us down over time. We need time to allow our our parasympathetic nervous systems or the ‘rest and digest’ system to come back online. We are at a critical time in history being inundated from outside stimuli, technology and advances in knowledge at an exponential pace.
We owe it to our next generations to teach them to value themselves and prioritize self care from a wholistic perspective. We all benefit when we are showing up for ourselves and doing our part. I could go on and on. I am doing my best to be the change I want to see in the world. Taking back my personal agency, ‘owning it’, loving myself and treating myself well, so that I can rise and shine for God’s glory. When we show up as our best selves we can actually love people better and serve each other and show each other grace. We bring all that energy back to ourselves which helps us to help others by co-regulating our nervous systems. Our nervous systems talk to each other. We see ourselves as separate, but we are not this is an illusion. We are one, we are parts of a whole.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How can you incorporate more self care into your life? Can you see the need for margin and breathing room? How can you help yourself and the those around you slow down and calm down?
📖Tomorrows Reading
1 Corinthians 13-14
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