Nourish Your Soul
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Let us pray that our Minds be open to understand what you may be telling us and that we think more like God. That our Eyes see things as you see them. That our Ears hear your message in what is being spoken this morning. That our Mouth will speak words that Heal and give life! That our Hearts are open to love like you. That our Hands be open to receive any gifts you plan to give us. Let us place in our hands any worries or anxiety. Take all that needs healing in our lives and bring us back into the Light of Love and Peace.
Nourishes your Soul?
Called to Love Self Being a person of Integrity Standing up for what you
Loving yourself means eating and exercising regularly, finding time for meditation and/or prayer regularly, and taking other actions that nurture and improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Body Physical Health - Exercise yoga, mediation
Eating healthy meals with friends and family!
Physical Health, Exercise You can have good self-esteem regardless of your physical body. Let s face it, if negative thoughts about our bodies actually caused us to lose weight, we d all be skinny!
There are worse things than being fat like being mean, petty, or spiteful. Besides, your weight is not just affected by food and exercise but also genetic, biological, and digestive behaviors you have little to no control over. You focus on what you can control: being physically active, choosing appropriate amounts of good food, drinking plenty of water, and getting a good night s sleep.
Love Self and others Man from Pentagon Nancy Passanante Joan Jackson Johnson
Generous to others Fr. Richard Sinner
Meditation and prayer
Prayer The most powerful weapon against trails. The most effective medicine against sickness The most valuable gift to someone you love. Author Unknown
Solit ude
Meditation Meditation is one tool that is fundamental to taking care of your mind.
Spiritual Reading
Praying Praise changes the atmosphere.
Nourish your Spirit Being Grateful
Nourish your Spirit Connecting and Impacting
Sending a card to someone can make an impact on someone especially today.
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Mr. Rogers
Spirit of Serving Others
How do you Serve Others?
True greatness is achieved in the humble serving of others.
What kind of impact will you have and how big will it be because you served others?
There is nothing better than a facial to make a woman feel good about herself.
Forgiveness In order to nourish our soul we have to be at peace with our self and other.
Who do you need to forgive? Someone you are not at peace with? Who or what has harden your heart?
Resent Somebody The moment you start to resent a person you become their slave. They control your dreams, absorb your digestion, rob you of your of peace of mind and good will, and take away the pleasure of your work. They ruin your spirituality and nullify your prayers. You cannot take a vacation without them going along! They destroy your freedom of mind and hound you wherever you go. There is no way to escape the person you resent. They are with your when you are awake.
They invade your privacy when you sleep. They are close beside you when you eat, When you drive your car, and when you are on the job. You can never have efficiency or happiness. They influence even the tone of your voice. They require you to take medicine for indigestion, Headaches and loss of energy. They even steal your last moment of consciousness before you go to sleep. So if you want to be a slave, harbor your resentments. Author Unknown
We can t say we love unless we can forgive and we can t forgive unless we have a lot of love in our hearts. In the Scripture : If you cannot forgive your brother and sister from your heart then I can t forgive you. Xinan s Story on Forgiveness Forgiveness is the hardest thing we will ever have to do.
Psychologist California said If People start forgiving, you will put me out of a job. 90% of my cases are people who can t forgive. If we don t forgive, it does more damage to us than anyone. It is like pouring acid into us.
Jewish Man of Tears O Holy One, you know I am not good at praying, but I bring you all I have. This pitcher holds my tears. Late at night, even when I am tired, I sit and try to pray to you. And then I think of my poor wife and children and the fact that they have no clean clothes to wear to services and are ashamed to come to the synagogue and I cry. And then I think of all the hungry ones, the beggars in the streets, in the cold and rain, miserable and so alone, and I cry some more. And then, God, I think of what we do to each other. I think of all the gossip and hate, the prejudices, bullying, jealousies, quarrels and wars. I think of you crying, God, and of You looking down on us hurting one another so, and I know that you weep for us always. God, I cry for you and how we must break your heart and sadden you so. Please, take my tears, accept my prayers, and take all of us back into your heart once again. Give us a blessing and forgive us in Your great mercy and kindness.
Love is the strongest desire of our heart. We are made out of love to love!! To live a life loving and forgiving will bring you more Joy than anything else!
" What a better world this could be is we would Fear less and Hope more; Whine less and Smile more; Talk less and Listen more; Hate less and Love more." Dorothy Murfin
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