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Inviting You to Provide Some Feedback

Over the last few months, readership of my blog has increased steadily. I’m hoping that the content is helpful …. a blend of teaching, encouragement and challenge.

As you might appreciate, there are so many directions I can take this blog. In that light, I’d find it helpful to receive feedback from you so that I might tweak what I’m doing. Comments would be appreciated. If you’d like to read more about a particular subject area or any aspect of the faith and health connection, please let me know.

Feel free to post them as a comment, or email me.

Thanks so much…… and have a terrific week!!

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Weekly Faith and Health Scripture - Prov 4:23 & 17:22 - Your Heart

A few days ago I was listening to Johnny Cash’s song, “I Walk the Line”, while I was running. One of the lines in the song is “Keep a close watch on this heart of mine.” It reminded me of several scriptures:

  • Proverbs 4:23 - “Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.”
  • Proverbs 14:30 - “A heart at peace gives life to the body but envy rots the bones.”
  • Proverbs 15 :13 - “A happy heart makes the face cheerful.”
  • Proverbs 17:22 - “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Broken HeartFrom a spiritual perspective, our heart is the deepest part of our being. It perhaps includes our soul and our spirit. It’s clear by what we read in scripture that God advises, in fact he commands us, to take care of matters of the heart. Certainly Johnny Cash knew that, and God wants us to know that too.

How do we take care of our heart? We guard against things that are not of God. We resist the lies that the evil one speaks into our mind. We spend time reading God’s Word so that His truth can sink deep into our spirit and soul - our heart. As we understand His truth by reading the Word, we do our very best to live our lives in accordance with His guidelines and His truth. We monitor our behaviors, our thoughts and what we say. We take an honest look, on a periodic basis, deep into our heart, to see if there is any aspect of our heart that is not in alignment with God.

Having any bitterness or unforgiveness in our heart certainly is not of God. If somebody has hurt you in the past, if you are upset with God or you haven’t forgiven yourself concerning an issue of your life, your heart is probably not right with either God, yourself or another person. God would want us to take this issue to Him prayerfully so that we don’t carry this burden in our heart. Doing this frees us up on the inside so that more of God’s Spirit can control us.

Yes, our heart is the wellspring of all life. It is at the deepest level of our heart that God lives in us with His Holy Spirit. He does not want to share space with anything that’s not good, pure and holy. Is your heart pure? Is your heart full of peace, joy and love? I hope so, because when that’s the case, God’s spirit certainly can be alive in you to the fullest. Consequently, your life will probably be healthier because of it. You’ll also be a better example for others who observe you as you live this life.

Take good care of your heart….and have an awesome day!!

See more scriptures about the heart

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Sharing This Good News & RSS Feeds with Others

I’ve been asked to give subscribers to my posts an easy way to share these feeds with others at popular social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Facebook, Mixx, StumbleUpon and Digg to name a few. For those who may have heard about Social Bookmarking but don’t know what it’s all about, read more on Social Bookmarking on Wikipedia.

After doing some research and changing my blog setup, I think I’ve been able to provide a fix. Beginning with this post, you should see links for many sites at the end of the feed. One of them is an Email link - email link - that makes it easier to send a link for a feed to someone. You can also use all these links to share any page on my site with others. Please let me know if there is a link you need that I may not have included and if it’s available, I’ll add it. Read more about this plug-in to my Word Press software that makes this possible at Sociable.

I appreciate your interest and desire to share my feeds and pages with others! If you have any questions or feedback please add a comment here so others can benefit from the discussion.

Thanks and have an awesome day!

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It’s Springtime in North Carolina!!

It’s definitely spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. I spent much of today sitting out back writing an article on how God can help us manage our stress. back yardFortunately I didn’t feel much of any stress throughout the day as I was writing. :-) On the contrary, it was wonderful relaxing in the 80 degree sun-drenched day sitting under a big umbrella on my small patio.

I know it’s spring because of the flurry of activity in the air. Today was my first sighting of the year of a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. He came to the feeder no less than a dozen times throughout the day. And then there’s the chickadees family. I suspect that yesterday the babies hatched in their nest. All day yesterday and today I watched the parents fly to the nest( in a box meant for Eastern Bluebirds) with green worms in their beaks to feed the little ones. If it’s quiet out, I can hear the babies chirping as they are being feed. Ah….. another visit by the hummingbird as I type this! Cool!!!

The flowers are popping up nicely. Within a few weeks the perennials meant to attract and feed the hummingbirds and butterflies will be doing their magic. And I’ll have a few roses in bloom about that time.

All this is definitely conducive to writing some good material… and it’s good for my health!

I had a great run today, albeit it a little warm. Now I just have to get out again on my friend’s boat and go fishing for some large mouth bass!

Hope you have a great day! I did!!

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