Happy 12/12/12! I just had to put that bit of geek lore in there. Most of you will be somewhat unimpressed with the interesting date. I can sympathize with that. After all, it's not like everyone can win the lottery today. For most of us, this will simply be another day. However, a major change today would make for easy remembering of the date. I wonder how many couples set the date for this date? Imagine the horror twenty years down the road when one of them cannot remember the date!
In the old days, a group of fellows beat themselves to cleanse their spirits. We tend to laugh at their efforts. Wouldn't beating your body up make a problem worse instead of better? After we stop chuckling, a certain truth may enter our minds. Have we not done the same in some similar way? Perhaps one of us grew up with an emotional problem, and then denied healing by eating too much to add the problem of obesity to the first problem. You may have found a different method to physically punish your own body for an emotional problem. I'm there with you, many or all of my physical problems may be from beating the emotional problem with a physical stick in a manner of speaking. Like the proverbial flogging of the dead moose (It's a northern proverb.), we have beaten the poor body senseless while standing in the way of healing the emotional one. Maybe. We need to take this up with God, for not all physical problems come from emotional roots.
Take up the position of the prayer warrior, and seek God's wisdom in this. Get quiet in your prayers and listen for the Spirit's guidance. But, believe and be prepared for applying the action part of our faith to the problem.
Bucky
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