Sunday Reflection

Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do no belong to yourselves but to God.

- 1 Corinthians 6:19

Through my fitness journey I’ve learned to love my body in all of its stages.  I say that because I know that once I get to my goal I’m going to have to continue to work to keep the body I want.  Learning that I needed to take care of myself and what I thought of myself was a big part of it.  I would tell myself everyday and still do, that I am beautiful.  I would repeat this to myself constantly as I was looking at my body.  Loving what I was seeing in the mirror everyday was a process.  I sometimes would think why can’t my body be like this or shaped like that and I had to realize God gave me this body for me.  This body was made for me and only me.  He gave me this healthy body to take care of and love.  I had learned I wasn’t doing that by saying bad things about it and speaking down to myself.  God gave me a body with no disabilities.  He gave me a body that could function and do whatever I put my mind to.  So I changed the way I looked at myself and thought why not speak only good things to it. I know that some days are worse then others and we have goals of what we want our bodies to look like.  I’m here to say, do whatever makes you happy because your body is a temple.  It’s okay to want to lose weight and its okay to change your diet around so that you’re eating healthy.  But remember your body is yours and it’s your temple to take care of.