Embrace the Within no. 15

“God is good all the time.”

Embrace the Within.

I have not been anywhere near one hundred percent over the past few days with my knee after rediscovering the joys of bike riding and pushing myself always a little too much. Today I awoke to find my knee feeling so much better after praying upon it last night. I really needed it to work well today as I went back to work so I wouldn’t be slow and a distraction to getting things accomplished.

And today is going to be our first day reporting back to the building and looking forward to a new school year and all the promise and opportunity for growth that brings. Today there will be new faces all around and new challenges all around as well. The positive side is that I am prepared and planned out already for the first units and will get everything else in order during the course of the day including our presentation of our true crime lessons tomorrow at county development.

Today I am going to take the time to focus on preparation. I am going to do the best I can today to set into motion the year I want for myself and my students by laying a better framework built upon the work of years past. I am going to work to make everything deliberate. To build upon my plans, I will revisit my classroom and my goals as I look to the past to guide the future.

I hope you take some time to reflect on the past today as well, even if you are not building something new today. The past is a great place to see what worked for God’s glory and what did not. Keep the lessons learned in the past as a warning and a blessing about what is coming in the days ahead. Today I move forward with a sense of, “compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience” as I build a better today which will lead to a better tomorrow.

Peace to your home. Bless your being. The reign of God is now. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyNepheshMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin

Embrace the Within no. 14

“Tomorrow is uncertain. All I have is the present.”

Embrace the Within.

I love making plans and lists. I will definitely be making a list tomorrow as I sit through meetings and prepare for another school year. I find a peace in planning that allows me to let worry slide away. Plans, for me, combat the uncertainty of tomorrow.

I have a routine for the same reason. Every morning when I wake, I begin with the same routine of physical, mental, and spiritual health in order to align my nephesh with the purpose for the day. And that purpose is the same every day. My purpose is to work toward being better in body and mind and spirit daily. And that is sometimes and often a painful experience. I am quite used to the pain of aging and working on physical health like I have never before BUT the pain is a sign of growth and change. And we do need some pain to enter our life and should not do everything to dull or mask that pain.

Maybe you need a plan for your life. I know that having a plan to make time for God is an important step in the process of adding to my routine. As I worked on physical and mental health, I learned slowly that the spiritual component of health was just as important. If I wasn’t taking time to get to all the aspects of health, then there was going to be adverse problems with the other two.

For years I focused on just mental health. As long as I knew enough, studied enough, read enough, thought enough, I was going to be alright. BUT, your mind isn’t healthy if you keep feeding your body garbage. Your mind runs on the same food that you feed your muscles. So, working on clearing out a lot of that garbage helped get the body and the mind together which finally led to getting my spirit healthy.

It has been a process that is extremely important to understand in our spiritual life. There are a lot of folks out there acting like our spirit and our bodies are not connected. BUT, what you feed your mind and your body also affects your spirit. Running your body off foods that are garbage, running your mind on studies that are garbage, will only lead to a spirit that struggles in a dump. Cleaning up our body and mind helps our spirit get exposed to the clean environment it needs to grow.

There are plenty of folks out there working on one aspect of their self. And we all need to get all of our self in alignment. We need a body and a mind and a spirit working in unison to build the better self.

Peace to your home. Bless your being. The reign of God is now. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyNepheshMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin