Saturday, July 20, 2013
I feel very good about this challenge thus far. It has not been a perfect week, but I have made some positive changes that this 8 week challenge will hopefully help me to adopt as lifelong habits. As Matthew Kelly says, when your habits change, your life changes! I am really enjoying spending time reading. I am reading the book Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious, and I am in the part about "beautiful" The author makes wonderful points about beauty not being related to how we look on the inside, but being who God made us to be. There are not "haves" and "have nots" when it comes to the beauty God gave all women. Pat talks about the many amazing and special gifts that different women might have, but says that every woman has four universal gifts that characterize the beauty of womanhood: receptivity (being open to love, the soft spots we have in our hearts for others) generosity (giving of oneself to others in response to that receptivity), sensitivity (the gift of being able to see with your heart), and maternity ( a call to heroic, selfless love for others). This reading is helping me to see that my quest for holiness is not an attempt to gain only a healthier body, for purpose of "looking good" but instead an effort to be a better person, a healthier person, but changing habits and focusing upon the gifts God gave me.
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Bbobby, I downloaded the book and so far I really love it! Did you see they are having a training in August on this for facilitating a womens group based on this book. I think it would be so awesome to do this at Saint Johns. What do you think?
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