I have really enjoyed these Soulful Sunday Stretch and your teaching. I am about a year into menopause and have gained 20 lbs in the last two years. It is very frustrating to say the least. I am a RevFit instructor from P25, so I know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made — in my head. It feels like I don’t get it in my heart right now. I appreciate your perspective and love to continue learning as I try to loosen my grip on losing the weight. I’d love prayer that it becomes heart knowledge as well and that I realize this body doesn’t need to be fixed.
One afternoon I was listening to Jamie and Donna Winship, likely doing a talk on hearing from God. (If you haven’t heard from them, run don’t walk and get Living Fearless or look them up on you tube or podcasts!) In the exercise with their teaching, we were to present to God something that was said to/about us at a young age and ask Him what He thought about it. I mentally scooped up all of the unwanted sexual attention I received as a middle schooler and held it up to Him.
This is going to sound weird, but in my mind I first saw Jesus, with tears going down His face. And I got the sense that He was sad over how that wasn’t how things were supposed to be. Then in the next moment, I got an image of Him holding and rocking me as a baby, immediately following by Him holding and rocking me as an old woman. The sense I got was that He was trying to help me understand that I, including and specifically my body, earthen vessel though it may be, have always been and will always be held and cherished by Him. It was probably one of the first times in my 45 years of life that I made much connection between the love of God and my physical body.
GOOD STUFF! Can't wait to get home and walk!
Let’s go!! (And stay warm out there :)
I have really enjoyed these Soulful Sunday Stretch and your teaching. I am about a year into menopause and have gained 20 lbs in the last two years. It is very frustrating to say the least. I am a RevFit instructor from P25, so I know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made — in my head. It feels like I don’t get it in my heart right now. I appreciate your perspective and love to continue learning as I try to loosen my grip on losing the weight. I’d love prayer that it becomes heart knowledge as well and that I realize this body doesn’t need to be fixed.
A little story time about God and our bodies…
One afternoon I was listening to Jamie and Donna Winship, likely doing a talk on hearing from God. (If you haven’t heard from them, run don’t walk and get Living Fearless or look them up on you tube or podcasts!) In the exercise with their teaching, we were to present to God something that was said to/about us at a young age and ask Him what He thought about it. I mentally scooped up all of the unwanted sexual attention I received as a middle schooler and held it up to Him.
This is going to sound weird, but in my mind I first saw Jesus, with tears going down His face. And I got the sense that He was sad over how that wasn’t how things were supposed to be. Then in the next moment, I got an image of Him holding and rocking me as a baby, immediately following by Him holding and rocking me as an old woman. The sense I got was that He was trying to help me understand that I, including and specifically my body, earthen vessel though it may be, have always been and will always be held and cherished by Him. It was probably one of the first times in my 45 years of life that I made much connection between the love of God and my physical body.
Oh this makes me tear up. He is WITH us and He gets us. Thank you for sharing. Every word mattered to me.