What do you take from this relationship?
What do you give to this relationship?
Do you take more than you give?
Do you give more than you take?
What does your taking do to the relationship?
What does your giving do to the relationship?
Do you take what is necessary?
Do you give what is necessary?
How do you replenish what you take?
How do you replenish what you give?
Do you think taking will continue?
Do you think giving will continue?
– Osasu Oviawe
Body, mind and spirit must agree as one, to be whole.
One way to bring all into agreement is to discipline what is immediately obvious – the body.
Just as it is impossible to have a peeing section of a swimming pool and expect other parts of the pool to remain hygienic, it is impossible to destroy the body and expect the mind and spirit to thrive.
I have an issue with gurus that de-emphasise the body and promote allowing it to waste away. It is a self-limiting approach, because no mind or spirit can long carry on, without a well nurtured body.
Discipline your body. Learn what works and what doesn’t work for your body and apply that knowledge consciously. Your body gives immediate cues such as inflammation, indigestion, flatulence, rashes, weakness, itching and many others you can notice if you pay attention. Avoid what the body rejects, embrace what your body accepts and leave the table before you’re full.
When the body is out of tune, the mind is all over the place and the spirit is silenced.
When the body is well tuned, the mind is calm and the spirit takes control.
– Osasu Oviawe
John 11:49-52
But one of them, Ca’iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Homily:
Even from the mouth of the enemy, God will bring forth your glory, Amen.
