Health Care You Can Live With by Scott Morris

Author:Scott Morris [Morris, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61626-247-1
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 1984-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Treat yourself with compassion.

God made room for you. In sending Jesus into body-and-spirit humanity, God reached out to be connected to you. God welcomed you in from the outskirts and gave you a place to belong in the kingdom of God. In compassionate mercy, you were made part of God’s family!

As you continue to discover what wellness means in your own life, ask how you can put on compassion toward others and yourself. Being compassionate toward others might actually be the easier task. Once you start looking, you will see needs you can respond to, people you can welcome into your life without expecting anything from them, opportunities to give, ways to open your heart and invite others into your space.

You might have to dig a little deeper to understand how to show compassion toward yourself. How might you be rejecting yourself because, for some reason, you think you don’t deserve compassion? How might you be turning your back on your own value as a body-and-spirit being created and loved by God? How might you be leaving yourself standing on the outskirts of God’s kingdom, waiting for a place to belong?

Look at yourself through the same eyes of welcoming love through which God sees you. See the wholeness God wants for you, body-and-spirit. If God wants it for you, shouldn’t you want it for yourself?

I had a patient I called the “nickel lady.” She lived on only about $200 a month from Social Security, but she kept a stack of nickels that she gave to the Church Health Center. Every day she added a nickel to the stack. Whenever she came in to see us, she brought her nickels as a donation. She believed in the value of what we do not just for her, but even more for others who need the care we provide. The nickel lady didn’t have much to begin with, but she gave what she had, and she made a habit of it.

Starting small adds up. Even small habits bring big changes when it comes to health. Make sure to put a nickel in the compassion stack every day. It will be good for your health.

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