Are You Eating?

In Los Angeles there's a famous canyon where everyone works out and walks their dogs called, Runyon Canyon. I try to make it there as much as possible (we know how that goes!) to go for a "challenging" walk! Not your average walk in the park. The steep hills, the huge mountain rocks to climb, various routes to take and let's not leave out the sun beaming down in the midst of all of this. Again, I will say, not your average walk in the park. Well one day I went with some friends, I hadn't eaten and decided I would be just fine!! And I was, for the first 30 mins. While walking down, I felt fine, but as soon as we started climbing up, I started feeling like I was going to pass out. Light-headed and nauseous... I had to take a seat. Everyone kept walking and before I knew it, I was laid out on the ground. No food and no energy to even think about moving! "Jesus, Take the wheel" I said to myself! Lol When I look back on that incident, the missing component from me not achieving my goal was a lack of food. I was thinking, in our daily lives when we lack spiritual food, how can we make it up these mountains? When circumstances are steep, life mountains are hard to climb, tough decisions are to be made and all of the heat on our shoulders... How can we make it if we lack spiritual food? The answer is, we can't. We need the word of God to help us on this journey or we just won't make it, we will be laid out. We won't have the wisdom, the power or the peace to make it through. We will be living but not LIVING! Without physical food, I ended up getting up and walking back down the path I had just come from while everyone else kept going forward. They knew the difficulty it would be on the canyon and the significant impact that food would be on their journey. Ladies.... I encourage all of us to take time to spiritually feed ourselves. God wants us to live life abundantly and knows that through His word we can! Spiritual food sustains us, gives us energy and the enthusiasm to move forward in this life. It gives us hope when we're hopeless and comforts us when our world seems to be spinning out of control. Lastly, I also encourage you to never go to the canyon on an empty stomach!! (smile)

Love,
Dot