Life is draining, every moment, all the time. We have bills to pay, work to do, meals to make, people to care for, tasks to complete. When we are constantly emptying our hearts, minds, and souls, it is essential that we take responsibility to keep filling them up. What we feed our inner beings will determine what we can give to those in our spheres of influence. What we have stored, cherished, and valued in our lives is reflective of our true selves.
One of the most important lessons I learned over the years was that I needed to take responsibility for my own education, for filling my soul and mind with excellence and inspiration, and for caring for my physical well-being so that I would maintain emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
Invest in reading and memorizing passages from the Bible every day; read biographies of heroic people to be inspired and great stories for pleasure, which will fill your personal imagination with courage and healthy sentiments; read spiritual classics every day, and feed your soul on deep devotional concepts that will stretch your understanding of spirituality or theology.
When you learn to take responsibility for your own well-being, you will produce a harvest of influence and grace in every other area that is influenced by your heart health. You and I shall answer to God for what we fed our minds, how we treated our bodies, and what we celebrated in life. May the fires of our souls burn brighter with each year.
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