"...A time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted." -- Ecclesiastes 3:2 AMP
"I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well." -- Psalm 139:14 AMP
Accepting Your Body Cycles
Woman are always aware of their bodies. Changes within our hormonal balances are always sending us signals that can affect moods, strength levels, and even our perceptual capacities. If we don't understand those things, thinking positively about them and accepting them, our bodies can betray us and leave us in a non-growth predicament.
A fellow-learner in a class I taught shared thoughts about the tendency of many women to fight depression in the fall of the year. She reminded us that Psalm 1 suggests that we are all to be like trees planted by a stream -- trees which bear fruit "in...season."
Her insight? That even trees don't flower and bear fruit all the time -- only in season. But men and women alike seem to think that we should be bearing fruit all the time; we punish ourselves when we're not. She was teaching us the beauty of personal dormancy: We must allow for it and accept it joyfully....A time of inner strength-gathering for a better bloom later.
Gail MacDonald
High Call, High Privilege
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