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-- 365 Days: Jan 1, Day 1
-- Purpose of this letter
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365 Days: Jan 1, Day 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
January 1
Week 1 Health Principle: Day-Tight
Compartments
Read Genesis; Chapters 1-7
Walk 3 miles: actual miles walked _____
Eat 5 fruits or vegetables _____
Virtue: Temperance-Eat not to dullness;
drink not to elevation.
The first thing God did after making earth and heaven
was make day and night-to make the "first day."[i]
Did his choice to first make "the first day" indicated
some importance to the unit of time, the "day?"
Christ said to pray for today's bread[ii] and that we
should "not think of tomorrow"[iii] because we have
enough troubles today.[iv] Does the "day" concept
help you to better health?
William Osler, MD-the founder of Internal Medicine at
John's Hopkins, and author of the authoritative
treatise on medicine during his generation-when
asked to give advice to the graduating class of
John's Hopkins, chose to stress the importance of
living in "day-tight compartments."[v] He taught the
benefits to health (mental and physical) of living one
day at a time. He also recommended 15 to 20
minutes with the Bible daily (about the time it will
take you to read the Bible daily using the plan in this
course).
It's impossible to physically exist simultaneously in
multiple days. You can live only one minute, only
one instant-the present. You lose the present
when immobilized while consideing yesterday, last
week, tomorrow, or 5 minutes ago. Living the
present day stationary because of thoughts of
anything other than the present moment, you lose
the present and so live more than one day at a
time. Present moments pass wasted; in this way you
lose the day, a series of days, a lifetime.
Periodically, you must climb the mountain and look at
the path. Like tuning your car, this climb for
adustment should be sheduled and perfomed but not
continuous and immobilizing or else there can be no
travel. Making adjustments requires that you look
behind and ahead and not only at the present
moment in which you plant your feet. But, a planned
limited journey to a mountaintop for a better view is
a conscious constructive use of the present
moment. Vision can be clarified means discussed
later. But to anchor your feet at the lookout point
(with regret or pride in the path behind and ahead
while the day passes) deflates the mountain into a
pit of imprisoned blindness. It's movement that gives
clarity to vision. Move, then stop. Move, then
stop. It's the way the lizard captures prey. It's the
way an insect finds nectar. It's the way people find
purpose, health, and enlightenment.
For superior health of spirit, mind, and body, make
daily planned stops to look forward and behind. Use
the scriptures and stillness and prayer to give vision
from the mountain of God's spirit infused by sipping
the clean waters of ancient inspired scripture mixed
with prayer. Use rest to restore energy; then spring
to action. Stop daily: rest, pray, contemplate
purpose, offer thanks, forgive, accept forgiveness.
Then move with purpose and present-instant living.
God-created a grid on which to build health and
accomplishment: day-tight compartments with time
to stop and time to go.
Use this stopped time, now, to find-the best
purpose you can imagine (for now).
Now, go
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Purpose of this letter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These daily reminders will hopefully encourage the
basic very small steps every day that will lead to
much improved health by the end of the year.
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Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email:
charles@runels.com
phone:
251-625-2612
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