Boyett Health News

Hello to you from Boyett Health Services! Here we are, nearing those summer months! We hope your year has been abundantly blessed so far and that you've made some steps to be healthier in the coming months. We all have areas in our lives that could use some overhauling. The focus of this month's newsletter is to help you find success in walking out those choices you've made to live healthier. Here's to the wonderful opportunity we have to start afresh everyday!! We wish you the best, and God Bless!

Making Time for What is Important

In a blog by JD Meier, we've found some great topics that relate to making the most of what you have, producing more in life and motivating yourself toward greater things. The blog walks you through the steps to whittling down the list of important things in your life and helping you focus on what matters MOST to you. It is often difficult to reign in all the different aspects of our lives and really concentrate on specific areas because we feel as though time is like sand that is slipping ever so quickly through our fingers. We need to slow down and take a few moments...or even a few hours, if needed, to look at where we are, where we are going, and where we want to end up.

In regards to our health, we put off going to the doctor... We don't take care of ourselves, and we think that we'll work on getting healthier at a more opportune time. Unfortunately, those "opportune times" just never seem to happen.

If we are honest with ourselves and get down to the nitty gritty, we know deep down that tomorrow is not promised to us. When we are looking at chronic health conditions like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and others that have life threatening possibilities, our health should be on the top of our priority list. What sense does it make to place other people or other things over our health when it means we may not be here to enjoy them down the road?? Think about it.

Take a moment to visit the blog and see what you think. It's called 30 Days of Getting Results. It just may be that you find some tips and ideas that help to get you on the right track!
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Peace: Is it attainable and how can it help?

Do you have peace of mind? Did you know that in a world of constant busyness and chaos, where we see nation against nation, man against man; when all around us we witness suffering, depression, sickness, bondage and the like, there is still an opportunity for peace within?

God is the greatest source of peace. He is never limited, or too tired and He is never worried. He isn't human, so we cannot ascribe human traits and feelings to Him. He isn't limited as we are and He certainly doesn't handle things the same way we do or see things from the same perspective from which we seem them. The bible says that His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways higher than our ways (Is. 55:8-9). He is a BIG God who is at work in the big things, yet He is awesomely aware of the tiniest details of your life and He cares about what concerns you. He can bring calm, even rest, to the sleep starved mother and the overworked father. His peace extends to the depressed, the lonely, the addicted, the broken hearted...

Psalm 46:1-3God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear,
Even though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah

Peace with God can bring a deep peace within yourself, thus becoming a source of peace with other men. This peace does not come easy and it doesn't just happen. It takes some effort on our part. For though God gives freely to His children who ask of Him, many simply do not ask. Much too busy to slow their pace, they make no time for God to bring them the calm, quiet reassurance that He is divinely in control. Surely, daily He can be trusted with the heaviest of burdens and it is certain that we will find that He is a God who still answers, when we ask of Him in faith.

Peace of mind and spirit can also mean a healthier body. Proverbs 4:23 says, " Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. " and yet again, Proverbs 14:30 NIV says, "A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." When you stress less and find yourself content with such things as you have, you find that you are happy and that you think more positive thoughts.