A Journey of Healing and Health

This blog is all about personal healing, and regaining my health. It focuses primarily on the physical, but also includes spiritual, mental, and emotional issues. True healing encompasses all four of these areas. If you are a new follower, please start at the beginning, which you'll find out is really a prologue, and continue in the sequence of days. I hope you will leave comments. And feel welcome to share this blog with others. This is a work in progress, unfolding day by day. Thank you for reading and sharing this 100-Day Journey! Except where noted, all material in this blog is copyright 2011 Words to Words -- The Word Stewards.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Day 19 - Day of Rest? I Don't Think So!

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20: 11

Sunday, March 27

What a day!

For a Sunday, it was no "day of rest" for me and several others, as we devoted the afternoon and evening to play rehearsal. We usually don't rehearse on Sunday, but there was no way around it this time, with half the cast having been gone last week for spring break, and opening night just four days away. It's going to be a busy, busy week.

So I had a quick breakfast of three slices of crisp bacon and a fresh nectarine, and a bowl of chicken and vegetable soup for lunch. I set a pork chop out to thaw for dinner, and quickly grilled it with red onion when I finally got home. A simple tossed salad finished the meal.

Have I mentioned yet that part of this health journey is to learn how to handle stress? I'm supposed to be keeping my stress level down as low as possible, and still earn a living, take care of my house, PLUS shop for and prepare all this food. On a regular schedule. Three meals a day, with between-meal snacks. No convenience foods allowed.

Add in the upcoming play, and you have to know that STRESS is a definite part of this picture. Especially this week. But amazingly, I don't feel overwhelmed. Instead, I feel energized, and excited. Yes, I wake up at night with song lyrics and dialogue running through my mind, as my subconscious works overtime to try to ensure I won't make a fool of myself on stage. Yet I get enough sleep, and feel relatively rested.

I don't know if I'd be so energetic, though, if I hadn't been following this diet. I'm sure all the fresh fruits and vegetables, and the absence of starches and sugars, are making a difference in not only how I feel, but also how I cope.

Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone." Genesis 35: 3
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