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Be Still

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Just Be When I was in Renfrew, I developed a love/hate relationship with yoga. Though I always incorporated it in my workout routine, yoga was never the main focus. It was always just a warm up, something to do to get my body ready for the real stuff. Being that over exercising was a huge symptom of mine, I was placed on exercise restriction the entire time I was in treatment-- and it annoyed the hell out of me. I was eventually allowed to participate in yoga, which I was very sore about. What was I supposed to do in yoga? Stretch and balance and then...? It was pointless to me to do what I considered to be warm up exercises if I wasn't going to transition into a very vigorous workout. What a waste of time. I did decide to go one day and I hated it. It was torture. It was like giving me a taste of something I was craving and then snatching it away. We did stretch after stretch after stretch, never once going into intense calorie burning exercises. It was awful and frustrating f...

Have You Found Jesus Yet?

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Honestly, I didn't know He was missing It irks me when people say that they "found Christ". I know exactly what they are implying but it's being phrased all wrong. Jesus is not lost, we are.  He is seeking  us and when we come to Him, it's because He found us, not the other way around. I was talking with a good friend of mine tonight and was trying to explain to him that although God is seeking us, He is not unaware of our whereabouts, our positions. He knows where we are but He wants us to choose Him out of a free will, not out of force. He will of course, tug at our hearts and draw us close to Him, but He will not make us accept Him. If we choose another route, He will not force us to make another turn or scream that we are going the wrong way. A comedian explained it like this: when using a navigational system and following it according to its prompts, we will get to where we need to be. But when we start to deviate from those directions, it redirects...