The time is always ripe to do right. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]

A healthy body cultivates a healthy mind. The Church needs to be revitalized and nourished to carry out individual vocations for the Lord. In its most basic context, Theology of the Body explains that the spiritual is displayed via the physical realm. By the sheer act of entering into flesh, God revealed that we might display His goodness and love through our own body. He also communicated that the body is substantially united to the soul.

My body, by Christ's example, becomes the instrument to the soul. Every action of my soul is done through the body. I can reveal the following truths:

The body is beautiful. It should be respected and nourished as such.
The body is not the most beautiful entity unto itself, it is beautiful in its revealing of greater truths of the soul.
Catholicism unites what the world divides.

Our health greatly impacts our ability to make good choices and displays a prerogative to make prudent decisions. There is always power in the moment. I myself struggle with self-control. Therefore, my "deciding moments" to make healthy choices exist in the grocery store, as I shop for what actually enters my pantry and my home. I encourage you all "to do right" in this context and have a great tool to help! Introducing my T+T Pantry Essentials Guide to aid you on your future trips to the store (simply click on the title for download...pssst, it's free!).

Be kind to yourself. Make choices that honor you body physically, because they are so deeply connected with the soul. Allow Christ's spirit of goodness to enter your bodily spirit and communicate the Lord's light to our world.

+Saturari,

Amanda

The One who feeds will become our food.

I have to admit...I am a primarily intellectual Christian. However I cannot deny the power of the transformation of the intellectual into the "heart," or the personal relationship with Jesus, that is necessary for the Christian faith journey. It has always been a beautiful reality for me that the Catholic Church can meet both my intellectual and spiritual hunger. That reality, I admit, took time for me to embrace.

The spiritual and physical realities were never meant to be separate. Ours is the faith of 'incarnation,' in which spiritual truths are revealed in the flesh. We can see this in the birth of Jesus, He comes to us and sleeps in a manger, a word meaning "to eat." The very place where the baby Jesus laid in the manger ("to eat") in the physical was where God met earth and revealed that we would eat of His Body later as a fulfillment of our salvation. He truly becomes our sustenance, our food. Much of Jesus' teachings revolve around the feeding of people, or at a meal. Why should our evangelization be any different?

Hunger is a basic need..our Lord knows this...we see it again and again in His teaching. Let's meet our hungering culture with Truth and Goodness.

+Saturari,

Amanda