I’ve been nursing an early onset of chills and sore throat and I realize that when I don’t physically feel well, everything else suffers – most especially my spiritual and emotional state. So I decided to take a shower in hopes of getting my spirits up. Most of the time I have the deepest life thoughts when I take a shower but today I just needed a reason to get out of bed.
I’ve always tried to understand the thought that God speaks to us in such a personal way. And today I think He was speaking to me through one of my favourite Lush face masks, haha. The Sacred Truth: “Keep your skin in beautiful condition with anti-oxidant wheatgrass, green tea and enzymatic papaya.” This stuff smells so good, and the ingredients are fresh and handmade and feels amazing on your skin. If a pot of this face mask already made my face/overall self feel good momentarily, what more will it do to my soul if I lived in “Sacred Truth” everyday?
Some thoughts that crossed my mind:
- The Truth is Sacred because it is connotative to something elusive; difficult to achieve & difficult to maintain because the Truth demands so much honesty and integrity in our daily lives.
- Living in truth doesn’t necessarily mean living so uptight and rigid. That usually doesn’t draw anyone closer to want to live an honest and truthful lifestyle. So much joy can be found in being truthful, which will naturally lead to the purest joy found in authentic freedom.
- I saw this quote on The Daily Love: “The short-term pain of facing a truth far outweighs the long-term pain of believing in a lie.”
- Expecting others to live in honesty and truth has to start within ourselves. We have to bring and live up to the truth that we have experienced and realized in our lives, so we can encourage others to do the same.
- Living in truth is a journey. We all make mistakes and we all deal with some degree of fear that we tend to mask our insecurities, worries and doubt in different parts of our lives. It’s okay to have days like this. The important thing is that we realize when we’re being bombarded by negative thoughts and re-focus on the Truth, on God’s love and His promises for us.
In what part of our lives can we strive to be more truthful?
St. Joseph and St. Gianna Molla, pray for us! 🙂