September 3rd, 2007 by admin

            After four or five months of dieting, I had lost about forty pounds. The good thing about this is that when the body gets the right foods, it feels and functions better. The diet was not easy and traveling with work made things even more challenging. Eating out anywhere was no longer an option. I managed to find places that offered salads or fruit in order to cope until I could get back home and get the good stuff. We tried to buy mostly organic vegetables, which always taste better and are healthier. We were certainly learning a lot about the human body and about the foods we consume.

           In the midst of this diet and trying to clean myself out of all the toxins and negative debris that had accumulated over the years, the Lord began tugging on my heart about something. He gave me a thought that I knew was from Him. He showed me that what I was doing with my natural body, I should be doing also with my spiritual body. I was removing all junk from coming into my physical body and cleaning out all the toxins. This is supposed to restore health. In the same sense God was dealing with me about removing all junk coming into my spiritual body and to also remove the toxins that polluted my spiritual walk. This made perfect sense, but I was so concerned about cleaning the physical body I never paid any attention to trying to detox the spiritual side.

           It is important to be healthy in all aspects of our life, and sometimes we fail to remember that our spiritual side can become toxic. Let me clarify what I mean by the spiritual side. Our soul — our mind, will, and emotions is what I am talking about here when I say the spiritual side. I am not talking about our spirit. I am talking about our soul. God wanted me to clean up my thinking, align my will with His, and find joy in my salvation. He wanted me to detoxify my thinking, clean out the toxins clouding His will for my life, and to be happy. It was going to be a cleansing of the mind, will, and emotions. He had already saved me, and I knew that my spirit was going to live with him forever, but I still had stuff in my mind and emotions that needed to be cleaned. This process is continual; I am constantly trying to keep the cares of the world, wrong thoughts, Hollywood�s message, my own will, and more from creeping in. I did however, put some measures in place that would aid this process, which are still active as of this writing.