Staying Healthy

May 23

We may not face the same rigors as a professional athlete, but we still need our health.

We need our mental health: the shelves and storage racks of our minds not overflowing, but sortable, if not completely neat. Our words and phrases and memories where we left them, and our emotions not completely in check, but not completely dominating our actions.

We need our relational health: the network of support that we support in turn, people giving us assistance and also providing the only consistent source of meaning, those who we love and know.

We need our spiritual health: a connection to something larger than ourselves, ever moving, always expanding, here and not here, felt rarely but believed almost always.

We need our emotional health: a palette that includes everything, with no emotion stunted to the back, but none left at the helm of the wheel for too long.

And yes, we need our physical health: the bodies that support everything listed here above.

We need our health.

But hoping we stay healthy isn’t a plan. At least one of those things will be out of sync. And you’ll need the rest of them to steady the way.

Staying healthy isn’t a plan. Planning for when something goes wrong is.

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