Last week I found myself responding to the Healthy Aging campaign. As I became more aware of the messages that get steered toward us on a seasonal basis, I realized that this is also National Women?s Health and Fitness month. Unlike ?Women?s Health Month,? a May government program, this month?s cranked up endeavor to get women thinking about their health and fitness comes from another corporation which has trademarked the issue for promotional purposes. A quick visit to a government website reveals that there are actually some thirty different causes being promoted this month. Rabies, Children?s Backpack Awareness, World Heart Day, and, my favorite for September, ?Get Ready Day? are some of the other groups on this month?s schedule.
Granted, I haven?t found myself inundated with information about rabies or farm safety lately. But now that I know it?s out there I might notice it. ?Usually, when I see ads ?that don?t seem to pertain to me or if I catch someone one the radio talking about women?s health issues I tune out. Not my problem.
And yet, a seed has been sown. In some way I do take in the message. Some days I notice that I?ve been deluged with warnings about the myriad dangers of life in the flesh. It?can?be a little depressing and anxious making. A real and substantial sense of good seems a little more distant at those times and I feel a little like doubting Thomas in the Bible. The story goes: after Jesus? crucifixion it seemed to almost all of his followers that the good they had placed their hope and faith in had turned out not be as powerful as they had believed. When Mary came back from the open tomb and told the disciples that she?d seen the Lord alive they were more than a little dubious. Thomas gave doubt a voice, ??Unless I see the nail holes in his hands, put my finger in the nail holes, and stick my hand in his side, I won?t believe it.??He needed physical proof. When Jesus then walked in the door he told poor Thomas,??Take your finger and examine my hands. Take your hand and stick it in my side. Don?t be unbelieving. Believe.? (John 20: 24-27)
The problem with constantly measuring how you?re doing based on what you can see, hear, feel, etc. is that you miss out on what is actually the biggest and most powerful thing in the room; Spirit. Interesting that it was mostly the women who stuck by Jesus at the end when the rest of his disciples were running for their lives. And interesting that it was a woman who was first to accept his ascension and its implications.
Perhaps the feminine qualities of intuition, love, and wisdom are the best actual responses in a month devoted to women?s health and fitness. What makes any of us really fit are these spiritual attributes that come from God and act naturally in us to express divine good. Mary Baker Eddy (another Mary with keen spiritual sense) wrote, ?We must silence this lie of material sense with the truth of spiritual sense. We must cause the error to cease that brought the belief of sin and death and would efface the pure sense of omnipotence.? (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pg. 318). Those ideas and the realness of the spiritual world behind them give me a better basis to live from, a more solid foundation from which to encounter the demands of Life. Let your intuition and hope out of the box and let spiritual sense remind you that God is able to meet our human needs. ? ? twitter: @JosephFarkas
Source: http://www.christiansciencewi.net/?p=524
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