A Little Fat and A Lot Happy

I work out.  Not crazy though.  But I do.  I also eat.  A lot.  I love food.  I tell my friends that I'd rather be a little fat and happy than super skinny and miserable.  I mean, yes of course, I want to be fit.  I feel so much better when I workout.  I know I did something good for myself.  I also want to be conscious of what I feed my body.  I believe it's important not just physically but even more important spiritually.  But very recently, I have had several convos with a friend.  About focusing more on overall health than what we will NEVER look like in a bikini.  This post is dedicated to her because she awakened something in me that has been sitting and stirring in my heart for a very long while.  

I mean, where did all the HOT MOM talk come from.  And what does it mean?  The whole MILF movement has got me thinking,  when did we shift so much of the focus to ourselves and what we look like on the outside and ignore what is going on in our hearts?  I'm not preaching here, I am speaking to something that has been going on inside of me.  I love to feel pretty, dress up, I love fashion...even though most of my days are spent with no makeup and in workout clothes regardless whether I made it to the gym.  I want to take care of myself because I want to be a good steward of what God gave me...a body that needs to be nourished, but not leaving my inside to ruins.  

Mark 8:36 says "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?"

In the same way I have been wondering what does it mean if I look great in a bikini but I have no value for others?  If my body is great (by the world's standard) yet my heart is an unhealthy mess?  

Can we have both? ABSOLUTELY!  

But in the end, my body will return to dust just like it began.  And I want who I was (not what I looked like) to have mattered. 

I am going to wear my lipstick, eat salad, dress up, and workout...but I am going to FOCUS on leaving a legacy of LOVE on the earth.  

L.








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