Be thankful for your body

This is the time of year that we all reflect on the many blessings in our lives. We look around and count all of the things that we have been given. The people, the places, the jobs all that add to the better of our lives. In all of the blessings being counted how many of us take a step back and take a good look at ourselves and thank our Heavenly Father for the blessing of the body we have been given. A body that depsite it's shape,size, height and weight was given to us to use as a tool to accomplish the many things that come our way. Whether it is a trial or a triumph our body is what helps us get the job done. No one has the perfect body. No one has a body that is always easy to live with. Some of our bodies seem to give us more problems then enjoyments. But when all is said and done it is our bodies that will help us to serve,learn, grow and become stronger.

The way I see it we have two choices when it comes to our bodies. We can either look at them as a tool to help add to the great things going on in life or we can look at them as an excuse to hold us back and hide away from the many things life has to offer. In my job I see many people who have aloud their bodies to hold them back. In their minds they have convinced themselves that their bodies are not up to par to compete or compare with others in the world. In the mean time through their insecruities and lack of confidence they are keeping all of their many wonderful talents, qualities and abilities hidden away. The fear of having a less then perfect body keeps them from progressing,serving and doing good in life.

If we set aside our excuses, fears and lack of confidence, if we look at our bodies for the wonderful tools that they are, and if we quite trying to force our bodies to be some thing they were never meant to be we will be able to accomplish so much good in the world. We will be able to set aside our selfish insecurtites and serve by sharing our talents that God meant for us to share.

This year as you are sitting down to write out your list of blessings please take a good look at the many wornderful things the you are! Let's be grateful for our bodies and the lessons it helps us to learn,the mountains it helps us to climb and the better person it helps us to become.