Food, body image, clothes

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink,
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky;
they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are not you more important than they?”
via USCCB | NAB – February 27, 2011.

I can visualize the Lord gathering me close, cupping my face into His scarred hand and whispering this to me. “Therefore I tell you, my dear Essy, do not worry….”.  How did He know? How did He know that these specific things (food, my body, clothes) would become such a strugle  and stronghold for ME a couple of thousand years after these words were spoken. I can’t imagine that in His day it held the same impact…it couldn’t have…right? I bet those tunics could hide a multitude of sins ; )

He’s telling us to not ‘worry’…NOT, to not be concerned or care…but not be obsessed over it or overly attached to it. Here we are heading into Lent and this is the perfect time for me to review my ‘attachments’.  I think these areas are the perfect place for me to start.  I now place them at the foot of the Cross and relinquish my attachment for them and now walk forward in freedom allowing myself to be lead by the Lord.  Speak Lord for your servant is listening.