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MAY 20<br />
HOW DO I LOOK?<br />
“Do not worry in your soul, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor<br />
about your body, what you will put on. Is not the soul more than food and<br />
the body more than clothing? …So why do you worry about clothing?<br />
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and<br />
yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one<br />
of these.” (Mt 6: 25, 28-29)<br />
Christ is not saying here that physical beauty is unimportant. After all,<br />
God “arrays” His creation with beauty, and He Himself is “clothed” with<br />
beauty (Ps 92/93:1). And we all know that we are entrusted with caring<br />
for God’s creation, including our own bodies; we all need a healthy<br />
routine or discipline, regarding eating and grooming.<br />
What He is talking about here is balance. Because the way I eat and look,<br />
including my weight and clothes, can easily become a source of excessive<br />
“worry,” or even an obsession. Christ is saying to me: Don’t obsess over<br />
this. I can, and I will, says God, take care of this. He is also saying: Your<br />
capacity to see it, and to emanate it, comes from Me. So there is a deeper,<br />
bigger side to “beauty.” And I will constantly miss out on the bigger side<br />
if all my attention is directed at the physical one.<br />
Today my focus will be a God-centered life, and I tend to my health, my<br />
appearance, and my well-being in His love and His light.<br />
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