I was asked this question today. I didn’t know where to begin, in short I said “health”

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What I meant was the health of the soul, health of the mind and health of the body. Health is a profound thing. health is what keeps us and develops us. Health is the result of heathy habits.

Healthy routine, the consistency of an action that’s so tedious and self depriving but through deprivation of pleasure comes freedom. Freedom form the shackles of the mind.

a healthy soul is attractive, is peaceful, is gravitating, is moving gracefully like a dancer on her tip toes flowing. is beautiful.

I asked, what was he most grateful for, “the adversities of life” he answered.

I thought it was so profound and beautiful, its the action of self deprivation, discipline, determination. overcoming of the self.

Jesus Christ is the overcomer of the world, and he thought his children to be overcomers of the world. God never promised a good life, but promised he would stick around through the trials and tribulations. Those, what shape us, those that inflect us to become like him. Little Christs, overcomers of the world.

Pain is powerful, its transformative, its strengthening.

Grieving of the old self is what makes us overcomers.

we must fall to get up, we must die to live.

As he did for us, so we will.