People suffered terrible situations out of a hope for the future. As an American, I am actually living the freedom that my ancestors sought, and if I fail to recognize that or enjoy it, that would be a failure.
I can express my gratitude through devoting my time to proper things, which do not include starving myself.
(Even fasting religiously must not be the mere absence of food and water or it is starvation not fasting.)
If I am awake I really ought to be praying or immersing myself in scripture... but, as I start to congratulate myself for again realizing how near sighted and foolish it is to waste my life in pursuit of vanity, I suddenly remember something. I was given a body and it is a thing that will be mine forever, so I really ought not just leave it's maintenance to God. I ought to learn how to care for it and what truly makes it healthy.... BUT, keep in mind what really matters.
Obesity, is not the sin, it is the giving into the flesh excessively that is problematic.
I am thinking about malformation. It is thought that those types of things are just trials to increase strength so to speak. Well, I have been disabled, and expect that when resurrected body will function properly. Oh, I remember a story about a method actor who underwent so much to transform himself into a certain being. I thought, well, to such people, our physical al appearance must not mean much or as much, because they know full-well that any appearance can be changed with enough effort, they must know that something else is the measure of a person.
I ought to rest, I have thought enough for one morning.
I want something more that to merely appear beautiful. I want to be beautiful and I feel like.... gesamkuntswerk no part is in itself beautiful, but together they relect what it is
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