Just as your body does, so, too, your soul requires nourishment, refreshment, rest, repair. exercise and stimulation. It also needs pleasure and joy. Those things are provided through non-corporeal means under both conscious and unconscious direction via our intellect. Our intellect receives information and stimulation through our senses. It interprets and responds to that data. The data gathering is very corporeal. Memories are chemically stored. but the rest an esoteric process.
Too many of us neglect the health of our souls. We go to church and we pray and believe that is all that we need to maintain a healthy soul. It is so much more complex. That spark that defines who we really are needs all the care of a newborn baby. Although it came with the package when we were delivered, we initially neglect our souls in favor of growing our bodies and our personalities. The growth of our souls cannot actually begin until our communication skills are more advanced. If we are very lucky, we have parents who initiate the earliest nurturing of our souls. Once we are able to independently express our feelings and can begin to understand more complex communication, it is our personal responsibility to take the wheel of our navigation system and learn to set our own course to those places and experiences in life that will promote the growth of our souls. When it is all over, let me be able to say with perfect joy, "To you, O, Lord, I lift up my soul."
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