Do you take a daily vitamin, an aspirin and eat your veggies?

     As many of us spend a little more time on the things we can do on a daily basis to improve our life and our health, I have one more to recommend that is easy and painless.

     When we take that baby aspirin each day or that vitamin pill that almost chokes us, we do it out of a bit of faith. We do not expect to see overnight results and great improvement in how we feel or our overall health in just a few days - but we continue our daily routine.  For me, I find that reading a verse or two of the Bible, or more if I am in the mood, done on a daily basis is a lot like the vitamins and the aspirin.  I do not expect miracles overnight, but I have faith that the daily reading - or my daily bread of God's word - will have a cumulative positive impact on my life.  

     You may not currently go to church.  You may even have some real problems with formal churches and formal religions.  I am not suggesting that you need to go out today and join a church or become a monk.  You may not even believe in God as I know him.  That is OK.  If you even think the Bible may just be a book someone wrote that has a lot of good principles to follow - that is a good enough reason to give it a chance.  Just a chance.  2 or 3 minutes a day reading good principles is certainly not a bad idea.  

It is easy enough to start with the New Testament and just read a couple of versus.  it is a really good story anyway and easy to follow.  When you get to the part about Jesus being nailed to the cross, just for your own curiosity, you may want to read Psalms 22, which was written 1,000 years earlier, and see if there are any interesting parallels.

Some Recommended Reading for Good Health

"The Purpose Driven Life" by Rich Warren.  What on Earth am I hear for?   Do you ever wonder why you are even alive and if there is a plan for your life - and for eternity.  Also go on the web to www.saddlebackresources.com.  You may have heard about the escaped killer in Atlanta a few years ago who shot a judge in court and eventually took a local woman hostage.  She eventually persuaded him to give up and said that Rick Warren's book was the key to her actions during this ordeal.

 "3:16" by Max Lucado.  Based on one Bible verse, The book of John,  chapter 3, verse 16;  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life".  God so loved the world...meaning God so loved YOU, that he gave the life of his son for you...want to know more about our God, who is an all loving God and not the punishing God as you may have been taught. Read "3:16" and many other great works by Lucado.  On the web:  www.maxlucado.com