Health is the first.....Wealth!

Time flies by swiftly just when I am looking for a day to 'stop and smell the roses'....Listening briefly to the birds sing yesterday was only for a short moment ...All the time I was hearing their joyful singing my mind was racing through the project I was involved with, planning the next thing that just 'had' to be done etc.
I did not relish the moment and let it seep into my soul..
As a result, I lost a chance to replenish my spirit with the gift that nature was offering up to me in my own back yard.
What a loss!
Too many chances lost like this is very costly to me and I know this by experience.
Filling my life with doing, doing, doing is tiresome even if the doing is 'pleasurable'...
One of my greatest joys is in 'spiritual renewal' with God through....nature.
Where ever we have lived or traveled in the military, exploring and drinking of nature in that area has been my God-given gift...
Believe it or not, even on our cruise nature was my drink every morning.
Looking out at the ocean view window the moment I awoke was sheer joy to me...
Loving the water, being on the water to sleep and awake became an elixir of pure joy; in addition, exploring islands, waterfalls, sulfur volcano's, jungle cruise canals surrounded by all kind of interesting people was certainly a 'dream come true' time...
Therefore if I neglect nature's awesome moments in my own back yard .....
I neglect my own health!

Reading my today's devotion in the book of Ecclesiastes shows me my loss anew:
Make the Most of What God Gives...
Prov. 5:18-20 Message Bible......."We should make the most of what God gives,
both the bounty and the CAPACITY TO ENJOY IT,
accepting what's given and delighting in the work...
It's God's gift!
God deals out joy in the present, the N O W! "
These are God's thoughts from God's Word, The Bible!
Yep, that is exactly what it says and this ....is my Rx for full health...
The capacity to enjoy life...comes as a gift from God!
Thanks, God, for my gift of....Today!

Enjoying the God-given-Good Life on
a canal on Margurita Island, Venezuela...