All the Noise

Maybe it is just me but it feels like we or I am at a point in my life where there is so much outside noise. People telling you how you should look, what you should wear, the perfect thing to eat, the correct way to work out, the best way to have relationships, the best high paying job and so much more.

At the beginning of the month of May I wrote in my journal “Whatever makes you feel the sun from the inside out, chase that” and that has been my motto this month. Whatever makes you feel joy and whatever fills your cup mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or physically just do that!

I know I relate a lot back to my own personal health and fitness journey but that is something I can easily apply most things to. In our day and age where everyone on social media is an “influencer” it is easy to get wrapped up in opinions and perspectives of others. Eat this amount of calories, do this workout to look lean, buy this cute matching workout set to make you feel good. The thing about this is that if we are always doing what society tells us to do, eat, how to move or what to buy we are going to be running around and around in circles and we will truly never be happy.

We were not meant to constantly be dieting, we are not meant to constantly be working out, we are not meant to constantly be thinking about what foods to eat or which ones to avoid, we are not meant to constantly be aiming towards a certain weight, pant size or arbitrary number on a fitness watch.

The thing is is that God didn’t make us all to fit a certain “asthetic.” He doesn’t want us to choose the world over Him. He didn’t make us to eat less than 1500 calories, spend hours and hours at the gym, beating ourselves up by how we look in the mirror and He didn’t make us to listen to all the outside noise.

Last year I was put into a box, by myself and others. I thought I was only capable of doing a certain job, I thought I had to walk this many steps, eat this amount of food or do this type of exercise in order to be happy but true genuine joy and happiness is not found in people, a job, a workout or diet plan. True genuine joy comes from the Lord, and the Lord Himself. Stop listening to the outside noise of the world and listen to the words God is speaking to you right now.

These days I am listening to the Lord more in a time that is chaotic (more to come about that later). I am honoring the body that He gave me and fueling it and moving it in ways that bring me joy. Right now I am consuming more food, I am running more and I am chasing that sunshine that He is lighting me up with.

Choose joy, chase the sunshine that God is giving you, know He loves you and you are incredibly worth it.

As Always,

Abi