a good post Hepzibah...
my husband and I both were caught in the worldly trap of eat what you like, and fill-up the hole
with whatever the world puts in front of you, health-be-gone, never given a thought for so many years -
and it began to manifest itself, even at a very young age....oh yes, and oh how we loved those cigs.....
we thought they just made everything all right and calmed our nerves and made the world a better place...
we were owned, bought, and sold all at once, children born and bred for this wicked world....
Spiritual perfection has a high price, as long as we have to live inside of these suit-cases and carry them
with us to the door of eternity....
we must respect, nurture, and guard our gifts, else our power and God-given-authority will become
compromised and the world's diseases will destroy our hopes and dreams before they have a chance
to be born....
ECC.7:17.
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
1COR.6:19.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?