Fruit

Today's blog is all about fruit: a great topic for a blog about physical and spiritual wellness.

Let's start with fruit as a food group and state the obvious: we should all be eating a lot more than we are. Fruits have so many health benefits that it would be hard to list them all: vitamins and nutrients, antioxidants, fiber, all of which lead to healthier weight and a decreased risk of a myriad of diseases. Apples, blueberries and strawberries are on nearly every doctor's list I check for foods that are essential to healthy diet. And fruit is a great alternative to feeding our sweet tooth, as opposed to the other sugars we reach for. Set a goal for how many servings of fruit you want to have in your daily diet, then be firm. A 2,000-calorie diet would call for about two to three cups of fruit per day, if that helps.

My other fruit comment this morning is about Biblical fruit:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law." --Galatians 5:22-23

That's quite a list, and it makes me stop to ask if those things are what people see out of me. After all, if my heart is guided by the Spirit, then my life will bear the fruit of those qualities. My prayer for today is that my life today would be evidence of a life lived in the Spirit for those who encounter me.

And one last fruit comment: if you enjoy blogs, let me recommend marksdailyapple.com by Mark Sisson, a guy who has written books and blogs daily about primal living (Google that if you're not sure what that is). He is very interesting to read for someone who wants to pursue a life of healthier consumption and movement.

Today's challenge: Eat your fruit today, and let the Spirit fill your heart so that you may bear fruit to those around you.