Helping Your Teens Prioritize, Not Idolize, Health
Only God fully understands what true health looks like. He uniquely created every person—including your teen.
When we nourish our inner person with God’s Word, the Holy Spirit changes the way we think about and use our bodies.
Only God fully understands what true health looks like. He uniquely created every person—including your teen.
I pray God will fill you with the grace to understand how beloved you are and how beautifully he created you. That knowing how he made you, sees you, delights in you, and rescued you will carry you through life and all of its ups and downs. I pray you’ll remember the truth about your heart and your body, and as you do, that you’ll be thankful.
The solution to the hungering for more can only be found in the one who was perfect for us. Everything else is fleeting, a golden calf that instead of giving us what we think it can, ends up controlling us.
Walking alongside a teenager with an eating disorder is an opportunity to get involved in a difficult and messy situation that, through God’s grace, has the potential to become a beautiful story of redemption.
In the places where our adolescents are given a narrow or shallow definition of an acceptable body, Jesus offers a message that is wider and deeper.
Sleep is an act of faith because we are actively accepting our humanity and putting at the foot of the cross all the aspects of life that cause us the greatest anxiety.