Maintaining Your Body
Our annual physical ensures our body is in peak operating order. Our Doctor may say we have to take blood pressure pills to maintain our blood pressure or that we should lose some weight to prevent people with diabetes down the road. We must exercise our body as a body at rest stays at rest and goes downhill quickly. We should be very social as it has been proven that people that socialize live much longer than those that do not. We should have our teeth cleaned twice a year to prevent tooth decay and having to wear dentures in our old age. We need our annual exams to prevent cancer or catch it early before it spreads and is not treatable. We should keep our minds as active as possible by reading, working on crossword puzzles, putting puzzles together, and having a hobby. I like to use a treadmill in the winter months with music playing in the background. In the warmer months, I weed whack, garden, mow my lawn, trim trees, and ride my e-bike. We maintain our pets’ bodies by feeding them top-quality food and annual Vet visits for their checkups and necessary shots.
Maintaining Your Soul
Maintaining your soul is very important. If you do not keep your soul, you do not maintain your body; without your soul, you have no body. God put breath in your body and gave you a mind to survive and function. If you lose your soul to the Devil, you have lost your connection to everlasting life. Have kind, caring, loving, joyful, peaceful, hopeful, and loyal thoughts. Do not go to bed angry at someone; be slow to anger. Put God above all others and strive to do God’s will on Earth. If you see your soul drifting in the wrong direction, ask God to help you get back on track again and stay on the right path, as that is the only path that leads to redemption and everlasting life. Glory be to God our heavenly Father.
Maintaining What You Own
If you do not maintain your home soon, you will not have one to live in. Maintaining a home takes a lot of time and energy. You may have to replace your windows, put on a new roof, install a new furnace put on new siding, have your home rewired, and much more. Maintaining a home is very expensive. Maintaining your vehicle involves oil changes, batteries, new tires, and sometimes something significant. Lawnmowers need oil changes, blades sharpened, and sometimes a complete overhaul. Outdoor buildings must be repainted, and rotten boards must be replaced. I stain my deck boards yearly with an oil stain since oil paints or stains last much longer. Water and other filters need to be replaced as they get dirty and cause damage to the device they are used on. Write a list of the top 10 things you want to fix at the beginning of the year and stick to the list so you do not have many repairs to complete all at once.
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