It’s a new year!

Millions will proclaim resolutions to lose 10, 20, thirty, forty, and more pounds in the first few weeks and months of 2024. Weight-losing enthusiasts will purchase exercise bikes, treadmills, hand and ankle weights, stomach crunches, waist slimming belts, and other devices to achieve their goals. New memberships at community gyms will explode. Google searches for various diets will challenge even AI.

Let’s give it up for the newfound zeal! Hear the roar, a better us in 2024!  

You know what they say: enthusiasm is contagious. Talking about weight loss and goal setting makes me want to get on the bandwagon!

Where is my latex waist cincher? I have some two-pound ankle and hand weights in my closet or somewhere.

Let’s beat this flab!

Sorry, I got carried away in the world of shapely possibilities.

I’m not making any 2024 weight loss resolutions; I have something else that’s more fulfilling in mind.

But I want to encourage everyone’s self-care efforts and wish them much success in staying the course to achieve their 2024 resolutions. Our physical health is a top priority. Strong bodies and bones need proper nourishment and continuous care.

Contrary to popular belief, the right foods and proper exercise are not the only solutions to good health.

What is my noncycling, uncinching, weight-free, habit-forming self-care for 2024?

More Love in 2024!

Everyone can take part in being more loving in 2024, which creates a healthier body and a gracious you.

How does love translate to a healthier body?

Proverbs 16:24 (KJV) says, “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”

As with candy, cakes, pies, and other sweets, we can have a sweet tooth for love; it’s calorie-free without any weight gain.

Most would agree that everyone wants and deserves to be spoken to in a loving manner.

I’m not talking about superficial mumbo jumbo, flattery, or self-serving words but words of substance and meat for a healthy body and beautiful soul. It’s all about words of value and worth that bridge communication gaps and support the weak, downtrodden, and others.

Needful truths and Godly words that uplift others are pleasant words.

In Psalm 19:10, Solomon said, God’s word is “More to be desired …than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”

God’s love creates pleasant words that Christians can share, bless, comfort, encourage, and support

others.

We all need encouragement, and knowing how to encourage others with Godly, pleasant, or Christian words is advantageous.

Pleasant words are void of self-interest, strife, or envy.

“Turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight; keep them within your heart, for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.” Proverbs 4:20-22

If we truly desire to speak pleasant words that are sweet as a honeycomb, we must pray like King David, “Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.” Psalm 141:3

Let’s put our best foot forward, use pleasant words, and be more loving in 2024. Believe it or not, our bones and physical and spiritual health depend on it.

Here’s to a sweet soul, good health, and bones.

If you fall off the treadmill of pleasant words, apologize, and get back on.

Happy New Year!

Be well.