One Page at a Time: Spiritual Well-Being

Let's look at well-being full in the face.

If physical well-being is the pendulum keeping time, emotional and mental well-beings are the hands doing the work. They encompass the face--the spiritual well-being.

Spiritual well-being is the outer foundation over the functioning innards. Sometimes its features are bold and obvious. Sometimes it is blank and almost nondescript. Sometimes it focuses on color. Sometimes it reveals a window, showing the inner workings. Either way, the face reveals whether time is being well-kept, whether the work is being done too fast or too slow.

The problem with spiritual well-being is that it doesn't run the way our world does. We expect everything to be on demand, energized, and technologically savvy. Yet, spiritual well-being begins with consistent turning, a steady swinging, a setting of the hands.

The key is in the daily wind.

My grandparents had an old farm clock. It is the one I used as a model in my book, The Forget-Me-Nots. My grandfather wound that clock every day. This habit was as consistent as their daily prayer time together in the morning and in the evening after their meals. It was as constant as their personal devotional times when they set their own hands to His work. This was their daily function every day--as long as physically, emotionally, and mentally possible--while they lived.

And so it is with me. My daily spiritual wind-up might appear a bit different from theirs, but the purpose is the same. If I don't remain consistent in this routine, I get run down, can't keep up, and eventually stop in the other areas of well-being in my life.

We often think the key to well-being is our physical health. We spend thousands even millions of dollars on counseling and education. Yet, those things mean nothing if our spiritual faces fail to reflect our divine purpose.

Pick up the key. Add a daily wind. Maintain that consistent turning, that steady swing, the setting of the hands one manual-page at a time.