Something struck me hard during class yesterday. It was something I had known for ages that I learned just now. You ever have that happen? Something just hits you in a new light? I knew it, but it struck me, I am an extravert. I actually really need to be around people. Like really. I need to be around people to be really happy. If I spend too much time alone, I’m just not at my best. It’s how God made me. So I need to get with it. I guess I’ve just been looking at it like, yea if I hang with people cool, but I never really put any effort into making it happen, I guess I need to. I need to function the way God made me. That means I need to be healthy and eat right, that means I need to get the right amount of sleep, that means lots of things that are often not considered very ‘spiritual.’ But they are, because it’s the way God made us, God wants us to live in the way he designed us to, that means I shouldn’t have sex with someone I just met, and it also means I shouldn’t fill my body with junk food, because I am living out of God’s intention for me. In the same way that my future marriage will suffer if I sleep around, my current and future relationships and tasks will suffer if I am living on not enough sleep every night, and functioning at less than full capacity. I need to be well all the way through, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. God doesn’t just say, “Your whole life can be screwed up as long as your spiritual side is strong.” That doesn’t even make sense. My spiritual side cannot function correctly if my other areas are holding me down. I am one person, God cares for, God died for, me as a whole, every part.