Spiritual Thoughts from Massage School

Before I took any Anatomy and Physiology classes I knew that our bodies are able to function because of God's divine hand. After I started taking Anatomy and Physiology everything has just confirmed that more solidly in my head. I do not understand how anyone could look at the way our bodies work and not understand that there is at least some kind of divine power behind all this. I remember one teacher I had at the community college who really went into different birth defects that may arise and I gained even more understanding of what a miracle it is each time a baby comes out of their mother's womb with little to no complications or even alive in the first place.

  This last weekend I had to go to a weekend class at my school and as part of that class we practiced clinical work on each other. Most people only think about relaxation massages but Massage Therapist can do quite a bit to help in the healing process from things like muscle sprains, tendenitis, affects from a car accident and more. Anyways I was talking with one of my classmates about how some of the techniques that we do in order to help with these can be painful. This got me thinking about repentance, and I thought about this before in some other forms but this time I thought about it in comparison to massage. In relaxation massage we take care of everyday muscle tightness and we give a nudge to the body to do as it should. As we do those things that keep us spiritually strong we are nudging ourselves to be closer and closer to becoming as we should to return to our Father's presence. Then in clinical massage the body that is being worked on has varied quite far from it's optimal condition and to get it to how it was can take quite a bit of manipulation and it can be quite painful. This is the same when we need to repent enspecially if we have been varying for quite sometime from the path the He has established for us and it can be painful both emotionally and spiritually to return to the path to becoming more like him. In the end though it is all worth it to do what is needed to keep our physical, spiritual, and mental well being were they need to be so that we can press forward with all our heart, might, mind, and stregth to get to where we want to be both in this life and in the world to come.