{"id":130,"date":"2009-03-09T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/comments-of-the-week-hope-bo.html"},"modified":"2009-03-09T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T09:23:33","slug":"comments-of-the-week-hope-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/comments-of-the-week-hope-bo.html","title":{"rendered":"Comments of the Week &#8211; Hope, Body and Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a wonderful week, although difficult in many ways, wonderful here as so many people are in our community, and posting really inspiring, encouraging words.&nbsp; Two of the most commented upon had to do with troubled times, fear, anxiety, and ways to keep hope alive: by the grace of God and with help from our friends (like all of us here).<\/p>\n<p>Please take a look at my articles and the terrific comments that folks wrote, and share them with your friends, family and co-workers.&nbsp; There were two this week that seemed to ring some bells and strike a few chords!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/recipe-for-hope.html\">RECIPE FOR HOPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/03\/starting-the-day-with-fear-and.html\">STARTING THE DAY WITH FEAR AND ANXIETY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to my &#8220;Recipe for Hope,&#8221; Rosie wrote, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My heart goes out to all of you who are suffering. I will say prayers for you this afternoon. No matter what, God will see us through. I have some small problems of my own, but with God&#8217;s help and the posts here, I have courage to face what lies ahead. Peace to all of you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I pray for you too Rosie, and everyone because we are all sufferring, and deeply appreciate the love and care that comes through your words.<\/p>\n<p>In my posting on &#8220;Starting the Day with Fear and Anxiety,&#8221; William Norris (I sure like that last name!) wrote a very sensible method for awakening, which I also do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I try to limit coffee: to actually wake up, I do mild exercise and prayer that is not conventional, you would say improvised.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we do not need news people droning on over the same things that we&#8217;ve gone to bed with. But moving the soul and body is the best way that I know of.<\/p>\n<p>Try it.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God bless you William, too.&nbsp; Since I wrote that article last week, with God&#8217;s help I have been having only one cup of coffee a day.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a big change.&nbsp; I feel a lot better.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve also not been watching news.&nbsp; I too start my day with physical movement, prayer, and silent meditation.&nbsp; My wife still likes news but she&#8217;s been putting on comedy news shows.&nbsp; So I start with &#8220;body and soul&#8221; and then laugh my way into the day.&nbsp; Love it!<\/p>\n<p>Please keep coming back.&nbsp; Bookmark, favorite, subscribe and RSS.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a wonderful week, although difficult in many ways, wonderful here as so many people are in our community, and posting really inspiring, encouraging words.&nbsp; Two of the most commented upon had to do with troubled times, fear, anxiety, and ways to keep hope alive: by the grace of God and with help&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,10,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-health","category-joy","category-lifestyles","category-prayers","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Comments of the Week - Hope, Body and Soul - Dr. Norris J. 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