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    Fully Alive: Learning to Flourish--Mind, Body & Spirit
    Fully Alive: Learning to Flourish--Mind, Body & Spirit
    Fully Alive: Learning to Flourish--Mind, Body & Spirit
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    Fully Alive: Learning to Flourish--Mind, Body & Spirit

    By Susie Larson

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    In this eye-opening book, Susie Larson shows how intertwined our emotional, spiritual, and physical health are. Spiritual difficulties can have physical consequences, and physical illnesses can have emotional and even spiritual ramifications. So in order for true healing to occur, it must happen holistically--mind, body, and spirit.

    Providing a fresh vision of what a flourishing life is, Susie shares practical, biblical ways to
    · replace defeating thoughts with redemptive ones
    · overcome stress and embrace God's peace
    · deal with the "I can'ts" embedded in our souls
    · trade unhealthy habits for new life-giving practices

    We cannot keep ignoring the mental and/or emotional symptoms that are trying to get our attention. Fully Alive is an uplifting guide for anyone who longs to know the health, freedom, and wholeness that Jesus wants for us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781493415991
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    Susie Larson

    Susie Larson is a bestselling author, national speaker, and host of the popular radio show Susie Larson Live. Whether behind a desk or behind a mic, Susie lives out her passion to see people everywhere awakened to the depth of God's love, the value of their soul, and the height of their calling in Christ Jesus. A two-time finalist for the prestigious John C. Maxwell Transformational Leadership Award, Susie is the author of over 20 books and devotionals, and her Daily Blessings reach over half a million people each week on social media. Her radio show is heard daily on the Faith Radio Network, as well as around the world through her podcast, which has more than 3.5 million downloads. A popular media guest and guest host, Susie has frequently appeared on shows like Focus on the Family, Life Today, and Family Life Today. In addition to her work and ministry, Susie loves to laugh and relax with her family. She and her husband, Kevin, have been married since 1985. Together they have three wonderful (and hilarious) sons, three beautiful daughters-in-law, a growing bunch of delightful grandchildren, and one adorable pit bull named Memphis.

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      Fully Alive - Susie Larson

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      He Restores

      Believe It

      Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.

      Psalm 51:12

      If we will listen with kindness and compassion to our own souls, we will hear the echoes of a hope so precious we can barely put words to it, a wild hope we can hardly bear to embrace. God put it there. He also breathed the corresponding promise into the earth; it is the whisper that keeps coming to us in moments of golden goodness. But of course. God has planted eternity in the human heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The secret to your unhappiness and the answer to the agony of the earth are one and the same—we are longing for the kingdom of God. We are aching for the restoration of all things.1

      Our youngest son, Jordan, used to live on his tippy toes. He walked on his toes, ran fast on his toes, and played football on his toes. He was born with tight heel cords, tight gastrocs (calf muscles), and tight hamstrings. Picture him on the examination table at the doctor’s office. When the doctor asked Jordan to straighten his leg, Jordan would extend his leg only to have his upper body drop backwards at an angle. He was so tight that he couldn’t sit up straight and extend his leg out straight at the same time. His condition made him a fast runner but would eventually present alignment problems if we didn’t deal with it during his younger years.

      We helped him stretch twice a day. We reminded him constantly to drop his heels and try to walk on his feet. We massaged the back of his legs and his lower back. Our efforts proved insufficient, and Jordan eventually needed serial casting on each leg. They’d flex his foot a bit and then cast it for weeks at a time. He went through three casts on each leg.

      Doctors told us that Jordan would deal with consistent back, hip, and joint pain if he didn’t stretch as a way of life. We stretched him as often as we could. But, if you’ve read any of my past books or heard me speak, you know that Jordan still suffered a serious back injury in high school while playing football. Turns out, the less flexible we are, the greater the risk of injury. (I’d say this is true in life too.)

      The ref blew the whistle. The play was over. Still, a player on the opposing team clipped Jordan hard when he wasn’t ready for it, and the rest is history. Doctors told us it was one of the worst disc herniations they’d seen.

      At one point the doctor told me that the disc blowout severely compressed three sets of nerves in Jordan’s spine and, as a result, he could lose control of his bowels at any time. We were heartbroken for him. We heard multiple stories of adult men who ended up disabled from this same injury. This was a nightmare come true for our dear son.

      But one day I’d heard two stories of miraculous healings from this exact injury and something rose up within me. Faith, I suppose! I shared the news with Jordan. Son, you know I’ve struggled most of my adult life with health issues, and God hasn’t miraculously healed me. My recovery has been more of a process. But even so, I believe that He still works miracles today. In the past twenty-four hours, I’ve heard two stories of how God miraculously healed two men with your same injury. What if we go out on a limb, err on the side of faith, and ask God for a miracle for you? Let’s just see what God might do. Are you with me?

      Surprisingly, my dear, reserved son, who’d grown quite depressed from the daily pain and limitations, nodded yes, he was up for it. It’s such a beautiful story, I wish I had the space to tell it again here, but suffice to say, one night at youth group, a fellow student prayed for him, and he was instantly healed. A medical miracle.

      So few receive this kind of miracle, you’d think this would have changed Jordan’s life forever. And it did—physically. Yet he still wandered from the faith after high school. Then the storms hit and God showed him the way home. He was emotionally beat up, bruised, and brokenhearted. And his whole body ached. Especially his back and his hips. In his vulnerable state, he started to doubt that he’d really received a miracle all those years ago.

      I grabbed Jordan by the shoulders, stared him straight in the eyes, and said, "Son, there’s no disputing what happened to you back then. One day you could barely move, and the next, you were sprinting and lifting weights. God healed you. But do you remember what the doctors told you when you were young? You need to stretch. Jesus will tend to those wounds in your heart, but the physical stuff? I think it’s a stewardship issue. You have to do that. No one can do it for

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