Proverbs 3:8 · World English Bible
Proverbs 3:8 Meaning It Will Be Health to Your Body
It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
What does Proverbs 3:8 mean?
When a mind lays down its own frightened judgment and lets love look instead, the whole of it grows well, for sickness is only guilt worn inward and healing is guilt released. What is promised reaches the deepest and most hidden places, where the ego stores its oldest fears out of sight.
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When a mind lays down its own frightened judgment and lets love look instead, the whole of it grows well, for sickness is only guilt worn inward and healing is guilt released. What is promised reaches the deepest and most hidden places, where the ego stores its oldest fears out of sight.
The body is not the point, though it is the image chosen here. The navel and the bones stand for the innermost life of the mind, its very frame and origin, and to make them whole is to let the correction reach all the way down, so nothing frightened is left holding the self together.
Navel: the innermost, hidden center of the self, the deep place where the mind keeps its oldest fear out of sight Bones: the very frame of the self, the inward structure a mind believes holds it together and that love makes whole
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Live Proverbs 3:8 today
- Find the place where you are holding tension right now, jaw, shoulders, stomach, and as you let it go, let go of whatever you have been quietly blaming yourself for too.
- Tell one person something you have been carrying with a little shame around it. Watch how ordinary it becomes once it is out loud.
- When the old regret surfaces mid-commute or mid-shower, do not argue with it or replay it. Just say that is finished, and go back to what is in front of you.
What have you been punishing yourself for long after everyone else moved on?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism
The first arrow is the pain itself. The second is the story you tell about it, and that one you fire at yourself.
Taoism
Unclench and the body remembers how to be well. Most of the ache was the gripping.
Sufism · Rumi
The wound is where the light reaches in. Nothing in you needs hiding for the healing to begin.
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