By Michaela Gordoni
Candace Cameron Bure just dove into 1 Corinthians 6:19.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,” the verse reads.
“I use that verse in the context of my body is a holy temple; why would I feed it garbage?” Bure said in a recent episode of her podcast. “Why would I not eat good foods for me? Why don’t I exercise?”
She explained that it took a while for her to make the connection that the body is a temple because the Holy Spirit dwells in it.
“Because I need to keep my body strong and fit and healthy because my body is a body of the temple,” the Teddy Bear Award® winner continued. “I never had the connection at those ages that the Holy Spirit dwells inside of me. Like that’s the temple part…but it was such a thin definition for me of what the temple was even within my Christian walk.”
“…I never thought about it that way! He dwells in us❤️ AMEN🙌” one person commented on a clip of the podcast.
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“I did not know that, I, too, thought we were just talking about my actual body. 💚💚” another person said.
Bure’s recent podcast theme has been about bodies, which she’s been very vocal about recently.
She recently shared that the trend these days is to be skinny, just like in the ’90s.
“It can be scary,” the Great American Family actress said of the trend, “although I feel like this younger generation has already had so much more body positivity that I hope they understand that it’s a trend. I think of my daughter, and she just doesn’t have the same viewpoint of body image that I did growing up, and especially as a child of the ‘80s and ’90s.”
“Yet my daughter and her friends and all of that have way less, they don’t think about bodies like that,” she continued. “So I hope that they do understand that it’s a trend. But yeah, it does freak me out.”
“It makes me sad to see everyone suddenly becoming skinny because I think it’s very triggering for a lot of people our age that grew up in the ‘80s and ’90s,” she said. “It was the ‘Kate Moss era’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.’”
Bure shared that her struggle with body image started in the 5th or 6th grade, and she became a bulimic.
As an adult, she had a dream of how Balaam mistreated his donkey in the Book of Numbers, chapter 22. She realized she treated her body like Balaam treated his donkey.
“God just vividly showed me that I’ve been like Balaam,” she said while getting teary-eyed.
“I’ve whipped my body. I’ve spoken to it so harshly,” she said, in tears. “So mean. ‘What are you doing?’”
“’Why do you look this way? Why are you fat? Why can’t you be like every other body?’” she said.
“And then God allowed my body to speak back,” she said. “And my body said back to me, ‘Have I not been the body that’s carried you all the days of your life? Am I not your legs that allow you to walk? Am I not your arms that allow you to pick up and feed yourself?”
Today, Bure says she is “grateful” to realize that her body is a beautiful thing that God designed — and a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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