- Whole food is the most important. In my own opinion, whole foods present the most unknown factors that we know are good for us. It has all the good ingredients, plus the supplement's and all wrapped up into, what I hope, is a tasty shell. Spinach is wonderful for you.
- Supplements: supplements are helpful, but how many? Should I take calcium? I'm actually osteoporotic, but I have no idea if I should be taking calcium? Generally, I thought I'd take it with vitamin D and magnesium, but now I'm hearing different things. Supplements are helpful and necessary in our nutrient starved diet, but we should be skeptical as to the motivations of the companies that are selling them and which ones we actually need.
- Medicine: for all too long, I have relied on medicine as a last resort, which is smart. The problem, I've also relied on it as by first resort with all my other first resorts? I actually have. I would take supplements like crazy, eat well, but not all the time, and then sat down pills. Is there some way I can handle my spasms, my nerve pain, my depression, cholesterol, without medicine? It seems so with a few of those.
learning from her that this is the priority, helped me greatly. the Daniel plan has not helped me lose any weight yet, as far as I can tell, my nerve pain is not gone and my spasms run amok. However, I am reporting feeling better, secure, more happy… Happy? I cannot believe I'm saying that one, given might radical mood swings, depression, anger and the fact that I'm stuck in bed – exasperating all of it. I've love to blame my condition for many aspects of my life, but I am realizing this: I make bad decisions. I make them often; as I get older, hopefully, the blinders will slowly peel away and I would think more like God. I wrote to a friend today and said this regarding his own troubles:
- It's unfortunate that the earlier mistakes we make in life affect us, at times, LATER in life. I am now realizing in spades, my bad choices with food, my condition, my job choices, whether I worked hard or not, are all having a profound effect on everything going on currently with my life. I am bedridden now and have few options of healing. You know how you just use up those lifelines? Before you know it, though the phrase is more accurately stated "before you are WILLING to know it", you've ran out of those lifelines; you have used them up and now the hour is late. I'm feeling ALL of the effects of these years of bad choices. I've always known that God "turns up the heat" on people when they're making bad choices, but now, I know he turns it up slowly. He is full of grace, turning up the heat slowly to give us a chance to live life by our own decisions. As with Israel, the best example of his relationship with humanity, it was not immediately that he punished them, but after years of disservice. CS Lewis said through Screwtape, in the book I told you about, "The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” It's amazing how fast time goes, but you don't notice it while you are in the moment. While you are making your mistakes about whether that mistake be an extra shot of rum or, in my case, staying longer on the videogame and choosing ice cream over an Apple – the consequences come slowly.
- But I fret not! God also likes to see that we turn back to him. He moves us to realize this fact of life and that we are ready to trust him completely. When we hear the still small voice, that whisper in our ears advising us on our contemplations, maybe NOW we will think to listen. I will continue to keep your daughter in prayer. Life really is about his glory and his desire to give us OUR desires, at least what is true in our hearts. [excerpt deleted]
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