Musings

The boys and I just finished a good hour of hard work, unloading horse manure from the pickup in the beautiful sunshine and cool spring air. I spread out some of it.

The girls played in the sun on their scooter and bicycle, trying out tricks.

Baby Victor toddled around the backyard, fussing at the cold mud on his feet and hands and the sun in his eyes.

When we were almost done, Victor was cleaned up and I sat on the walk out front in the dappled sunlight under the tree and nursed him. Then we sat and watched the boys finish, and the girls play.

Now, John is preparing his game for game-time, while Jeffrey reads fairy tales to the girls and Victor naps in my lap. He has a cold, poor boy, and has slept a lot the last 2 days. I would put him down and go do something else, but I have found that he sleeps better and longer if I hold him. So I am enjoying the time when he is little to cuddle him and continue my health education via a library book on the gut. It is very interesting.

Something I have been noticing lately is the more I get outside, get exercise, and eat right, the less I desire to be online or being lazy.

This is the thing I struggle with. I've talked about it before, i think, some.
I feel like I am addicted to facebook, social media in general, addicted to the overload of information.
The stimulus of information pouring in, is a high. Well, maybe not the information itself, but the act of scrolling through in hopes of something new to find out. Many times, I get on and there's not much new because I've been on all day.

I'm tired of wasting my time. So, now I am taking action. I look at my phone less. It is usually placed on the counter in the kitchen. In the morning, I check emails, bank account, work on bills etc, look at facebook fo a few minutes while waiting for my tea. (This was written before I started my March facebook fast.)

Then I leave it alone, hopefully for a long time.

Having stuff to do outside and things that are busy, like cleaning or decluttering helps too. I am sick and tired of being sick, tired, and lazy. So I'm laying things on the altar of the sanctuary.

1. Sugar
2. Facebook
3. Wheat products (I eat too much, and its causing inflammation)
4. Dairy
5. Laziness

I'm getting off my butt and doing stuff.

Exercising while brewing tea. Working in the garden, to dig it up. Weeding the yard. Cleaning the kitchen.

The more I do the necessary things and spend time with my kids, the less I desire the unnecessary and the bad, both.

Improving Health update

The last half of January I finished a six week challenge involving the sanctuary and weight loss. I think I mentioned it in a previous blog post.

Anyway, I didn't lose a lot of weight, but I learned a lot about myself and some things I need to give God more. Like overeating. I tend to mindlessly eat while doing other things, and then I eat too much. I am setting up my kids for failure in this area as well, by my example.

I also learned that certain foods really do make difference in my weight, such as processed foods versus unprocessed. And sweets and juice are all very high in calories.

The first 10 days of this month, my church and I did a Daniel fast challenge. We committed to eating healthier and getting more exercise. In general, a healthier lifestyle. More plants, no meat, that kind of thing. Some of us gave up junk food, and sugar. 
One of the things I gave up, as mentioned, or tried to, was sugar. I also did a juice fast for 2 days and learned that when I really want to, I can feel good by giving up those things that hurt me.

I figured out that wheat products, at least refined ones, like bread and pasta, are what are my main sources of inflammation. So, I am committing today, to continue laying sugar and wheat on the altar. Turning from those negative thoughts of past failure, and focusing on God, I want to keep my sights on His Sanctuary plan for health and improve my spiritual and physical health through His strength and power.

I hope you will join me in continuing this upward journey toward health!

May God bless all who read.

Thoughts on events

So, its been awhile since I posted due to being out of town on vacation and then trying to get back into the swing of things after we got back.

I was just thinking, maybe its time to switch things up a little. I have seen a lot of things posted on the web lately about stuff going on, much of it health related, and it is becoming more and more clear to me that we are getting down to the last few seconds of earth's history. I know there will be a few people who read this who won't believe me, or will just think I'm regurgitating something I've been taught, but its not.

The Bible is very clear as to what is going to happen right before Jesus comes and there is too much evidence to not believe that it is being fulfilled right before our eyes.

Just in the last week or so, there have been multiple strong earthquakes per day all over the world. Much of Australia was burning for quite awhile, and now in the midst of Jamaica and Mexico being hit with massive earthquakes, there is an infectious disease making its way out of China.
Many people have died, and there is a great fear that it will kill many people all over the world before it stops. I don't want to say that it won't, because it most likely will. But, much of what we read in the news is exaggerated and made to seem more than it is, for the very reason that the Devil has an agenda. There will be many people who die, as do every year from many other infectious diseases. And many people will be scared that they are going to die, too.

I don't want to get into what many call conspiracy theories, some of which basically say that the government has orchestrated this virus so they can push for a drug or vaccine, which may be true.  Suffice it to say, Satan has an agenda, and he has his puppets that do what he wants, to bring as many people as possible onto his side through fear and pain and lies.

And because as a race we have chosen to follow the desires of our own flesh, rather than the desires that God has for us, sin is taking over the world, and God's Spirit is being removed from holding back the evil, allowing those who wish to live apart from God to their own desires.

The only way to escape this world, and the sin that is consuming it, is to follow God's plan, to choose to be on His side. God has given us an escape and promised that if we take Him at His Word, He will remove sin from us, and take us through this time of trouble, and whatever happens to us in this world, we will come through to see Him come in the clouds of heaven to take us home with Him.

Whether we die now, or stay alive all the way to the end, we will be saved by God's grace to walk the streets of gold, and see Him destroy this old world and everything in it, to recreate it anew where sin will not exist and where disease and death will not hurt us.

I don't want to make this too long, but I just have to include another thought. God has a hand in everything, and nothing happens without His permission. Even the leaders put in place over our countries and churches are there for a reason. I saw a speech given by a leader recently where they were talking about making peace with another country's leader and how much more peaceful it was going to be. My thought, during this speech was a verse. 1 Thessalonians 5:3  "For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape."

Jesus is coming soon! Please, be sure you have accepted Him and are on His side! He will keep you through everything ahead!