AN EPIDEMIC OF VALUELESS FOOD

 It is all there! Forethought from God, our Creator to us.

 "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Genesis 2:9.

Whole food. When you create your meals with food God created to benefit your body from the beginning, your whole body is well fed. 

My daughter in law asked me recently, "Is whole food anti-inflammatory?" “Yes.” My reply was an immediate heartfelt, even emotional answer to her query. The food created for humanity to eat…and it is highlighted in the Bible.

You are wise, Roxy. There is an epidemic of nutritionally damaged food in our culture. Processed, devitalized, devalued, bioengineered. It is making us sick and fat.

When you decide to treat your body as a “temple of the Holy Spirit” and very carefully eat healthy food, you will be satisfied with taste, how you feel and your health projection!

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." I Corinthians 6:19,20.

THE BREAD QUESTION

 

IT IS SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL

FOR HEART AND HEALTH

Growing up, my father (who did not eat white flour, white sugar, or margarine) knew there was something wrong with the food culture in America. To prove his view to his children, he would sit on a loaf of white bread; it went “flat as a pancake.” My mother stopped buying white bread when we were young.

She didn’t stop there. It is my mother’s legacy. She began making whole wheat bread. Before finding the latest news on health was convenient, she knew instinctively: whole grains made sense.

Since my father and mother began the emphasis on eating healthy food, it was natural for their eight children to know there is a difference between processed and whole food.

It is not just for my husband and me now. Our son and daughter in law asked me to show them how to make bread, then again brought it up, “When we come over are we going to make bread?” Below is a simple recipe for making whole wheat bread.

The naturally harvested wheat includes the bran, endosperm and germ. An unwitting consumer is denied the benefit of whole grain when it is taken apart and sold separately.

If the endosperm is processed (bleached white), then made into bread, it is minus the powerful nutrition found in the whole grain. The bread made from it becomes the airy white loaf most often sold in grocery stores at home and the world over. The white flour is eye appealing and has a much longer shelf life. The bran and germ are gone from the grain and sold separately.

This “allenpuff” which my father called it, could be one major reason for health problems. When a lifetime of devitalized bread with no heart strengthening power from protein, and minerals is our regular diet we suffer. Often the food industry separates the most nutritious parts and sells them separately.

Bread bleached and degermed are not health building. Like fast food available everywhere, it is a trap. Easy, quick, cheap, habit forming, addictive. Fad diets confuse and frustrate us and work against hope for good health. When a better Way is right in front of you, take it! “Who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.” Psalm 103:5

The combination of “fine flour, oil and honey” are included in Scripture all the way through. Until in the New Testament we see Jesus as the perfect picture of healthful bread. “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 

"I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:51.

MAKE HEALTH A HOBBY

It can be relevant at any time: dinner at a restaurant, potluck at Church, visiting a new, well-advertised Fast-Food establishment. And then you see the tell-tale signs of empty calories, deep fried crunchy, thick crust, crisp chicken, bleached rolls, or bread.

It is all around, everywhere, in every restaurant. By this time, (after years of quandary and struggle) what comes immediately to my mind:” Pass it up.” Plan. Eat for your body: it thrives on whole, healthy food. "Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's." Psalm 103:5.

A deep, deep diversion from healthy food is imbedded into our culture. Hidden in the salad dressings are seed oils, highly processed that clog arteries. White sugar and corn syrup. Natural flavor: a lie. Chemicals that enhance flavor. Addictive additives that are purposeful.

America, come to your senses. Healthy food is simple: whole food, whole grains, vegetables, fruit grown from fertile soil and made edible with knowledge and wisdom.

A surprise waited for me when I began to research food mentioned in the Bible. It was a stunning revelation that when food is mentioned, it often gives instruction about your spirit and soul in a figurative sense right within the context. The assumption when food is part of a passage in Scripture, is that this is good for your body. It is healthy. "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness." Isaiah 55:2. (Old English).

  

TIME TO PRAY, AMERICA

 

“This Is a Christian Nation” In 1892, the United States Supreme Court ruled, "This is a Christian Nation." The ruling, issued by Associate Justice David Brewer, has never been legally disputed or overturned."

I BELIEVE that a government "Of the People, By the People and For the People" is a special privilege given to us by our Creator as Citizens of the United States of America. That precludes that knowledgeable and informed members of our Nation participate to protect and preserve it.   The Constitution, and Bill of Rights are uncommon wisdom and gifts to us.

This privileged land is responsible to cherish and hold to our Christian heritage. Like the History in the Bible, and the Nation of Israel, The United States of America is built upon the principles in Scripture. The history in the Bible (the true and dependable ancient history...beginning in Genesis 1 - 11) tells the story of a Nation blessed by Almighty God, Creator of the Heavens and Earth. 

Like them, we are responsible to hold to His truth and mercy.

They forsook God...the Bible tells that sad story. It's time to pray, America! Godlessness leads to hatred, violence and destruction. America is in trouble. But there is hope: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14.

Our only hope: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:16-18. 

BEGINNING 2026 WITH A PLAN

As we began the New Year, 2026 this morning, My husband, Eric and I read the most hope filled Book anyone can produce. We read the Bible together ... our plan continues every morning before breakfast. Sometimes we read an Old English, King James Version, sometimes other translations we trust.

"He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." Psalm 23:3.

"And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed." Deuteronomy 31:8.

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: (seize, possess) but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13,14. 

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." Psalm 23:6.

We believe this: "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." Psalm 16:11.

If you also believe, the LORD through the gift of the Holy Spirit within you will do just as He has promised. "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Romans 10:9.

It is why God the Father sent His Son, Jesus to take on the form of those He created in His own image: you and me. (Romans 3:23) "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God..." Jesus died for us!

Since I was born into a family of Bible readers, at five years of age I began taking it seriously. The Bible is more powerful and pungent in my heart, mind, and soul now than ever. 

Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. 

MAKE GOOD HEALTH YOUR GOAL

 

Dear Friends, Interest in good food leading to good health with many people, here is a Repost that may challenge you as Scripture has done for my husband and me...

 It may take a turn around, but health is beauty. Make your health a goal.

The most powerful king in the world, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded a diet for four captured Jewish boys. "And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank..." Daniel 1:5. But Daniel “purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat…” It took ten days of healthy food, and Daniel and his three friends were outstanding in their appearance.

Daniel and his friends were trained in all matters of wisdom and understanding that Babylon had to offer, but the food was an issue. Daniel requested of the Prince, "Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, (something sown, a vegetable) and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer (beautiful, best) and fatter (plump, firm) in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse." (Daniel 1:12-16).

Just do it. (The Bible does include beef, lamb and other “clean” food as in the sacrifices in the Law), Daniel here seems to have limited his food to vegetables and water. You have one life and getting from Scripture the wisdom to live it well is more than worth the effort. Settling into a warm and active relationship with Jesus through Scripture will change everything, beginning now. Your future will be changed.

WHY SHEPHERDS!

 “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keep watch over their flock by night…” And an Angel appeared to them. And the glory of the LORD shone all around them! And then a multitude of “the Heavenly Host”  “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. “ Luke 2

As I contemplated the amazing glory of the LORD shinning all about the lowly shepherds, the reason for first appearing to them when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, made my mind go to my favorite Psalm lately: “The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want (I will not lack what I need). Psalm 23.

The shepherds watch care for their sheep in the field, is just how our Good Shepherd describes His care for his children.  “He leads me beside the still waters…” His peace is near. “He restores my soul…” We may have His forgiveness and love and assurance of eternal life with Him.

“He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” And there is little regret.

We may “walk through the valley of the shadow of death,” but no fear; He is with me.

All the rest of my life is in the care of the Good Shepherd. “Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”

Jesus: “Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 

The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.” John 10:7-11 

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Romans 10:9.

“…and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”  

Psalm 23:6 “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”

Isn’t it beautiful. The Son of God, Jesus will be your Good Shepherd. He gave His life on the cross and rose from the dead … for you and for me.