There is a book I knew about in my youth, but paid it no mind until I was 26 years old. And even then I opened it for the wrong reasons. But when I opened it I discovered a Handbook for life. I immediately was drawn to it. Many of my questions in life were answered. In my late twenties I found in it a path to spiritual life. And now, in my fifties I am finding in it a path to physical life also.

     There is a saying written about 3000 years ago, give or take a few hundred years, by God through a man named Solomon. He says, “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.”

     I’m sure he was talking about spiritual death, but there is also another way to take this saying. Having been given the richness of some knowledge on nutrition and natural healing( I said some), it tears my heart up being around those who are putting poisons, some call food, into their bodies that will surely lead them into an early grave. Now most people know that smoking leads to a sure agonizing death, if something else doesn’t get them first. But I believe most people don’t know much at all about nutrition, or about the poisons contained in processed foods including white sugars, white flours, artificial ingredients, colorings, American processed meat, fish, chicken and liquid meat (dairy).

     Just reading this book I discovered called “The Bible”; I found that there is so much on how we should take care of our bodies. Our Creator has shown us how and what to eat so that we can live healthy in mind, body and spirit to around 120 years. It’s amazing to me that so many don’t even have a clue. I didn’t have a clue until I found myself in danger of death with an incurable colon disease at the ripe old age of 42. There are verses and stories all throughout this collection of 66 books, we call “The Bible” that talk about what we should eat as fuel for these tents that our spirits live in.

     My wife Dorothy showed me something this morning that I never seen before. I’ve been reading this Bible for 27 years and I never saw it. It’s in the Book of Joshua Chapter 5, starting with verse 10. It says, “On the evening of the 14^th day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land; unleavened bread and some roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan.”

     God had fed these at least 1million people vegan manna for 40 years, and now they were eating produce. You notice it doesn’t say they were eating meat and dairy. We don’t need meat and dairy to survive or even flourish.

     Now before you say what I know some of you would like to say to me right now; I know some of you want to tell me that Jesus ate meat and fish. Well, He probably did. In fact I know He did when He was visiting Abram just before He destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah. Yes, he visited Abram before He was born to Mary.

     I know eating meat or dairy is not a sin. But, the meat and Dairy 2000 years ago was lean and truly organic with a very low fat content. People were not eating 21 meals of meat and dairy a week centering their meals on Mc Donald’s and a nice cut of prime rib from their favorite restaurant of death. There meals were centered on whole grains and brown rice. Meat was for company and feasts. They didn’t pull lamb chops out of the frig in the days of the great Roman Empire.

     Daniel, in the Old Testament and his friends had the greatest wisdom in the entire Empire of Babylon and they looked healthier and their countenance was greater than all the Kings men. What did they eat? They ate only vegetables and water. But some say “Where did they get their protein and calcium?” They got it from the same place the animals get it from; the “vegetables”.

     I am surrounded with family, friends, people I work around, and acquaintances who are literally dying of heart attacks, cancer and such. I want to get the word out that you don’t have to die from disease. You don’t have to even be sick. You can actually live a very healthy life being almost a kid until you die and go to Heaven and start over with a brand new body.

     I feel called in my spirit to spread this message to all who will listen (not everyone listens). Not lord over people. Not push people. Not tell people they aren’t allowed to eat meat. Diet is not a religion. Dorothy and I just want to share some commonsense, or should I say some common-nutrition-sense so some or even many might be spared from the pain of disease and an early death.

     I didn’t mean this to be a commercial, but if you care about others in your life, or if you need to learn more about nutrition and such, you might want to come to our monthly support group teaching meetings and/or our workshop.

                  Thanks for listening!!!!

Food For Thought!

     Do you know that if we Americans cut out only 10% of our meat intake, there would be enough left over food in this country alone to feed the entire starving world!

     12 lbs of grain will make:

          12 loaves of bread or

          54 bowls of cereal or

          1lb of ground beef…

SPECIAL:

     We're supposed to sell the SeaSilver at the retail price of $40 a jug. We are selling it on sale for $32. The 3 bottle box is $90. However, the best deal is ordering a case straight from the company using my sponsor # which is g10024778. The SeaSilver # is 1-800-299-8256. It comes out to $25 per bottle.

     On the path to finding health, we often come across a little gold nugget. One of them is "Distilled Water". This is water with all the impurities taken out. You can get this naturally in clean parts of the world through rainwater if there are no pollutants in it. This water over time will slowly clean out your arteries and veins of junk. Even your well water contains inorganic minerals, which the body cannot absorb. But they slowly accumulate in our arteries, veins, etc. Distilled water washes us clean. Our bodies do need minerals. These organic minerals are found in fruits and vegetables and we can absorb them. Paul Bragg, who started the first health food store in 1912, proved this out as he started drinking distilled water when he was a teenager. At the age of 95, he was tested at John Hopkins University and was found to have the arteries and veins of a 20 year old. Dorothy, the kids, and I started drinking only distilled water almost 9 years ago. If you want more info on how to get set up with a simple distiller, ask us.

     In April 1982, after years of experimenting with alcohol and drugs, and living life my way and for me, I realized that there must be a better way. Thanks to several people sharing the hope of Christ with me, I asked Jesus to forgive me and save my soul. At that point and now, the only difference between someone who doesn't know Christ and me, I believe, is I cried to Him for help and He rescued my soul from Hell. For most of the years since then, I was so happy that I was off drugs and alcohol and that my soul was saved. But, I think, like so many other Christians, I didn't take care of my body (which is the tent that God gave my spirit to live in) in other areas. What was the matter with me? It took an incurable disease to wake me up almost nine years ago. And even then it took me two more years before I actually started getting serious about changing my diet and lifestyle. I'm so happy when I see many of you serious about taking care of your body and you haven't even hit a wall---yet. Our Creator made these bodies like Ford made automobiles, to last a certain amount of time, if they run on the right fuel. He told us in Genesis 1:29 that our fuel or meat would be fruits and vegetables. He told Noah in Genesis 6:3 that our life's years would be 120. It's interesting that through investigating these last 8 plus years we have found so many who are or have been living proof of this.

     Some of you may be thinking that I sometimes repeat some parts from my past emails. There are and could be a few reasons for this. One is that I'm over 50 and my memory might not be the same as it used to be, or, if you're like me, we need to have things repeated from time to time. Did you ever notice that a typical sermon by a pastor tends to repeat? And also, there are more people every week added to our mailing list that are hearing this stuff for the first time.

     You know we’re having a lot of sales at the market and you know Laura is going to have some great organic goodies this week as usual. We’ll, I do have to mention she’ll be having Heart Shaped Carob Brownies in celebration of Valentines Day along with her other wraps and things.

    And before I go, Dorothy has some beautiful beeswax candles shaped in Roses and Hearts and such that you might want to get for that special someone, whether it is your Mother, you’re Lover, or your kid.

    Dorothy has Pure Essential Oil Perfumes you might want to get too and other stuff. Please, just come see us at the market. We’re “Honey House”.