My gut has been bad since I was 30 due to parasites then years of harsh drugs to rid myself of the parasites. I have tried everything to heal my gut including fasting, living on only juices, drugs, supplements, and anything anyone recommended. Nothing helped. I have continually struggled with diarrhea and pain. About a year and a half ago, I tried a low inflammatory diet that healed Jordan Rubin’s Crohn’s disease. Since I began that, I haven’t had diarrhea once. The pain greatly decreased after about three months of being on the diet. It begins to hurt if I try anything off of my diet or add a new supplement, so I have to eat carefully.

I make my healing soup once a week. It takes some time to make it. I have a mug full every morning and evening, as you see in the picture above. Every time my grandchildren are here, they ask if they can have some. I don’t want to give it to them since it’s so time consuming to make and I need it, but I decided to give them a little bit each time. They tell me it’s the best soup they’ve ever eaten! (Oh, how I love them!) It’s so good for them too.

Since I have been on this diet, I no longer get the colds or anything else that others get. I used to get everything far worse than everybody. I can sleep with my mouth closed for the first time in my life! I now have even more people in my life that have been healed of something by going on this low inflammatory diet, even some of my family. I am so thankful. Healing the gut is vital for good health.

I have my yearly endocrinologist meeting this week. I need to go to him to monitor my hormones due to my body not producing any of my own from my brain tumor and radiation that destroyed my pituitary. He always asks me how I am doing. I’ve been pondering how to answer him. I finally figured it out! If I can keep my neck from flaring up by not picking up anything heavy at all, keep my gut from flaring up by eating just what I am supposed to eat, and sleep well, I feel okay. It’s a tight rope I feel like I am walking on. I know I am fragile and complicated, but it’s the path God gave me to walk on.

Getting back to my grandchildren, they like healthy food because that’s almost all they eat. The ones who love my soup aren’t given candy. They were here on Halloween last year. They don’t celebrate Halloween, but I took them for a walk around my neighborhood before it got dark to visit my neighbors. One neighbor offered them some candy, so they took some. The two year old took one bite and gave it to me. None of them liked it except those who chose a chocolate bar. Fake food doesn’t taste good to those who have been raised on real food! (The postman loves my grandchildren and brought them a new package of cookies for Halloween. They didn’t like them at all!)

It’s so important to raise your children on healthy food. In this way, it’s what they will crave when they get older. Train your children in all of the ways you want them to go and when they grow up, they won’t depart from it. This reminds me of a sermon I just listened to my Pastor James Knox on raising faithful children. It’s teaching and training children to be faithful even in the little things like making their beds, cleaning their rooms, washing their plates after eating, and so on, so when they grow older, they will be responsible with their school work, getting to practices on time, and respecting the authority in their lives. My children were raised to be faithful (teaching them to obey us from a young age) and thankfully, they all walk in Truth. We do our part in raising them, then trust the Lord to change their hearts.

Any ways, this has been a post of things that have been on my mind lately, so I thought I would put my ramblings on one post! I had to turn off comments again because I was hacked and a lot of vile things were in my comment section without me even allowing them on. I sometimes wonder if anyone reads blog posts anymore, but I will keep going when I feel compelled to write something since I do enjoy writing and teaching women!

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Proverbs 4:5-9

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