Things in life feel like they are shifting, or fixing to shift. We started on this oily adventure several months ago and since then I have met a lot of different people with different outlooks on life. Outlooks that are so different from mine that I have to stop and take a deep breath. This specifically falls under the topics in life titled "vaccines", "diet", "health", "medications", and well you get the point.
Let me point out one thing here. I am going to try and be as honest as I possibly can. This is all quite a struggle for me. I don't have the answers and trying to figure out what is right for my family seems like a daunting task at times because I really don't want to mess it up!!
So there are some things I have come to realize need to change. Here is where my hesitation comes in. I meet people who say things like "what you are eating is bad" "Raw food diets are the only way" "vaccines are bad" "don't take medications" etc etc.... My hang up comes from motivation. This trending idea of "Crunchy" has become a very popular movement. Like pretty much every other person I know, I want to be liked and accepted. So I have to watch myself when it comes to these topics because why am I all of a sudden doing (fill in the blank)?? Am I changing everything I have ever known because I have a strong conviction to do so or am I doing it because my friends are? Its so easy to jump on the bandwagon and join in the crowd and do what everyone else is doing. Don't get me wrong. Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it bad, but I think there needs to be a personal heartfelt God caused stir in my heart for these changes.
I started oils because my smallest mini human was 4 months old and couldn't breathe because his head was so stopped up. He couldn't breathe so he couldn't sleep and he couldn't eat because he couldn't breathe. I had a problem. Being that small they don't suggest you give them anything that will help so I called a friend. Being the awesome person she is, she brought me some oils to give him. I never turned back. Its pretty much an addiction. All that to say I didn't get into oils because it was the cool thing.
So another topic I have in front of me: vaccines. This one is a toughy. People get seriously bent out of shape over this topic! My kids are vaccinated. For the time being they will continue to be vaccinated. (I say it that way because I'm not going to say they will never go no-vacc because absolutes tend to come back to bite me in the hiney). So I have not made the decision to not vaccinate my mini-humans. I don't see that decision coming anytime soon either. I don't have a huge conviction to not vaccinate them. I have some close friends that do. That's cool with me. I don't have a problem with that, but that is not something God has put on my heart. This is one of those areas it would be so easy to say "I'm against vaccines" but simply because everyone else seems to be. If I did that I would have no factual base for it! There may come a day when God changes my heart on the matter, and if that happens we will re-open this can of worms.
So the shift I feel coming on or continuing on comes with food. For the last few months food has been a topic of discussion when it comes to changes. For the last week I feel like I have been hit over the head with it!! It even came up this morning at church not from a direction I was even expecting! As I sat in Sunday School I finally went "okay Lord, I get it". This is not going to be a fun change, or an easy change. Its going to take more work on my part, but I feel like God has put this topic in front of me repeatedly for a reason. Food effects our health so much its unreal. Not just from the basis of you're getting fat from McDonalds, but thyroid issues, colon issues, cancer, the list goes on and on. Food has started to really cause major damage to our bodies! So from someone who drinks at least one dr pepper a day and loves sugar...pray for me. Pray for all of us! To be quite honest I'm pretty scared about this change.
This week I am starting a new Bible study with Proverbs 31 Ministries called "Living So That". The first weeks memory verse is John 3:16 For God so love the world that He gave His one and only son (so) that whoever believes in Him will have everlasting life. The basis of the study is that there are several times in the Bible that something happened so that something else could or would happen. Making meaningful choices in a crazy life. I'm excited about the study and the meaningful time to really dig into the Word of God.
