Carnivore Religion

I am almost a dietitian and am currently studying for the RD exam. Yesterday I studied vitamins. I learned again that mostly all vitamins (with the acceptation of Cobalamin, or B12) are obtained from consuming fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and dried beans. The very fact alone that we can get our vitamins from plant-based sources, which are the richest, makes me a happy (mostly) vegan.

If I was a carnivore it would look like this: animals receive the vitamins from whatever plant source they are eating and then meat eaters get the vitamins second hand by eating the animals. This way of eating is very survivable and many people do it. Although, I would rather thrive than merely survive so, like I said before, I try to get the best food by eating from the source.

My husband is (mostly) vegan as well and his coworkers are all carnivores. They like to give him a hard time about it to which he just smiles and laughs with them. One joking comment one of the guys said in response to David's lunch was, "That's what real food eats."

Other funny comments I have received over the years include, but are certainly not limited to:

"How do you milk a bean?"
"Fast food to you is stopping in a near by field."

Anyway...that's not why I was writing this post.

Spiritually speaking I have been a carnivore. For devotionals in the morning I usually read my bible for awhile, devote some time to memorizing scripture, then read some spirit of prophesy, pray with God, and then my husband and I pray together for each other. Recently though, I have been reading a few passages in my bible and then look up a sermon and listen to that for awhile. It was great for a while, but every time I would hear the preacher quote scripture I would just get this longing for a deeper connection with the bible and with God. I was taking the nutrients from the pastor who was drawing their message form the source and it left me just surviving.

I want to thrive. Jesus is the true source of all our vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients that our body needs with no exceptions. It's kinda confusing in nutrition because there are carbohydrates, fats, and proteins all found in different sources and that is just the beginning not even getting into the micronutrients, but when it comes to salvation, it's Jesus! He is the source of all our needs.



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

House-Sitting

After playing a long game of indoor soccer with some high school boys, David and I were feeling all too old for our age. I looked so red and was sweating all over. If you want to know how old you are quickly, play soccer with young energetic boys!

I was sitting in the lobby of the school guzzling down my water when all of the sudden I overheard a women talking to a man about needing someone to house sit for her family over the summer. During my eves-dropping, I heard her list all the benefits of house sitting and how she couldn't believe that no one she knew wanted to do it.

I was thinking of how we needed a place to stay this summer as our lease was running to a end all too quickly. My eyes darted to David as he was overhearing the same conversation. We both stared at each other with our jaws dropped for some time as the lady went on and on how great of a deal it would be for anyone.

As the women was headed out the door, I couldn't stand it any longer. My sweaty, red-faced, panting self stood up from the corner of the lobby and marched right over to the women and blurted out, "I happened to over-hear that you needed someone to house sit for you this summer." Looking at me with a look of surprise (and I imagine the look of me at that very moment in time was not the best for first impressions, especially if I was wanting to inhabit her house while she was away.) "yes, I am looking for someone" she said while taking another look at me. I smiled and told her our story and was ready to give her our contact information when she said, "well, you are friends with Brooke (a teacher at the school standing next to us) right? I'll get ahold of you through her."  "Yeah, that sounds great!"

Later I found out that she asked Brooke about us before contacting us (which was VERY understandable considering my appearance after the game!).

After a nice dinner with the family (perhaps getting the approval of everyone), we are now house sitting for the whole summer.

God is so good. We had been trying to work everything out this summer in getting prepared to go to Chad that we were swamped with trying to find options for summer housing, but he worked it all out for us. He had a plan the whole time. We moved in about a week ago, and yes there are challenges with housesitting, but he assures us our needs will be met by Him.

What an awesome God. He is faithful and just in keeping his promises.

Matthew 6:25-33 says,
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Trust in The Lord with all your heart and you will be blessed.