It is truly amazing to me how far Eric and I have come just the past couple of years. When we were both working, we rarely had time to eat out, let alone eat something cooked at home. Now, we buy basic staples at BJ's, like flour, eggs, yeast, white and brown sugar, fruits and vegetables. We purchase our milk and beef (and soon our eggs) from the Simon Certified Organic Family Farm. We occasionally get chickens from them also, but they have been scarce. We also bought a tub of lard from a pig farm that was at the Canton Farmer's Market.
We make from scratch our breads, pie crust, cookies, granola (regular & chocolate), bagels, english muffins, cakes, icings, doughnuts, fudge, sauces, pancakes (regular & blueberry), waffles and pizza dough.
For the breads, we do have a few favorites. I like making Avanti's bread, Eric makes Subway loaves (he bought the mold for them), cinnamon raisin bread and then just regular old sandwich bread.
We have been canning our own chicken and beef stock. There has also been applesauce and pear sauce. I am hoping to can many vegetables out of my garden this summer too, such as peas, green beans, peppers, and tomatoes.
We do not buy premade chicken nuggets or fries. Eric makes them as needed. I cannot believe all of the additives they have in even the frozen premade foods.
The kids and I have not been to a fast food place in over 6 months. We have only been eating out 1 time a month, mostly at chain restaraunts, but that is soon to change also.
My next task is to start making our own pasta. Homemade pasta has a taste that you just can't get out of a cardboard box. I remember my Grandma making pasta and I would sit there crunching away on the freshly dried pasta (yes, it was that good).
I will update when we finally have our new pasta maker. I am currently bidding on it on E-Bay.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tidbits 1
I told you I would have tidbits of info for the coming events in our life.
In a few short weeks, Tabitha will be 5. So here are her tidbits...
1. Tabitha's first word was "kitty".
2. The majority of her diet from age 14 months to about 30 months was yogurt and mozzerella cheese sticks.
She did eat other things, but those were the 2 things we HAD to keep stocked in our refridgerator.
3. She learned to read over an 18 month period just recently. Eric and I can no longer spell things to each other, she will sound them out in her head and repeat it to us. We also can not allow her to be around us when we are on the internet, especially because of some of the comments that are posted on Facebook and other misc sites that are not child friendly.
In a few short weeks, Tabitha will be 5. So here are her tidbits...
1. Tabitha's first word was "kitty".
2. The majority of her diet from age 14 months to about 30 months was yogurt and mozzerella cheese sticks.
She did eat other things, but those were the 2 things we HAD to keep stocked in our refridgerator.
3. She learned to read over an 18 month period just recently. Eric and I can no longer spell things to each other, she will sound them out in her head and repeat it to us. We also can not allow her to be around us when we are on the internet, especially because of some of the comments that are posted on Facebook and other misc sites that are not child friendly.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Time is passing
It is so hard to believe that it is actually the year 2011. That means that Eric and I have known each other for 13 years, will be married for 10 years, Eric and I are "in our 30's!!!", Tabitha will be 5, and Grady will be 2.
Where does the time go?
I am going to try and scan all of our wedding pictures so I can post them on Facebook on our anniversary.
I am going to try and blog little tidbits about events past as the above events come to pass.
The first tidbit is - It's all Brian Auble's fault (not really, but lol).
Where does the time go?
I am going to try and scan all of our wedding pictures so I can post them on Facebook on our anniversary.
I am going to try and blog little tidbits about events past as the above events come to pass.
The first tidbit is - It's all Brian Auble's fault (not really, but lol).
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Jeremiah 8
As I sat out on our swing outside, reading my Bible, soaking up the sun, and enjoying the warm weather we had today. I came across another passage.
Jeremiah 8
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
It seems to me that this is referring to much of what I write, about the holidays that most "Christians" celebrate. People are only celebrating these holidays because they were brought up celebrating them, instead of finding their own way and seeking out what the truth is.
If you do not seek your own answers, you will never have the truth.
This actually applies in many areas in life. I have found more truth in the past couple of years on the subjects of childbirth, breastfeeding, homeschooling, cooking/gardening... It's amazing how many lies you come across when you only take someone's word for something. Reading the Bible, seeking a relationship with God, and research is the key to a healthy and joyful life.
Jeremiah 8
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
It seems to me that this is referring to much of what I write, about the holidays that most "Christians" celebrate. People are only celebrating these holidays because they were brought up celebrating them, instead of finding their own way and seeking out what the truth is.
If you do not seek your own answers, you will never have the truth.
This actually applies in many areas in life. I have found more truth in the past couple of years on the subjects of childbirth, breastfeeding, homeschooling, cooking/gardening... It's amazing how many lies you come across when you only take someone's word for something. Reading the Bible, seeking a relationship with God, and research is the key to a healthy and joyful life.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Another holiday...
Well, here we are again, at another holiday. One that Christians should not be celebrating.
First and most importantly because it is a pagan holiday. I know most people say that they celebrate it because of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, but did anyone stop to realize that we are not commanded to celebrate any "holidays", except for the ones that are commanded by God in the Bible?
Exodus 12:12-14
12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:17
And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
With a lot of research, I have learned that the physical church incorporated pagan holidays to attract pagans to go to church, but twisted them a little to make them seem "Christian". Churches embraced this deception and still do today for the same results. In the end it is all about the money.
Second, it takes away from the holy feasts that God did command us to keep, Passover, First Fruits, and Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Here is a chapter in the Bible that directly talks about God being furious, that people were celebrating Easter, instead of Passover and Unleavened Bread.
I have added my comments after the verses that I felt needed explanation.
Jeremiah 7
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
- Physical churches are not the temples of God, our bodies are.
5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- Physical churches will lie to your face.
9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
- Jesus is our church. Physical churches are only there for a feeling of socialization. Many people who attend churches are blasphemers and hypocrites.
11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
-Physical churches that claim to teach God's word are nothing but robbers. Stealing money to go into their own pockets and/ or pay off huge debts run up by the "officials" of the physical churches.
12But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
-God is speaking of opening the ears and eyes, which he repeatedly says over and over throughout the Bible, but you must be walking with him daily, getting to know him first before he starts revealing things to you.
14Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
- If we do not change our ways, we will not be allowed into heaven.
16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
- God will not hear you and form a relationship with you if you do not keep God's laws.
17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
-This verse is specifically talking about the people celebrating Easter. The "queen of heaven" 's name is Ishtar (pronounced Easter) / Ashtoreth / Astarte (she is mentioned in 1 Kings 11:5). The greek goddess' story has everything to do with eggs, sunrise worship (yes, I'm talking about how churches have a sunrise service), and even hot cross buns.
19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
- Until God opens your eyes and ears, you are ignorant to what he wants, and you follow sin, which makes God angry. You have to ask God to give you wisdom to open your eyes and ears to be able to start doing what God wants. Everything in the Bible is not physical/mental, it is spiritual, which is why you cannot try to find meanings (you will become confused, which is why there are so many physical churches out there), unless you are personally walking with God.
20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
- God is furious at the people, since they are worshipping idols and gods.
21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
- Do as God asks and he will be pleased.
24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
- Notice that God is talking about not hearing again.
27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Cutting your hair is a sin if you are a woman. God gave it as a glory to him. (1 Corinthians 11:15)
30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
- I believe this verse is talking about cremation. (I know it's off topic, but still...) It is also referring to the fact that people would sacrifice their children to their gods, which is absolutely a direct sin against God, since children are blessings given to us.
32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
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By the way, the holy days we are supposed to be remembering are (the months are according to the Hebrew calendar)
Passover (Nisan 14)
Unleavened Bread (Nisan 14 - 21)
First Fruits (Nisan 17)
Pentecost (You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath)
Trumpets (Tishri 1)
Day of Atonement (Tishri 10)
Feast of Tabernacles (Tishri 15)
If someone says that the feasts were given up when Christ died on the cross, they would be wrong, because these feasts were not the Moses Law, they were given to people by God. They are God's holy days.
Leviticus 23:44
And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
**I have not yet researched the biblical months in depth, since I am still trying to wrap my brain around all that I am being shown while reading the Bible daily.
First and most importantly because it is a pagan holiday. I know most people say that they celebrate it because of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, but did anyone stop to realize that we are not commanded to celebrate any "holidays", except for the ones that are commanded by God in the Bible?
Exodus 12:12-14
12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:17
And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
With a lot of research, I have learned that the physical church incorporated pagan holidays to attract pagans to go to church, but twisted them a little to make them seem "Christian". Churches embraced this deception and still do today for the same results. In the end it is all about the money.
Second, it takes away from the holy feasts that God did command us to keep, Passover, First Fruits, and Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Here is a chapter in the Bible that directly talks about God being furious, that people were celebrating Easter, instead of Passover and Unleavened Bread.
I have added my comments after the verses that I felt needed explanation.
Jeremiah 7
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
3Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
- Physical churches are not the temples of God, our bodies are.
5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- Physical churches will lie to your face.
9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
- Jesus is our church. Physical churches are only there for a feeling of socialization. Many people who attend churches are blasphemers and hypocrites.
11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
-Physical churches that claim to teach God's word are nothing but robbers. Stealing money to go into their own pockets and/ or pay off huge debts run up by the "officials" of the physical churches.
12But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
-God is speaking of opening the ears and eyes, which he repeatedly says over and over throughout the Bible, but you must be walking with him daily, getting to know him first before he starts revealing things to you.
14Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
- If we do not change our ways, we will not be allowed into heaven.
16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
- God will not hear you and form a relationship with you if you do not keep God's laws.
17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
-This verse is specifically talking about the people celebrating Easter. The "queen of heaven" 's name is Ishtar (pronounced Easter) / Ashtoreth / Astarte (she is mentioned in 1 Kings 11:5). The greek goddess' story has everything to do with eggs, sunrise worship (yes, I'm talking about how churches have a sunrise service), and even hot cross buns.
19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
- Until God opens your eyes and ears, you are ignorant to what he wants, and you follow sin, which makes God angry. You have to ask God to give you wisdom to open your eyes and ears to be able to start doing what God wants. Everything in the Bible is not physical/mental, it is spiritual, which is why you cannot try to find meanings (you will become confused, which is why there are so many physical churches out there), unless you are personally walking with God.
20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
- God is furious at the people, since they are worshipping idols and gods.
21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
- Do as God asks and he will be pleased.
24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
- Notice that God is talking about not hearing again.
27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Cutting your hair is a sin if you are a woman. God gave it as a glory to him. (1 Corinthians 11:15)
30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
- I believe this verse is talking about cremation. (I know it's off topic, but still...) It is also referring to the fact that people would sacrifice their children to their gods, which is absolutely a direct sin against God, since children are blessings given to us.
32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
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By the way, the holy days we are supposed to be remembering are (the months are according to the Hebrew calendar)
Passover (Nisan 14)
Unleavened Bread (Nisan 14 - 21)
First Fruits (Nisan 17)
Pentecost (You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath)
Trumpets (Tishri 1)
Day of Atonement (Tishri 10)
Feast of Tabernacles (Tishri 15)
If someone says that the feasts were given up when Christ died on the cross, they would be wrong, because these feasts were not the Moses Law, they were given to people by God. They are God's holy days.
Leviticus 23:44
And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
**I have not yet researched the biblical months in depth, since I am still trying to wrap my brain around all that I am being shown while reading the Bible daily.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Gardening - The beginning of something great.
Well, a few of my blog friends already have been keeping up with my Facebook page about my garden.
I started my garden way back at the end October, planting garlic and shallots. As of today, they look great, with dark green tops bursting out of the ground. I also started yukon potatoes, but there is no sign of life that I see just yet.
In January, I started indoor planting blueberry seeds. (They never sprouted, just molded... great start huh?) In February, I started my spinach and was pleasantly surprised to see sprouts in just a few days. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/3771784916/starting-the-garden
March is when my garden really started, and my counter space was limited. I planted the peas, brussel sprouts, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, rhubarb, ground cherry, basil, parsley, dill and onions. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/3922121928/windowsill-starter-garden-update-they-are-growing . Yes, it seems like a lot to do when it is still cold out, but I will be enjoying an early harvest, while some people who wait for the frost will be seeing little plants in their gardens.
The past couple of days have been wonderful around here with all of the warm weather, so I put all of my peas, onions, green beans, spinach, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts in the ground. Eric also helped me build and put up the pea trellises and tomato stakes. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/4480972691/garden-update
I am now praying that since they are cold weather vegetables, and I had our farm friends tell me, that they will continue to grow even if it decides to snow one last time.
I'll keep updating as I plant more. I am so looking forward to a wonderful harvest. (Yes, already)
I started my garden way back at the end October, planting garlic and shallots. As of today, they look great, with dark green tops bursting out of the ground. I also started yukon potatoes, but there is no sign of life that I see just yet.
In January, I started indoor planting blueberry seeds. (They never sprouted, just molded... great start huh?) In February, I started my spinach and was pleasantly surprised to see sprouts in just a few days. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/3771784916/starting-the-garden
March is when my garden really started, and my counter space was limited. I planted the peas, brussel sprouts, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, rhubarb, ground cherry, basil, parsley, dill and onions. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/3922121928/windowsill-starter-garden-update-they-are-growing . Yes, it seems like a lot to do when it is still cold out, but I will be enjoying an early harvest, while some people who wait for the frost will be seeing little plants in their gardens.
The past couple of days have been wonderful around here with all of the warm weather, so I put all of my peas, onions, green beans, spinach, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts in the ground. Eric also helped me build and put up the pea trellises and tomato stakes. http://weddellhappenings.tumblr.com/post/4480972691/garden-update
I am now praying that since they are cold weather vegetables, and I had our farm friends tell me, that they will continue to grow even if it decides to snow one last time.
I'll keep updating as I plant more. I am so looking forward to a wonderful harvest. (Yes, already)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Blog description
My blog started out as a public diary. It was meant to let everyone get a glimpse of our everyday lives. In the past 4 months, everything seems to be changing, since I have started reading the Bible daily and growing closer to God.
I still update on our lives, but it is no longer a pity party for me, since that's what is seemed like for a few weeks. I have said things that I needed to get out in the open and off my chest, so that I can move forward and not look back.
Now I am writing about what God lays in my heart, not to say that I won't still update on our daily lives. I read something in the Bible and it peaks my interest, so I research it. I don't go to just 1 website and quote what they say. I read every one's opinions and come to my own conclusions.
God has given me the ability to make my voice known through my blog, since most of you know that I often get too flustered to speak and give opinions person to person. Also, it seems that when I read things on the internet that are false, I get very emotionally upset and start trembling, that people are not seeing what God has shown me in his Word.
I am so very blessed to have people actually reading my blog. I hope that this continues. I found it very interesting, and truly amazing that I have had readers from Netherlands, Slovenia, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Denmark, Belarus, France, and India according to my status page. I would love to have people comment on my blog when they read it, so that I can get to know all of my readers.
I still update on our lives, but it is no longer a pity party for me, since that's what is seemed like for a few weeks. I have said things that I needed to get out in the open and off my chest, so that I can move forward and not look back.
Now I am writing about what God lays in my heart, not to say that I won't still update on our daily lives. I read something in the Bible and it peaks my interest, so I research it. I don't go to just 1 website and quote what they say. I read every one's opinions and come to my own conclusions.
God has given me the ability to make my voice known through my blog, since most of you know that I often get too flustered to speak and give opinions person to person. Also, it seems that when I read things on the internet that are false, I get very emotionally upset and start trembling, that people are not seeing what God has shown me in his Word.
I am so very blessed to have people actually reading my blog. I hope that this continues. I found it very interesting, and truly amazing that I have had readers from Netherlands, Slovenia, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Denmark, Belarus, France, and India according to my status page. I would love to have people comment on my blog when they read it, so that I can get to know all of my readers.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Trusting doctors
Why is it that people put so much faith in doctors, when they should be looking to God? I really don't understand when people rush to the doctor for every little thing, and actually believe that they know what they are talking about.
Yes, doctors go to school for a long time, but they don't know everything. That is why it is called a medical PRACTICE. They are practicing on people, hoping that some day they will get it right. Well, let me tell you, they never will.
Most doctors know nothing about natural healing and natural child birth. They are trained to look for something bad, even if it means running thousands of tests.
In the Bible it even says that doctors are worthless. God is the Great Physician.
Look at the story of the woman with a blood issue... http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%205:25-34&version=KJV ...verse 26 is the key.
I found this eye opening tidbit on another site while I was researching the verses above,
Is there ANY use for present-day doctors?
There are three different categories of medical problems: 1) Trauma,
2) Congenital Deformities, and 3) Disease.
God’s Promise is to “Heal ALL our DISEASES.” Psalm 103:3. The text says nothing about Trauma or Congenital deformities.
Trauma means “injury” such as when one breaks a leg, or is in a motor vehicle accident, or is the victim of a gunshot wound. Jesus had Trauma. He was beaten before He was crucified and He was injured when a crown of thorns was placed on His head. This is NOT “Disease.”
Trauma is NOT caused by the way one eats, lives, and handles stress. Trauma needs to be treated and repaired surgically by a Trauma Surgeon.
Congenital Deformities or Congenital Anomalies are in the category of Birth Defects. A child may be born with a cleft palate, or an extra digit, or a club foot, or some other anomaly. These are NOT caused by the way the child has been living, eating, and handling stress – although, in certain instances, it MAY have been caused by the way the mother was eating, living, and handling stress while she was pregnant.
This is NOT “Disease.” Congenital Deformities need to be surgically corrected by an appropriately trained Surgeon.
Diseases ARE CAUSED by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. In order to get well, we must CHANGE the way we live, eat and handle stress. We must follow GOD’S way, and NOT the ways of “man” – the ways of doctors! (For more information, see www.drday.com)
Doctors learn only TWO methods of treatment: 1) Give DRUGS, to cover up the symptoms by Poisoning or Burning the patient, or 2) Take out – or cut off – the “problem” organ by mutilating surgery.
Drugs never solve the underlying problem. They only “treat” symptoms, and they ALL have side effects. Drugs only change the form or location of the disease, they NEVER cure the disease. That is why, in many instances, the doctor will tell you that you have to be ON the drugs for the rest of your life.
God tells us in Revelation 18:23 that He abhors the use of drugs, because when a person is sick, and has symptoms, it is supposed to be a Red Flag warning to Turn to the Lord for the answers. Something is wrong with the life of the person who is sick, and ONLY the Lord’s Plan can make the person well.
Only GOD can show us how to live, how to eat, how to think and act, and how to handle stress. “Man’s” ways – the ways of “science and medicine” NEVER work in the long run. They may make a person FEEL better temporarily, they may temporarily appear to “shrink” a tumor, but they NEVER work to REVERSE the underlying disease, because NO doctor can address the problem of the “heart.”
THAT is God’s domain. Only God can reach down into your heart, and open up for you the things you need to CHANGE in your life, who you need to forgive, how to love your enemies, how to get the selfishness out of your life. THAT is where DISEASES begin, and NO doctor can touch that area.
God did not give us an extra supply of organs. And organ donations are certainly NOT God’s way.
God tells us that those who give out Drug Medications are an “Abomination to the Lord” and that the WHOLE WORLD will be DECEIVED by their “sorceries.”
“. . . for by thy sorceries were ALL NATIONS deceived.” Revelation 18:23
The word “sorceries” in this text, is the word pharmakeia in the Greek – pharmacy - DRUGS - in English.
The WHOLE WORLD will be deceived by the DRUG medications prescribed by doctors. God defines them as Sorceries and Witchcraft. Because Drug medications are essentially the same as street drugs. They are given to make a patient FEEL better, or to make the lab test numbers LOOK better, but they are only a temporary “Quick Fix.” They NEVER solve the underlying problem, - the actual CAUSE of the disease, which always begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, and handle stress OUR way, rather than GOD’S way.
The English words sorceries and witchcraft are the numbers 3784 and 3785 in Strong’s concordance. These words are found in: Exodus 7:11, 2 Kings 9:22,2 Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 27:9, Daniel 2:2, Malachi 3:5, Isaiah 47:9,12, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4.
The equivalent words in the Greek – sorceries, and witchcraft – are numbers 5331 and 5332 in Strong’s Concordance, as found in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15.
That Greek word is pharmakeia, or pharmacy – drug medications – Sorceries and witchcraft, according to the Bible.
The Bible terms drug medications, prescribed by doctors, as Sorceries and Witchcraft – because disease is a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” – in the attitudes and disposition because we want to live, eat and handle stress our OWN way, rather than learning to trust God.
So ANYTHING – including doctor-prescribed drug medications – that pulls us away from God and HIS wisdom - and towards the world and so-called “worldly wisdom” is anti-Christ. God says, “The wisdom of man is foolishness with God.”
Those who prescribe drug medications – doctors, pharmacologists, and pharmacists, are termed witches and sorcerers and poisoners (pharmakos) in the Bible. God is so much against drug medications, because they lead people away from Him, that in the Old Testament, God told Israel:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch (#3784) to live.” Exodus 22:18 (According to the Bible, a witch is one who dispenses drug medications.)
“There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch (#3784),
“Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer
“For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
It is not surprising to see that the Greek root “Phar. . .” is in all of the following words that are associated with the enemies of God and Christ:
Strong’s Concordance number:
#5328 – Pharoah – enslaved and tried to destroy the Israelites, the followers of God.
#5329 – Pharisees – those who murdered Christ
#5331 – Pharmakeia – drug medications – sorceries, also often kill those who
take them
#5332 – Pharmakeus – one who drugs or poisons people – druggist (and
physicians who give out drugs. Actual definition – poisoner or sorcerer
– one who poisons or kills.
#5333 – Pharmakos – the same as #5332
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I do want to say that I believe congenital deformities are a direct result of disobeying God. I will leave that topic at that.
I am personally ashamed that I did not realize any of this before Tabitha was born, but thankfully, God showed me in my research while I was pregnant, and even before when I was in school and worked in the doctor/hospital setting, that God made us healthy already. We do not need vaccinations and drugs to keep us healthy. All we need is our God given ability to nurse our children, which gives them antibodies and to eat the fresh wholesome foods that God taught us to grow. We also have herbs that we can grow that help with symptoms, that will not harm us, since they are given to us by God, while we figure out what area in our life needs work.
I am also kicking myself for going to the hospital a couple months ago. The only result was major frustration and a huge bill, that could have paid for something else we truly needed. I should have listened to my heart and not my head. God was telling my heart not to go...
I know our family still has a way to go to being fully sustainable, but we are taking baby steps, so we don't overwhelm ourselves.
The reason I was in the medical field in the first place was because of my Grandmother. I was going to grow up and be a nurse, so I could take care of her. I went through a medical academy during high school and even became a nursing assistant and worked in the children's hospital during my senior year. I went to medical assisting (more training, less pay) college after I moved to Ohio. Grandma died 2 months before I graduated. I kind of lost why I chose that profession after that, but I took a job in a pediatrician's office and was shown so many cruel and horrible things while there. God gave me an out and I took it 3 years later. Knowing what I know now, my children will not set foot in a doctor's office again.
Getting back to my grandma, I now understand now why she was so sick ever since I can remember. She was not right with the Lord. Grandma and Grandpa were active in the Mohamed Shrine Temple, all the while touting that they were Christians. The same thing followed my grandpa and father.
Here is also an interesting tidbit on the symbol of medicine:
Caduceus, symbolic staff surmounted by two wings and entwined with two snakes. Among the ancient Greeks the caduceus was carried by heralds and ambassadors as a badge of office and a mark of personal inviolability, because it was the symbol of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. According to Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, the Greek god Apollo gave the staff to Hermes in return for the lyre. In Roman mythology the symbol is associated with the god Mercury. The staff of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, which was entwined by a single snake, was also called a caduceus. The caduceus has been adopted as a symbol by the medical profession; it is also the emblem of the medical branches of the United States Army and Navy.
The snake and staff in the center of the symbol portray the staff Asclepius who, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Apollo (god of light, truth and prophecy). Supposedly Asclepius learned the art of healing from the centaur Cheron; but Zeus - king of the gods, was fearful that because of the Asclepius knowledge, all men might be rendered immortal. Rather than have this occur, Zeus slew Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Later, Asclepius was worshiped as a god and people slept in his temples, as it was rumored that he affected cures of prescribed remedies to the sick during their dreams.
Asclepius was usually shown in a standing position, dressed in a long cloak, holding a staff with a serpent coiled around it. The staff has since come to represent medicine's only symbol. In the Caduceus, used by physicians and the Military Medical Corp., the staff is winged and has two serpents intertwined. Even though this does not hold any medical relevance in origin, it represents the magic wand of the Greek deity, Hermes, messenger of the gods.
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Either you will run to the world or doctors to save yourself or you will run to God for saving. You cannot have it both ways and expect it to be pleasing to God.
Yes, doctors go to school for a long time, but they don't know everything. That is why it is called a medical PRACTICE. They are practicing on people, hoping that some day they will get it right. Well, let me tell you, they never will.
Most doctors know nothing about natural healing and natural child birth. They are trained to look for something bad, even if it means running thousands of tests.
In the Bible it even says that doctors are worthless. God is the Great Physician.
Look at the story of the woman with a blood issue... http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%205:25-34&version=KJV ...verse 26 is the key.
I found this eye opening tidbit on another site while I was researching the verses above,
Is there ANY use for present-day doctors?
There are three different categories of medical problems: 1) Trauma,
2) Congenital Deformities, and 3) Disease.
God’s Promise is to “Heal ALL our DISEASES.” Psalm 103:3. The text says nothing about Trauma or Congenital deformities.
Trauma means “injury” such as when one breaks a leg, or is in a motor vehicle accident, or is the victim of a gunshot wound. Jesus had Trauma. He was beaten before He was crucified and He was injured when a crown of thorns was placed on His head. This is NOT “Disease.”
Trauma is NOT caused by the way one eats, lives, and handles stress. Trauma needs to be treated and repaired surgically by a Trauma Surgeon.
Congenital Deformities or Congenital Anomalies are in the category of Birth Defects. A child may be born with a cleft palate, or an extra digit, or a club foot, or some other anomaly. These are NOT caused by the way the child has been living, eating, and handling stress – although, in certain instances, it MAY have been caused by the way the mother was eating, living, and handling stress while she was pregnant.
This is NOT “Disease.” Congenital Deformities need to be surgically corrected by an appropriately trained Surgeon.
Diseases ARE CAUSED by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. In order to get well, we must CHANGE the way we live, eat and handle stress. We must follow GOD’S way, and NOT the ways of “man” – the ways of doctors! (For more information, see www.drday.com)
Doctors learn only TWO methods of treatment: 1) Give DRUGS, to cover up the symptoms by Poisoning or Burning the patient, or 2) Take out – or cut off – the “problem” organ by mutilating surgery.
Drugs never solve the underlying problem. They only “treat” symptoms, and they ALL have side effects. Drugs only change the form or location of the disease, they NEVER cure the disease. That is why, in many instances, the doctor will tell you that you have to be ON the drugs for the rest of your life.
God tells us in Revelation 18:23 that He abhors the use of drugs, because when a person is sick, and has symptoms, it is supposed to be a Red Flag warning to Turn to the Lord for the answers. Something is wrong with the life of the person who is sick, and ONLY the Lord’s Plan can make the person well.
Only GOD can show us how to live, how to eat, how to think and act, and how to handle stress. “Man’s” ways – the ways of “science and medicine” NEVER work in the long run. They may make a person FEEL better temporarily, they may temporarily appear to “shrink” a tumor, but they NEVER work to REVERSE the underlying disease, because NO doctor can address the problem of the “heart.”
THAT is God’s domain. Only God can reach down into your heart, and open up for you the things you need to CHANGE in your life, who you need to forgive, how to love your enemies, how to get the selfishness out of your life. THAT is where DISEASES begin, and NO doctor can touch that area.
God did not give us an extra supply of organs. And organ donations are certainly NOT God’s way.
God tells us that those who give out Drug Medications are an “Abomination to the Lord” and that the WHOLE WORLD will be DECEIVED by their “sorceries.”
“. . . for by thy sorceries were ALL NATIONS deceived.” Revelation 18:23
The word “sorceries” in this text, is the word pharmakeia in the Greek – pharmacy - DRUGS - in English.
The WHOLE WORLD will be deceived by the DRUG medications prescribed by doctors. God defines them as Sorceries and Witchcraft. Because Drug medications are essentially the same as street drugs. They are given to make a patient FEEL better, or to make the lab test numbers LOOK better, but they are only a temporary “Quick Fix.” They NEVER solve the underlying problem, - the actual CAUSE of the disease, which always begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, and handle stress OUR way, rather than GOD’S way.
The English words sorceries and witchcraft are the numbers 3784 and 3785 in Strong’s concordance. These words are found in: Exodus 7:11, 2 Kings 9:22,2 Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 27:9, Daniel 2:2, Malachi 3:5, Isaiah 47:9,12, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4.
The equivalent words in the Greek – sorceries, and witchcraft – are numbers 5331 and 5332 in Strong’s Concordance, as found in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15.
That Greek word is pharmakeia, or pharmacy – drug medications – Sorceries and witchcraft, according to the Bible.
The Bible terms drug medications, prescribed by doctors, as Sorceries and Witchcraft – because disease is a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” – in the attitudes and disposition because we want to live, eat and handle stress our OWN way, rather than learning to trust God.
So ANYTHING – including doctor-prescribed drug medications – that pulls us away from God and HIS wisdom - and towards the world and so-called “worldly wisdom” is anti-Christ. God says, “The wisdom of man is foolishness with God.”
Those who prescribe drug medications – doctors, pharmacologists, and pharmacists, are termed witches and sorcerers and poisoners (pharmakos) in the Bible. God is so much against drug medications, because they lead people away from Him, that in the Old Testament, God told Israel:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch (#3784) to live.” Exodus 22:18 (According to the Bible, a witch is one who dispenses drug medications.)
“There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch (#3784),
“Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer
“For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
It is not surprising to see that the Greek root “Phar. . .” is in all of the following words that are associated with the enemies of God and Christ:
Strong’s Concordance number:
#5328 – Pharoah – enslaved and tried to destroy the Israelites, the followers of God.
#5329 – Pharisees – those who murdered Christ
#5331 – Pharmakeia – drug medications – sorceries, also often kill those who
take them
#5332 – Pharmakeus – one who drugs or poisons people – druggist (and
physicians who give out drugs. Actual definition – poisoner or sorcerer
– one who poisons or kills.
#5333 – Pharmakos – the same as #5332
----------
I do want to say that I believe congenital deformities are a direct result of disobeying God. I will leave that topic at that.
I am personally ashamed that I did not realize any of this before Tabitha was born, but thankfully, God showed me in my research while I was pregnant, and even before when I was in school and worked in the doctor/hospital setting, that God made us healthy already. We do not need vaccinations and drugs to keep us healthy. All we need is our God given ability to nurse our children, which gives them antibodies and to eat the fresh wholesome foods that God taught us to grow. We also have herbs that we can grow that help with symptoms, that will not harm us, since they are given to us by God, while we figure out what area in our life needs work.
I am also kicking myself for going to the hospital a couple months ago. The only result was major frustration and a huge bill, that could have paid for something else we truly needed. I should have listened to my heart and not my head. God was telling my heart not to go...
I know our family still has a way to go to being fully sustainable, but we are taking baby steps, so we don't overwhelm ourselves.
The reason I was in the medical field in the first place was because of my Grandmother. I was going to grow up and be a nurse, so I could take care of her. I went through a medical academy during high school and even became a nursing assistant and worked in the children's hospital during my senior year. I went to medical assisting (more training, less pay) college after I moved to Ohio. Grandma died 2 months before I graduated. I kind of lost why I chose that profession after that, but I took a job in a pediatrician's office and was shown so many cruel and horrible things while there. God gave me an out and I took it 3 years later. Knowing what I know now, my children will not set foot in a doctor's office again.
Getting back to my grandma, I now understand now why she was so sick ever since I can remember. She was not right with the Lord. Grandma and Grandpa were active in the Mohamed Shrine Temple, all the while touting that they were Christians. The same thing followed my grandpa and father.
Here is also an interesting tidbit on the symbol of medicine:
Caduceus, symbolic staff surmounted by two wings and entwined with two snakes. Among the ancient Greeks the caduceus was carried by heralds and ambassadors as a badge of office and a mark of personal inviolability, because it was the symbol of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. According to Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, the Greek god Apollo gave the staff to Hermes in return for the lyre. In Roman mythology the symbol is associated with the god Mercury. The staff of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, which was entwined by a single snake, was also called a caduceus. The caduceus has been adopted as a symbol by the medical profession; it is also the emblem of the medical branches of the United States Army and Navy.
The snake and staff in the center of the symbol portray the staff Asclepius who, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Apollo (god of light, truth and prophecy). Supposedly Asclepius learned the art of healing from the centaur Cheron; but Zeus - king of the gods, was fearful that because of the Asclepius knowledge, all men might be rendered immortal. Rather than have this occur, Zeus slew Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Later, Asclepius was worshiped as a god and people slept in his temples, as it was rumored that he affected cures of prescribed remedies to the sick during their dreams.
Asclepius was usually shown in a standing position, dressed in a long cloak, holding a staff with a serpent coiled around it. The staff has since come to represent medicine's only symbol. In the Caduceus, used by physicians and the Military Medical Corp., the staff is winged and has two serpents intertwined. Even though this does not hold any medical relevance in origin, it represents the magic wand of the Greek deity, Hermes, messenger of the gods.
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Either you will run to the world or doctors to save yourself or you will run to God for saving. You cannot have it both ways and expect it to be pleasing to God.
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