SATURDAY IS SPEAKING TO ME

Relieved the week-end is here.  Resting well at night helps energize me for the next day.  Last week I spent quite a few hours in the car going places and attending medical appointments.  My Physical Therapy appointments were extra hard as I did exercises that made me sweat.  Fatigued afterwards.

Hubby had a appointment with a cancer doctor on Friday to go over his blood work from previous week.  The WAIT AND WATCH philosophy is at work here.  His labs looked good.  A second CT scan will be scheduled and the lymph node in the neck that is bothering him will be checked again.  

I'm not sure where this will go.  In the mean time, I'll be researching and studying how others deal with non-hodgkins lymphoma.

I am on the last days of the DANIEL DIET!  Hurray.  Tomorrow is day 21 for me.  I did it.  Praise the Lord. 

I will finish this out and then on Monday, I will have spaghetti with real beef.  I'll go easy on the noodles.  I can do this.  As the week advances, I'll continue to eat more veggies than not.  Some fruit will be added in.  The main substance in the diet will be vegetables and fruit.  

Chicken, beef, turkey, eggs, cheese, nuts and seeds will be eaten for protein.  If I have bread or cereal it will be EZEKIEL.  

Oats occasionally.  Cottage cheese the same.  Yogurt.  Add some fruit and nuts to these.  Makes for a great breakfast or snack.

Vitamins, minerals, amino acids plus apple cider vinegar are being taken.  

Smaller portions and stepping on the scale ever so often to see progress with losing weight.  Next week I hope to drop a few more pounds.  Close to 8 weeks before my labs will communicate how I'm doing with lowering sugar glucose.  Weight should be taken and blood pressure.   

Lately, I have been viewing videos about decorating.  Still interested in organizing.  Some time spent on studying up on cults.  A couple of weeks ago Gwen Shamblin Lara died in a airplane crash along with her husband Tarzan, son-in-law and 4 adults involved in leadership of her church.

It's odd how a few weeks before she died, I had looked her up to see what she was up to as she was the boss lady with the WEIGH DOWN program.  Then she dies in a crash.  I had stopped associating with her after the news came out that she didn't believe in the Holy Trinity.  Many stopped associating with her after this.  I wasn't aware that she created a church in which she was the Pastor.  

She was referred to as a Prophetess.  Stop right there.  There has been many a church movement started by women that turned into cults through history.  Many started in the mid 1880s.  Some do not agree with the Bible that says women should not be spiritual leaders over men.  Doesn't the Bible say women should not be the spiritual head of churches?  

When I googled Gwen, I was taken aback by her hairstyle which reminded me of Jan Crouch of TBN.  Jan died a few years back from complications from a stroke.  She wore several wigs upon her head and wore lots of make-up.  Gwen on the other hand looked like she just ratted and teased her hair piled on top of her petite body.

The pictures and videos I saw of her showed a progression of how her make-up morphed from looking natural to having brown lines drawn around her lips and overpowering eye shadow on upper eyelid to migrating under her eyes almost like what football players wear to shield the sunshine from blinding them while playing ball.  Wearing high heels on her short stature that would help one fall over breaking an ankle. 

Gwen with her first husband, David that helped her develop the WEIGH DOWN program and encouraged her.  This marriage ended in divorce in August 2018.  She was seeing the actor who played the television TARZAN before she divorced.  Quickly after divorcing David, Gwen married Joe Lara.  She was strongly opposed to divorce until she went through it herself then her teachings changed.

I got the impression that her message of salvation she gave was not by grace through Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, but one of works with self denial.  She was off the mark.  I watched her message of being born again and it was lacking God's truth that Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of God that died on the cross for all of mankind's sin and it is by believing that we receive him as ones personal savior.  Hers was by works of self denial.  Works. 

Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden and I will give you rest."  He did not say, "AND by the way, if you are FAT, don't bother me.  I'm only here for the skinny." 

Gwen taught that if you are FAT you will not enter Heaven.  Hmm. Jesus didn't teach getting saved isn't possible if you are FAT.  Your spirit man isn't limited to being born again through Christ because of your physical appearance.      

She definitely was into self denial of food, but the earthly mansion she lived in did not speak of one who denied themselves earthly riches. 

Walking on the grounds of her Tennessee Ashlawn estate.

ASHLAWN ESTATE

I questioned years ago how her philosophy of eating only when one is hungry after the stomach growls worked when raising young children that need routine with three square meals a day with healthy snacks.  This technique does not work when needing to fix children daily meals.  It isn't healthy either when needing to have blood sugars stay stable.  

I get it... when it comes to eating, one should eat slowly chewing the morsel that's in ones mouth. I get it... chewing the food until it liquifies in the mouth before swallowing.  I get it... to use smaller plates to eat off of and smaller portions.  I get it, BUT I don't agree with Gwen's idea that you can eat anything you want...just eat until you are satisfied then STOP.  No problem with between bites lay your fork down taking sips of a beverage.  

I don't believe that you can eat anything as sound advise coming from a registered dietician.  I don't believe she ever got into the message of nutrition at all.  She believed the fewer calories you consumed the skinnier you'd be like the Holocaust victims at Nazi camps.  Starvation is not the answer.

 OH Lord, these poor people.  Sigh.

I have since learned that all calories do not burn the same.  200 calories from a donut does not burn the same in the human body as 200 calories from vegetables does.  Advising someone that they can eat anything they want, but stopping after a few bites is not healthy.  Of course many people want to hear, "Eat all you want of what ever you want." with there being no concerns about healthy nutrition to fuel the body.  

Isn't that clever where the l's in naturallyslim look like a slender waist?  A few years back, my husband and I did a program through his employment company called NATURALLY SLIM by Marcia Upson which had the same philosophy of eat what you want.  It concerned me then as it does me now that this isn't based on nutrition, but appeals to a person's lust and gluttony. NATURALLY SLIM has changed its name to WONDR Health without the E.  Marcia is rolling in the dough.  

She had a pretty sweet GIG as she was lined up with many Oil Companies and other institutions to use her program to lose weight.  When it came time with my husband's work where they had to earn points to get a better rate on their health insurance prices, we humbled ourselves and took the bait.  I learned how to score a perfect number on the quizzes we were required to take to receive credit for the program to get cheaper insurance.  Ta-daah.  I also learned that there is such a thing as subliminal messages that people are subjected to that does not direct one to eating healthier foods or being healthy at all just so you look the part of being slim and youthful.  You can now be a cookie cutter human in a world of mystery.

Non-Alcoholic FATTY LIVER is at an all time high and climbing in the United States of America due to eating highly processed foods with high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, artificial sweeteners, additional sugars, high sodiums, GMO corn and wheat, chemicals and additives.  Also I suspect some medications have had a part in this.

Some people have the overall look of being slender, but this doesn't necessarily mean they are healthy.  Skinny on the outside may mean diseased liver on the inside.  

Striving to be healthier is more important than being so skinny you are skin and bones.  The battle to thin down can become more peaceful than constantly being at war with food.  Pray God's peace and comfort over oneself and pray to eat and drink what is healthy. 

More vegetables and fruit, easy on the meats, dairy, grains, low on carbohydrates.  Spring water, no sugary beverages, give up artificial sweeteners.  Eat slower from smaller plates.  Chew, chew, chew the food.  Eat nutritionally dense foods that are organic and non-GMO.

Hello Saturday.  I hear you loud and clear.

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SADDENED

JUST LIKE THAT IT IS THE NEW YEAR.  Wanted 2020 to vaporize into thin air. It vanished. Full of memories and thoughts about life and death.  Prayers for protection and prayers for the hurting.

In December, my sister-in-law's baby brother died from covid.  Twas horrible.  Yesterday, I found out a friend of mine had died from covid.  I'm so saddened it hurts.  Sally died.  She was diagnosed on Friday with covid with no symptoms.  Within hours she was so ill she died suddenly on Sunday.  I am stunned.

Stunned.  Please wear your mask, social distance and wash your hands often.  Please.  We have no way of knowing how long a virus like this will torment the earth.  God help us.  

I don't live in fear.  I do live, breathe and have my being in the LORD and desire to walk in wisdom.  Wearing a seatbelt is a precaution that I do not protest against.  Locking my doors is another.  Not walking about outside in the dark, another.  I don't crawl into a cage with lions, tigers and bears...oh my.  Though I am a Christian, I do not handle rattlesnakes and quote,  "No weapon formed against me shall prosper."  I can see how many think that Christians are crazy. Crazy and not balanced.  The truth be known, crazy comes in all shapes and sizes and crosses over denominational barriers Christian and not.    

January 6th is just around the corner.  In about 24 hours the unknown will materialize in Washington DC at the Capitol where the counting will take place for the electoral vote.  What will transpire concerning the counting of the electoral votes?  Will there be upheaval, rioting, martial law?  Shut down America while living in Trump's America?  

In wanting freedoms so badly they may lose them.  Some are willing to walk right into a den of thieves with their eyes wide open thinking they are being patriotic.  Get snagged in a web of lies coming from the Commander in Chief.  It reminds me of when I did not want to get involved with a cult because my oldest brother was snared into one called THE WAY.  He'd have a nervous breakdown and his life altered due to drugs and wrong thinking.  I was determined to stay out of cults and like a fool I'd walk right into one in the religious realm when I was in my thirties.  I am now 65.  As much as I didn't want to be in a cult, I didn't see it happening while it was going on. I walked smack dab into a cult willingly.

After much hurt and devastation in my marriage, I was determined to be a stronger Christian that was full of determination to be POWERFUL so I wouldn't get hurt anymore.  I thought I was doing the right thing concerning strength and honor.

I walked right into the WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT willingly and devoured their teachings. Believing everything they said and took it as truth.  When I began to come out of this cult, it was painful because I was so heavily saturated in it.  My thinking had to be changed.  I wanted to know how God wanted me to believe and not what so many high profile preachers, pastors and teachers taught.  I wanted to know for myself and so I dug in.  Praying.  God delivered me out of this cult.  Slowly I gained ground and had my eyes opened to God's truth.  I can see now how false teachings have invaded the present day churches.  Nondenominational to denominational alike.

At the time that I was being shown the light, it hurt my feelings and didn't feel so good.  It stung that I was so off the mark concerning the Christian life and how to live it.  I hung in there and continued to let God minister to my spirit and can now say that I am so very thankful that I survived the cleansing.  It is better to walk in the light then to dance in the dark.  It is far healthier and wiser.

Whenever one ignores the importance of being born again and thinks that there must be far more to this being saved thing then the devil will not disappoint you and will usher in delusion to feed your unappreciative soul with gobbly goop that's easy going down and taste good.  You will eagerly believe Satan's lies.  The showy becomes marvelous and the simple things of life aren't good enough for the ones so hungry for power.  Pride shows up and sings a melodious song easy on the ears which are itching for more about self than God.  It becomes glamorous and enticing to embrace the power.  

Now to a different subject matter, but similar to how people can get into believing lies.  Some call it the trump culture.      

Why do so many trust and believe everything our President says?  Mainly because they want to. He is now tweeting that the Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors. Pence does not have the power to do this.  He doesn't.  For a President that says he is a law and order President, he fails to honor the constitution.  This is disturbing. 

 

 What will unfold tomorrow?  Drama.

Will President Trump attend the January 20th Inauguration

or will he already be out of the country?

Because I have these questions does not mean I hate the President.

We shall see what unfolds in the light.

♡

d