- I want to be the best wife I can be.
- I want to be the best mom I can be.
- I want to have a full spiritual life.
- I want to get old and look back and not be bitter, and grow old well.
- I want to be a more positive person.
- I want community.
- I want to constantly be learning more and bettering myself.
These are things I am constantly thinking about. I am not particularly great at any of them, but I try. The funny thing is that I have found a new passion that feeds all of these things. The more I learn about eating whole foods the more I see how it can make my life better. I am excited about easing into this journey, and excited about where it will lead me.
Feeding myself, and my family healthy nutritious food helps me be a better wife and mother. I already love cooking, and for me is very connected to showing love and caring for my family. I love to cook, but that is mostly, I think, because I love my family. I am feeling better, and it gives me more to be a wife and mother. I am putting effort and thought, and love into the food I feed my husband and children. I am giving them better health, along with a pleasurable meal. Better wife and mother, check.
I am finding eating whole natural foods is very much tied to God. You eat what is given to you in its most natural state possible, as He intended. We are praying more before meals, because eating this way is giving us a consciousness about the food we eat. Something that I purchase from a farmer I am so much more grateful for because it is tied to another human being. I am thankful for my food because I am thinking about how it will nourish my body, and my family's. I pray before I buy the food that we will be able to make it work, because our society is set up to where it is cheaper to let a company do for you what you could do for yourself. Feeding me spirtually check.
Think about that. How long has it not been cheaper to make your own clothes or make things from scratch ingredients.
I know that if I take responsibility for my health now will make me grow old well. Also seeking this knowledge, trying, leads to fewer regrets. Aging better, check.
This whole process is bringing nothing but positivity to my outlook on life. I feel like I have power of this now, and I didn't feel that way a few months ago. I feel happy and productive! Positivity, check.
This way of eating is all about community. I had a class at my house Monday night, with some ladies I love, and some new friends. We had a friends sis in law come and teach us the basics, and as we talked from us being together, to getting to know your farmer, to us pooling our resources to do this thing, it is all about community. I love it. Community, check.
As far as learning, this is all about that. I have to learn how to find and prepare real foods. It is crazy when you think about it you have to teach yourself these things, but our society has became this way. I have a lot to learn, and a long ways to go, and I can't wait. Expanding my horizons, check.
Eating whole foods feeds my body, mind, and spirit.
Amen.
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