Twists in Our Path Toward Healing
Hello friends. I am humbled by how many are out there reading this blog. Many of you I do not know and will never know. Yet, since I feel like you are along with us for this journey, I call you friends. As many of you know I took a break from blogging a few weeks ago because of a health crisis in my family. I am still not at liberty to share about that, but I will thank you for your prayers and ask you to keep them coming. It is not over, I’m just coming to a place of acceptance and am ready to get back to work. My family has been on a healing journey since before my first child was born. I spent much of 2002 using a wheelchair because of the pain I was...
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The state of My Health Summer 2012.
This isn’t the greatest photo of me. My hair is doing something strange and the shadows are weird across my face. BUT this is also one of my favorite photos that I have taken recently. It is commemorating my victory over sickness. I am in the park near my house where I walked with my children to meet up with friends. I travel to this park every week to meet these same friends but for the past 2 years that weekly meeting has involved a car if I was able to make the trip at all. On this day I walked the half mile to the park and I felt good doing it for the first time since 2010. I wasn’t sure I was ever going to be able to make that trip on foot again and I had...
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Coconut Flour Hot Crossed Buns
One of me memories from growing up was that every Sunday morning we would have scrambled eggs and some sort of sweet pastry before church. On Easter this was usually hot crossed buns. These pasties were usually purchased and made by Entenmann’s. Not exactly real food or GAPS friendly but still a memory that comes back to me at times. Easter is one of those times. In reading about Hot Crossed Buns I have learned that they are traditionally eaten on Good Friday not Easter Sunday as we did growing up. I have also learned that they are yet another tradition that has been borrowed by Christians from earlier pagan practices. Spiced buns with a cross marked on them were eaten to celebrate spring by the Saxons and possibly earlier than that in other cultures. For me I like...
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Cancer
When I was in college I was in a very small acting group. There were just 5 of us traveling around preforming skits for churches and youth rallies all over the North East. We became very close doing that. We would stay in peoples homes and sometimes the accommodations were better than others. One time we three women stayed at a home that didn’t have a bed or even a couch to offer us. They had assumed that we would come with our own bedding but we didn’t. They had 2 sleeping bags for the 3 of us to share. It was not a warm night. We 3 zipped those sleeping bags together and crawled in and slept like that. We knew that one of us was grouchy in the mornings so she got the middle so that we wouldn’t disturb...
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Blessed so that we can bless others.
For the past several years our Christmas gifts to our parents have been the gift of a donation to others in need. This year we had some fun giving them clue gifts from their grandchildren and now we will reveal what the “real” gifts are. This year those gifts are real and tangible for my children to see and participate in assembling. We had two gift catalogs that we selected the gifts from. One was for Heifer International and the other was the Mennonite Central Comittee Gift Catalog We have given through Heifer for many years but this was our first year giving through MCC. One thing that we really liked about that catalog was the ability to actually give something physical, not just money. More about that in a bit. We started out our gift giving with a trip toPlowsharing...
Read MoreGiving for the holidays
My family is greatly blessed. We have more than enough every day. More than enough food, more than enough heat, more than enough clothes, more than enough books (way more), and my writing a blog proves we have more than enough time for the essentials in life. We are Americans. And while this isn’t true about every single person in this country, it is true about the vast majority of us. Even people unable to work can be fed and sheltered through various government programs and private charities most of the time. That is something new in world history and unique to wealthy countries. In America today we feel badly for people who don’t have furniture and lots of nice clothes and toys for the kids. There are people all over the world today who are hungry, cold and...
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Well people have asked me to start a blog for a while so here goes. This will be about my journey healing my family. That encompasses a much broader range of issues than it might appear at first. I titled it Loving Our Guts because God made us and loves us and we are loving ourselves as we heal. Also as Hippocrates said “All disease begins in the gut.” The further we go in this journey the more we realize how true this is. So we are loving our guts as we heal them because that will be the source of our health. One big piece for me is local foods and I will be starting off with some posts about local meals. Sourcing local foods has many benefits. It reduces our carbon footprint. When food doesn’t take an airplane ride to get...
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