We took the first drink... My family and I made the Mean Green juice recipe today! I LOVED the aroma of green apples, lemon, fresh ginger, celery and so on. I found myself excited at the idea of opening a fresh-juice kitchen or to garden as a lifestyle. It was that wonderful! I'm very thankful for a husband who presses me to try life-giving endeavors like this!
We prepared the kids, boys, ages 7 & 9 by watching the documentary
Dying to Have Known. Similar to
Fat Sick & Nearly Dead in that it shows the benies of eating "green" as well as all the other colors of the rainbow, but, is different in that
the premise is to prove or disprove the Gerson Method for curing cancer. This had the nine-year-old's attention. He tried the apple-lemonade and loved it! Not-so-much for the seven-year-old "I
only eat (fill-in-the-blank-on-any-given-day)" kid. "To each his own" and "Rome wasn't built in a day!"
Then came the trip to the new Dunkin' Doughnuts. We live in a very small town, one that just opened a Dunkin Doughnuts. No Starbucks for 30 miles in
any direction. (Now you know I'm on a mission from God, right?! I've proven that a citified woman can live without Starbucks. For heaven's sake, even my language has assimilated to the culture! "Citified!")
Ahem, feeling so good after my fresh juice, I headed to Dunkin Doughnuts to get some research accomplished. Dear friends and owners of a national engineering firm have asked me to do some writing for their website! My mind is aflutter with quippy-quips! "What goes up, must come down" Naaaahhh. NOT for a civil-structural engineer's website! As soon as I sat down I met the nicest older couple and low-and-behold, the husband was a chemist and patent attorney for Dow Chemical, among other nameable companies, in the 60's. He shared a remarkable story of working conditions in a lab where the scientists had liver problems and were dying. (Remember the movie Erin Brokovich?!) ...How when he walked outside his place of work, the pollution in the air was so thick it burned his eyes...And how
"the men in suits would walk in and out of the lab very quickly."
As we drank our free coffee and yes, even ate doughnuts as we visited I could not help but question what happens to those who cannot choose a different career, those who cannot go back to college? That makes me thankful to oversee my kids' education. But ultimately, my hope is not in what I teach, or eat, or not. My hope, if built on the foundation of my efforts, will be like a ball in the air. What goes up must come down. I pray that my hope will be in a sovereign God, in his plans and purposes that exceed my ideals and my life span. Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Ora et Labora. Work and Pray!
Or eat wisely and pray? Love graciously and pray. Think about the goodness of God all around and in new friends at a coffee shop. God is calling. Let us be found listening!
The Book of John, Chapter 1, verses 1 through 4
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men."
Soli Deo Gloria! ~K. De La Cruz
