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Baby Steps

Part II

Hello again. How many of you read our last article, Baby Steps? How many of you said to yourself, ‘You know self? This article relates to me and I do need to take something that I do in excess and try to cut back gradually.’ How many of you did make a small change? Congratulations! Thank you! It’s not that bad is it? The small steps will turn into big ones, confident ones, significant ones.

It comes from the Bible, and it comes from the heart (your spiritual heart). If we could just find ourselves again for just a moment or two everyday. We would however, have to turn off the television, or the radio; we would have to turn off the phones, the PDA, the computer. We would have nothing around us but space and God. It takes that inner spirit or inner peace to communicate with the original nature of our existence. It is really very difficult to connect with our spiritual self when we are toxic; meaning in all environments; emotional/mental, physical, and spiritual. This is the truth.

How many of us really love ourselves first? Ask yourself that question only if able to honestly answer it completely. In order to Love God, we must love ourselves; for we are directly connected to Him through creation. We are all God’s children. He is our Creator and He is our Guide. Every good thing comes from God, and God created every good thing on this earth. How have we allowed social industry to become our pseudo-god? In asking how much we love ourselves, it is purely in the relationship between ourselves and our Creator, whom created us for His Purpose.

I have noticed one consistency in my ethnic culture about food, we get defensive when chastised about our eating habits. To some extent, done justifiably; however the truth of the matter is we have been generationally cursed by our social existence in the United States. Please sit down, I am not throwing darts at us. I know how people can get rallied up in there are too many people ‘telling me what to do’ rather than ‘people offering a solution, or at least helping provide choices’. FWAACA is the latter. We certainly are not boasting that we know it all, nor are we in the appearance of; however, how many doctors do we visit that smoke themselves? How many bankers do not have financial problems? How many leaders cannot follow?

Today, in economics we are in a very detrimental pinch in making sound decisions about what to put on our tables. We can barely drive to the market let alone pay the utilities, mortgages, rents, car payments, insurance payments, furnish our children with activities outside of academia and please don’t let there be an unexpected…!!! Food prices are at an all-time high right now, which forces us to uncontrollably pick up the cereal-filled, white flour, refined sugars, stressed out animal parts, etc., for choices in our grocery basket walking right past the produce section because you fit into categories of 1) can’t afford; 2) can’t trust; 3) can’t cook; 4) can’t understand. And what is worse is that we are being misled by food labels and endorsements that these things are safe, nutritious, and economical – okay, perhaps economical but at what price? The price we pay now, or the price we pay later?

I know that this is more rhetoric than scientific, however it would be very difficult to work it all into the space provided for this article. Therefore, we invite you to our website: www.fwaaca.com, which will host an assortment of information to guide you on your personal journey to figure out what works best for you. Every household is facing different circumstances. I have always been the first one to ’shun’ the ‘one-size fits all’ concept (partly because I was never able to fit them!). My point however is that I hope you walk away from any of these writings with a sincere urge to find out more about how to help yourself. The information is out there, the challenge is, how (or when) we obtain it.

Until next time.