Did you have your orange today? I must confess, I didn’t. I’m still not disqualified. If you didn’t you aren’t, either. I have to snarf a few blackberries as my crisper has been holding 2 for 1! for at least one week. I’m choosing blackberries to be the pick today since it’s getting late and I need to have my fruit. I can only have so much sugar and I don’t want them to “go to waste” as my mom would say.
I had an interesting experience at coffee today. There was a reading by a new author and my heart was beating out of my skin because I disagreed with everything he said. I feel terrible for him and the man who had years earlier led him to Christ, to which at this point, he has wandered to the point of atheism. Needless to say, I got my cardio simply sitting there. Please pray for this man. That God would give him eyes to see and bring him back to the fold…
I wonder perhaps, if hypocrisy is the name of the game. The juggernaut that Satan uses to confuse and confound and incense people. Look, there is an imperfect Christian! Someone who holds a belief, but doesn’t adhere perfectly, in fact, look what he/she did today! Hypocrite! I can’t believe that!
It is an imperfect juggernaut, however, since it is irrelevant to a true walk of a true Christian. Christians who fail are not hypocrites, they are imperfect people. Falling off the path does not mean that one doesn’t adhere to the tenets of one’s faith, and seek to live as Jesus would. It means that although one may be seeking after righteousness, they fall. Sin. This is not hypocrisy, unless they typically do not wake each day endeavoring to follow Christ… Granted some of us are living in a state of hypocrisy, but I think finger pointing and labeling hyp! happens far too often. The unsaved, or those on a path of rebellion, use that to not deal with the truth themselves. It’s all too easy to blame someone else’s hypocrisy, then nulling and voiding Christianity, for one’s own wanderings– to continue in pursuit of one’s own strongholds, rather than falling once again on the altar of grace and begging for mercy and help and power in time of need. Not a good thing to do. This guy seemed nice and intelligent, just lost and antagonstic to the faith. I don’t know if ”hypocrisy” and how he views Christians he knows plays into it at all or not, it’s just a thought… Once saved, still sinner until that fine day when we are brought home.
Anyway, I wonder if that is why this guy strayed away… or perhaps he was dealing with whatever sin ensnaring him and didn’t wish to put it away. It is, after all, God who is at work in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure, that is a good thing, for in and of ourselves there is no good.
I’m thinking that bell peppers will be our vegetable each day for two weeks now. You can grill them, roast them, saute or eat raw. That will be an easy start to this segment of the diet. Buy various colours. Enjoy. I will undoubtedly be making fajitas a time or two. Boil chicken, set aside. Saute onion and portabellos, peppers… shred the chicken. Add salsa or a little sour cream and shredded cheese and sliced black olives, put in a soft tortilla and you have dinner. Or in the a.m., scramble an egg into the saute– use goat cheese this time for a variation… of course, this works well for dinner, too.
A good tasty dip is ricotta, cottage cheese, and farmer’s (soft) cheese– if you can find it– you could put cream cheese in the mix, too. Blend well and add in an envelope of Italian dressing, or some sort that is comparable from your local co-op or healthy section of the market. I don’t like the envelopes that are all sodium and MSG with preservatives to boot. Not good. This is a nice accompaniment for raw peppers and various crudites. A quick, easy breakfast, too.
Remember to eat your orange and peppers (about a small handful of slices) today.
