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I don’t know about you, but I am sick of it.
My counselor challenged me to go into a grocery store and
find an item that didn’t have something negative about it.
Apple – peal is covered in wax
Diet Soda – it has Aspartame
Organic carrots – just because it says organic doesn’t mean
they didn’t use chemicals to clean it
Milk – you are most likely allergic to the protein in dairy
Dried Fruit – the bag was not recyclable and it has
preservatives in it
Chicken – the lady behind the counter was not wearing a hair
net
Have I made my point?
To make a long story short, everything I picked up, I could
make up some reason it was bad…or at least arguably so.
I then heard this old Middle Eastern proverb and thought it
was appropriate.
“Once there was a man who worked in the fields all day. At night, the man went to his tent to rest
and recuperate for the next day’s work. He
lit a candle, sat on the floor, and took out a bowl of figs to eat. He took the first fruit and opened it only to
find a worm. He discarded that piece
outside and opened the next one. It too
had a worm inside. Each piece of fig he
opened had worm. When the bowl was over
half gone, the man had a thought. He
blew out the candle and finished the bowl.”
Sometimes it’s better to just not know. We are all fortunate enough not to have to
worry about worms in our food. But there
are lists and lists of other things to make us worry about what we are
eating. If we paid attention to all of
them, we would die of starvation.
Sometimes you just have to say, “Oh well!”, and turn off the lights of your overactive brain.
I don’t know about you, but going into a grocery store during
the Holidays is overwhelming as it is.
You definitely don’t need a bunch of negative thoughts on top of
all the overstimulation.
I know a lady who lived to be 90 years old and ate a donut and drank coffee with creamer every morning. She had no major health problems and was always in good spirits because of an incredible prayer life. I am sure she had her days, but she definitely didn't waste her time on earth worrying about heart healthy whole grains.
The honest truth; we are all going to die someday. The sooner you make peace with that fact, the sooner you will experience peace. The goal is not to live forever on this planet, but to live forever in Heaven.
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