[Youngman speaks:] > This is the sabbath day, and how refreshing it has been! It is a > beautiful day outside. I went out in a grassy area with trees and sat > on a bench and read, prayed, and marvelled at the birds as the flew > from tree to tree. Last night, I had a dream that I was witnessing to > a person I've never met before. I went through various verses with the > individual, and when I woke up, I realized the different verses I need > to know references to that I don't at present. I don't usually > remember my dreams, but I had two other interesting dreams last night > as well. > > I was able to pray about college and preaching (I want to tell people > about the Gospel). They need to hear it--the true gospel--and they need to hear it from an anointed, consecrated individual. > Then I watched the "Sweet Suicide" documentary. > Very interesting! I knew already sugar caused a lot of health > problems, but I didn't realize how good it is to cut it out of one's > diet completely. The only thing I disagree with is that they listed > honey with the other sugars. I know from the Bible that it is a good > thing to eat sufficient amounts of honey. Yes, we did not receive that either about the honey. For me, given my history, I have to watch honey because of concupisence, not because it is delicious, sweet to the taste, and energy giving. I did not know about all the health consequences of sugar and how it affects the system--but I did know that it was addictive. I once told Hannah, "I'm hooked." Yet, a few years ago, I told my sister-in-law, "I don't really care for sweets." I have an idea about what happened. A very powerful portion of the documentary was when they showed the tribesman from foot to head. His body looked the way a man's body is supposed to look--look at any tribal people and see it. It is good to have to grow and find and hunt your food. It is good to have your own bees and be limited to the honey that they provide you and not have access to unlimited gallons of honey, bread, etc. Aside: I don't know if you've heard about it, but the little pygmy people in Africa are not doing well. People in Africa enslave them considering them close to monkeys while others (on both sides of a war) will eat them. Whole tribes are disappearing. > But I can't get organic foods here on campus, or other healthy foods > from the nearby grocery stores. I looked up and found a farmer market > 6 miles away. But I really want to grow some vegetables here in a pot. > It is not in my heart to be here at college any more. I want to buy > some land and be able to raise some of my own food, work with my > hands, and know how to build a dwelling. That sounds good. I have a picture hanging in the revelation room that I purchased from the thrift store It is a scene of a peaceful home situation near (in my mind) a clean water source. A swan is floating on the lake. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and if he wants me to have it, I will. Now, it's as if I have to prove that it (growing your own food) can be done in the midst of these industrial conditions. As I may have mentioned, I read the website of a family of four that grew all their own food on 1/20th of an acre. I have more space than that. It's a matter of learning the secrets of the ground, the laws that rule it. There was no man to till the ground. Tilling and mixing the ground is fundamental to gardening. School is about to be back in session for us. I felt the summer went by much too quickly this year--but Hannah has proved to me that she needs to get back to school. We are very interested in medicine, but not corrupted pharmaceutical medicine. Perhaps when she graduates from high school we'll enroll in a CNA course to get some additional information on the daily care of invalids. A study of geriatrics is in order because one day I will be old if God grants me a long life. Yet is it my desire to retain my strength until my last breath. I want all my faculties. I have adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) now. We study everything that happens to us. It's the same idea as studying the trees in your own yard. Goodbye for now. Mephibosheth