My Real Food anniversary

I've been wearing glasses since I was in first grade. I got contact lenses for the first time when I was 16. I remember being so amazed at how much clearer everything was, and I didn't have those blurry spots that went beyond the frames of my glasses. Everything was clear, everywhere I looked.

In a figurative sense, I've been feeling like this recently. I've been doing tons of reading about health; books, blogs, articles, whatever I can get my hands on. Not only that but I've recently had somewhat of a spiritual re-awakening that I cannot separate from my health journey. They go hand-in-hand. Everywhere I look, everything is clear. Everything is making sense and fitting together.

I really gave myself over to this way of eating about a year ago, when I visited the Amish farm where we get most of our food from. The farmer hosts a customer appreciation day once a year. I was mostly on the real food bandwagon when I went to the farm last year, but I had not had the epiphany I needed until I saw the farm and met the farmer and his family. There was something about the Amish people and something about the food that made everything click in my mind. Everything seemed clear.

I had been feeling the need to be closer to God, and in the Amish I saw an amazing closeness. Of course we can all worship in different ways and call it different things, but isn't the spirit behind it always the same? I saw in them the pure pleasure they got from doing what they considered to be God's calling for them. All the work they do is blessed and is a blessing to God. Nothing was more clear than that, and I realized the importance of following the natural order that God intended.

So this was sort of my anniversary. I visited the farm again this year, exactly a year later. I am much more involved in my food sources and I am much closer to God, but I also know how much further I still have to go. It's inspiring. It feels so wonderful to be eating food in its most natural state, the way God intended. I can literally feel my health improving, which I have never experienced before. I want to do all that I can to continue living this way and helping others live this way and eat this way. I can't imagine any other way to live now.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Genesis 1:27-29