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I am loving this day.

I joined this forum in March 2005. Since then I have swung like a swing between raw vegan and green smoothie every day/and we'll just try to eat well for the rest of the day. What that means is I have been fluctuating with 20 lbs., and a lot of other things like...crummy sleep, fuzzy head, preoccupation with what food fix will it be today, and sore knees.

For the past week I have been all raw. I feel GREAT! Once again I ask myself why in the world ...

A story from "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis. I too have been approached by an angel.

There is a man carrying a red lizard on his shoulder and the lizard is always whispering in the man's ear. The man is truly annoyed with the lizard and I would say that 98% of him wants to be rid of it.

In due season the man is approached by an angel who offers to rid him of the lizard. In fact he has the power to kill it, but only with the man's permission. Now the man ...

I was just reading Green Woman and was lifted by her title. After all who doesn't want to have a fresh start and feel renewed? :)

I have been reading a lot about weakness lately in the scriptures and feel a new sense of strength as I have come to understand that I need to turn "bondage" in my case compulsive overeating to the saving grace of my brother and Savior. I have faith that He can lighten my load and I will choose to wait patiently and cheerfully for this weakness ...

"One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. One must have the courage to call a halt, to feel empty and discouraged."

--Etty Hillesum

Today that quote pretty much summed up all of January and most of February. I have been in a slump...and I knew it was coming. I did my best to head it off with exercise every day and I suppose that I would have been in the dumps in a BIG ...

"Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.

All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your nature so specially fits you for--that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole, for you. It will surely come to you.

Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed time will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of hands will ...