There’s been so much going on in my little world lately. I just learned that I will be doing a regular monthly cooking segment on Good Things Utah and I’m loving sharing recipes and what I’ve learned with my readers and friends here on Food L’amor! All this on top of a healthy, busy family has made me feel so grateful and more motivated. I find myself wanting to stop and tuck myself away in a quiet corner to read an inspired book or two, listen to inspired speakers, and meditate on my own thoughts. I’ve come to better understand some powerful things lately…
Food for one. Food is powerful! On a molecular level we literally are what we eat. Each system in the body is connected and interdependent on the others for growth, maintenance and renewal. And it all begins with what we put into our mouths. I witnessed the power and effect of the gluten my daughter was eating before the doctors knew she was experiencing a celiac crisis. I’ve felt and seen the difference in myself since cutting out all the over-processed foods from my own diet. I’ve discovered that how one chooses to treat the body day in and day out can ultimately result in how well and how long a life can be. Aside from outside factors, the day by day choices of what is put into the body and if it’s exercised or not will yield a constant result. Just like falling off a roof will always result in hitting the ground. The laws that govern our bodies are just as sure. Food is powerful!
My second realization is that women are powerful! Not in the “I can do or be anything” kind of powerful. I’m not initiating a discussion on equality or a battle of the sexes. I believe there are divine characteristic that are specific to men and women. Women seem to have an natural compass that points North. A magnetism. Almost like a gravitational pull that can (if she is in tune with it) keep herself, her husband, her children, her friends, all centered on what’s most important. The influence and insight a good woman can provide is immeasurable and not because she can do or be anything, but because she doesn’t have to in order to have her influence felt.
E.T. Sullivan wrote in his book The Treasure Chest, “When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn’t stir up earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts, Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home out of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.” And I might add, the woman who took the time to cultivate herself enough to respond to her inner compass and the whisperings of the spirit. Women are powerful!
These two powerful forces have been on my mind lately and have led me to a decision that I had originally determined to put off for later. I’m going back to school! (Insert excited, anxious cringe). I put off finishing my degree when we started our family because I knew then what I still know now – that a mother’s influence on her children is vital not only to the child, but to the society in which that child must grow to be part of. However, now with so many more options for online programs I’ve suddenly found that I can do both…slowly…I’ll be taking it nice and slow so I can be sure to keep that internal compass pointed due North and everything in balance.
Besides, Nutrition Communication sounds like a perfect fit for me don’t you think? Aside from my own personal accomplishment and growth, hopefully I’ll be able to learn new and better ways to make the healthy, gluten free food I love and then share it with all of you! It’s a win-win!
How many of you have attempted an undergraduate program with young kids? Any tips or good advice? I’ll need it!
Thanks for your support everyone! Watch Good Things Utah August 4th and 29th for some new, yummy, gluten free goodies and as always check back often for lots of {gluten free love} by Melissa!
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