Not well.

There I was, standing at the counter to hand my purchase and my money over, when the young lass on the other side, cheerfully said ”And How are you today? “ So I cheerfully replied, "Not too bad thanks!”
Then I wondered to myself, “Well that was both a stupid question by her, and an equally stupid, not too mention, incorrect answer by me.” After all, if I were well, would I be in a Chemist (Pharmacy/Apothecary) paying good money for medication for myself?
Yes, silly indeed, but how often do we all answer blithely and without thinking, the questions of others? Even to the point of saying, all is well, even when it is obviously not?
Just a little reminder to all here, and especially myself, that next time, before I speak, I stop, think and mean what I say! Will you try that too? Good for you!

Comparing God to A Diet.

I hate to compare God to a diet, but it seems that a lot of people treat God a bit the way they do diets at times, doesn’t it? We become overweight and suffer from it and are put on a strict diet, which achieves the desired, required goal, but then!!!!!!!!!
Then, we decide, well now that I am down to the required weight I can go off the diet can’t I? Oh yes, at first we will not stray too far from the diet, but. But before long we are back to our old eating habits aren’t we?
Now as I said above, I don’t like comparing God to a diet, but for many of us, we do treat God the same way we treat diets don’t we? Good for when we need them but unnecessary the rest of the time. Well that may be how we treat God, but that is not how it is meant to be. And like when we break our diets and go back to our old ways, the problems return don’t they? So it pays in the long run for us all to stick to our diets of healthy living in the first place, doesn’t it? And the same is true for our relationship with God too. It is far healthier for us to continue to walk in God’s path, or if you like, in God’s diet, for you now, rather than pay the consequences later, isn’t it?

Knowledge has Changed, But Has Your Habits?

There are many things today that used to be quite common but have either been banned or strongly discouraged on health and Mental grounds as more knowledge about their side effects or long term effects.

Many of our current banned drugs like opium, (previously used in some cough medications) ecstasy, (for couples with relationship problems) and Heroin (used for patients with cancer), used to be legal and used for medical reasons, but of course are no longer so.

Would it shock you if I were to tell you that if you were born before 1953, then your mother could have used Heroin? Particularly In the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne who used it regularly for women in childbirth, right up to it’s Banning in 1953.

Now these are just some of the more notable things that were once commonly used but as our knowledge of the side effects and there misuse has grown, we have changed our usage of them for safer things. Some other things we are still working through that process with, like, Smoking and drinking strong alcohol to excess. Both of which are currently coming under more and more scrutiny for those very reasons aren’t they? Maybe one day they will be like some other Drugs and habits of the past to be rejected from normal usage on health grounds.

But moving away from the drugs for the moment, what about some other “normal” things in your life today?

When it comes to the drugs mentioned above, none of them were harmful when used for the right purpose and in the right proportions. Most drugs have essentially not changed, but our use and abuse of them has altered, hasn’t it? And the same can be said about many other things including many of the foods we eat.

If we eat a well balanced and varied diet along with reasonable exercise, we will largely have no major problems, but if we “Pig out" Constantly on one or two types of food only, we will end up either starving ourselves to death or becoming so obese that people will have to dismantle parts of the walls just to get you out of your house to the hospital, as has happened recently.

So this is just a simple word of encouragement to you to eat and live healthily and happily by using everything for the proper purpose and in the proper way and not to do anything to excess, but to do all things in moderation. What say you?