Clean Food For Thought

I've talked to so many different people about clean foods (Leviticus 11) and have heard repeatedly, "But   ___insert_unclean_food_here___   tastes so good!"

Turkey is very cheap.  I don't know how it compares to pork because I usually distractedly rush past that section when I am shopping but considering a pound of ground turkey is ONE THIRD the cost of a pound of hamburger and about ONE FIFTH the cost of the fancier "ground beef," I feel comfortable calling it "affordable."

I just made an AMAZING pizza out of a cheese Digorno with turkey pepperoni and turkey sausage.  I had to pepper the sausage and mist the pepperoni with olive oil (Turkey is dryer than the P word).  But it came out better than I remember.

If you crisp turkey bacon in the oven (mist with olive oil when rotating), it tastes JUST LIKE BACON.

I make egg rolls with ground turkey and when I add the tiniest bit of sriracha and sweet chili sauce to my cream cheese wontons, crab rangoons become a distant memory.

Pork Chops, Smork Chops.  I cooked so many of those damned (literally) things as a Gentile (and no, the past tense of that statement does not immediately deem me Jewish)... All I need now is a chicken thigh filet or a good juicy TURKEY tenderloin and I can easily season a fry that will leave your mouth equally as pleased as your stomach and digestive system.

Beef polka kielbasa.  Beef hot dogs.  Angus beef hot dogs. YUMMMM Add some vegetarian baked beans for a familiar twist.

I may work a little harder for my food, but it pleases The Most Holy One and I'm ingesting LITERALLY 100+ less toxins (and who knows how much less fat, cholesterol, and even sodium) than when I ate unclean.  Pork carries an estimated 100 viruses a year over from China (Google it), IMMEDIATELY making following the Bible 100% more effective than any one vaccine...

Unbeknownst to most of today's society,  sacrifices of the Old Testament also often resulted in cooked meat for food (not too much unlike what you probably had for dinner tonight) for the congregation or for the priest and/or his family that he couldn't work to provide for because he spent all of HIS (interesting sidenote) time being a priest for Yah.  A search of my phone's Bible of "for a sweet savour" in conjunction with the scent of sacrifices returned 27 results UNTO Yahveh.  

When I would cook bacon or BBQ at my old job,  I couldn't help but think of Aaron's sons in Leviticus 10:1-3 as the thick, greasy aroma would fill the air.

Just a little food for thought. ;)

No Miracles

My mom used to tell me, "Coincidence is God acting anonymously."

He is not anonymous, there is no coincidence.  Though, coincidentally, calling Yah (YHVH, Yahweh, the Lord, THE Almighty, Our Father Who Art) Generic God with a capital G and crediting His blessings to coincidence do render Him somewhat anonymous in the world today.

"I was really lucky to find money in the dryer."  No, I was blessed.

"Look at those beautiful fall leaves, I love Mother Nature."  There is no mother nature, Our Father is the "Father of Lights" (James/Yakov 1:17).  We are taught as children that the actual definition of color is, according to Merriam Webster, "a phenomenon of light."  Yahveh Elohim (Almighty) FATHERED the color of the autumn leaves and PUT US HERE TO SEE IT.  How do you think He feels when we thank "Mother Nature"?

COINCIDENTALLY that other thing more commonly attributed to "Mother Nature"?  Yah CREATED it so we could bring forth real live beautiful little people from our bodies that are little more than dust...

"Thank goodness I didn't get pulled over when I didn't have my wallet!" HalaluYah!

"Thank Heavens. " Thank the Creator of the Heavens.

From childhood, we're taught to look to Horoscopes (I'm a Pisces), to Numbers (lucky #7 which also COINCIDENTALLY is the number of completion in scripture....), Santa Claus, and Dear Abbey for direction, luck, answers, and rewards.

The best thing I've ever done in life is ditch all of the self-help books in exchange for THE BOOK (The King James Bible).  To no longer leave my life to chance or "the hand I've been dealt," but to learn to give thanks in everything (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

I stopped to see the miracles.