Ketogenic Diet Can Help Improve Autoimmune Diseases: Current Studies https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/health/ketogenic-diet-can-help-improve-autoimmune-diseases-current-studies_5141993.html?utm_source=andshare
Here’s a blip from Article
A systematic review of studies finds overwhelming evidence dating back to the 1990s, that the ketogenic diet is effective to treat drug-resistant epilepsy. Later, it became a popular weight loss diet.
26°F cloudy @14mph
Morning Offering given
Village in deep sleep (of course it is as it is really 3:30AM)
Coffee strong, I’ll need it to be this early in the morning
WHERE DOES YOUR STRENGTH COME FROM?
When gloom and doom seem to drop out of the sky, when everything you have always planned and prayed for seems to go awry; where does the strength to go on come from for you?
Do you try to go it alone? Do you rely on your spouse or friends to carry you? Perhaps you expect others to make it right for you. Perhaps you go into depression, anxiety, or simply retreat from the world.
30 years ago we were in the midst of family turmoil, someone place a card on my windshield it said:
Shari,
this is GOD.
I got it handled.
Trust me.
Go enjoy the day,
“knowing”
I have it handled.
Know you are loved.
GOD
I carried that card for many years.
Check out Daniel Chapter 3 particularly verses 91-95.
Know you are prayed for.
It was fun, brought back the good Ole days but it’s time for it to find another home.
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151,000 miles
Dark green & camel
Good tires, brakes, no rust
No boot cover… is available to order
Broken speaker cover in passenger door. Speaker works fine. Cover can be ordered online.
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1. a small insectivorous mammal resembling a mouse with a long pointed snout and tiny eyes.
2. a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman.
Within the past few weeks, we’ve caught 2 shrews moving swiftly around the baseboards. They scurry, stop, assess the situation, and quickly move on to the next point. Interesting to watch.
In past years, I’ve read/watched “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare.
Both have something in common. 1. are considered undesirables. 2. are sought after, one for physical death, the other for characteristic death. 3. Neither are seen unless they invade a space they are not welcome in. 4. each has purpose even if we can not define what that purpose is.
So how/why/what does that have to do with this blog?
I enjoy a bit of sleuthing, skulking (stealthfully not furtively) on the edges, due to my being a K.O.O.K.(keeper of odd knowledge) rather than a busy body.
I have been known on occasion to be a bit bad tempered, assertive, and aggressive. So, in essence, the “shrew” fits me in many ways.
I have no idea who did this particular pencil sketch. If you happen to know I’d be happy to give credit where credit is due.
24°F clear WNW@12mph
Morning Offering given
Village peaceful
Coffee good
One copy job to do today. The labels came in yesterday’s mail. Quick service from Online Labels.com. I will use their maestro label designer later today to see how easy it is.
Nice visit with my sister-in-law and two nieces yesterday morning. They saved me from having to use a portable. This time of year portables are umm, less than pleasant. For those who have no clue regarding my subject; image 1 is a portable, and image 2 is an outhouse. The portable tank is generally frozen, graphic, and disgusting during the winter and generally very hard to keep clean/or emptied. Most of the Amish businesses have them and keep them fairly decent for use throughout the entire year. The portable company charges approximately 50/week or 200/month for these little items, the suggested change out is weekly. That doesn’t happen in the winter, for that matter in the summer either. The outhouse on the other hand is permanent. Here in Wisconsin, you are required to place it on a concrete holding tank (new ones) that has been certified by your county inspector. However, there are structures that have been in use for years/centuries with simply a pit under them that is emptied as needed. The one I grew up with was emptied/ limed as needed. We called it “The White House”. In polite conversation, you can ask where the “necessary” is.
Although the above discussion isn’t “over breakfast” talk, it is important for us to think about it. Not in the physical world but in our spiritual world.
We “ALL” carry with us daily things (sins) that would be better deposited elsewhere. We have it directly from Christ in John 8:23, 24 ” 23 And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.” what happens if we continue to live with our sins instead of ridding ourselves of them.
Now some of you go on and on about how judgemental this is of me and how I should not be judging others. Here is what scripture tells me about judging persons. It tells me I cannot know a person’s heart. It tells me I will be judged by God with the same measure I judge others. It tells me that if a person believes, he is not judged, and if he doesn’t believe he has already been judged.
1 Samuel 16:7, 7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
Matthew 7:1-2, 1 Judge not, that you may not be judged, 2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
John 3:18 tell us 18 He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.“
It is true that I do not know your heart I can, however, see your actions, which then lead to my deciding if it is detrimental to my salvation to continue associating with you.
My salvation isn’t a once-and-done thing. It is a living, breathing, daily decision-making way of life. Frankly, as much as I love and care about you, I cannot and will not sacrifice my salvation so that you can feel better about continuing to live in your sin. My door is always open. I am always willing to listen.
Know you are prayed for.
Ouch, ouch, ouch… those massive ones that clamp on, take your breath away, and make you sob in pain.
The ones that are so bad you say to your spouse, don’t touch that leg, get away from it, or else.
The ones that creep up on you in the middle of the night after you’ve turned onto your side and flexed your big toe, just a minute fraction.
Those, yep, those.
Do you know what causes them? Me neither.
Any clue on how to get rid of them forever? Uh-huh, me either.
I’m searching the web, and it seems not enough fluid in your body can bring them on. Seems lots of things can bring them on. I just want to know how to get RID of it.
Send me some answers. I’m already drinking water, eating bananas, no alcohol, and no/low sugar.
23°F clouds NNW@7mph
Morning Offering given
Village quiet
Coffee, should have been tea as first choice
The man still sleeps, glad for that, once again he did too much yesterday
Typical Monday happening for me today. Hope to be home by 5 or sooner. Heard Madison got a 10″ snow dump, weatherman says snow is possible here Tuesday, hopefully it will go around us,my tulips are coming up and I’d love to see them this year.
The photo below are daffodils for my friend Mary, who mentioned them a while back.
Happy Birthday to my eldest son, Michael. WOW! that went by fast…see you later in the week.
Today in scripture, we reading about Jesus writing in the dirt. John 8:8…lots of speculation about what exactly he did write that caused all those stone throwers to drop them and disappear. My focus is what this did for Mary Magdalene. There she was, standing with a circle of holy men wanting to throw stones at her. Jesus steps into her life, and she stands waiting for condemnation… poof! …that is all it takes… Jesus makes a difference. After, mind you, after the threat of death has left, Jesus then says, “sin no more.” Simply stop doing what you were doing, and from this day forward, don’t do it again.
All she had to do was “stop” the sin period. Start a new way of living. She already knew it would be hard. She already knew the road ahead would take time, energy, pain, heartache, and more. She made one step after another moving forward with Jesus to make that change. She didn’t deny she had a past, she didn’t pretend the past wasn’t there. She simply moved forward. That was/is faith. Each of us can do this with our focus on Christ.
Know you are prayed for.
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