First of all... yes it has been a while. And honestly this may not be
a regular thing. I just need somewhere to write my thoughts and unload
what's going on inside my brain... and heart.
What does Proverbs 31 have to do with Crohn's? Let's back up a bit... I'll try to make this as brief as possible..
A few months ago my Crohn's was kicking back up. Once or twice a month, I would have a day where I would be in so much pain everything in me wanted to curl up and lay in bed all day... like someone was twisting my insides. It would go away though and I would feel great the next day.
To speed things up, I went to my doctor, swallowed a camera, camera got stuck, had 2 x-rays, silly camera didn't want to come out, eventually it must have, symptoms got worse, I don't eat a whole lot, my doctor didn't like what she saw, said it was worse, ulcers in many spots, narrowing of intestines, my medication wasn't cuttin' it, bring on the steroid, I needed something stronger...
Sounds like a few years ago, I know. And nothing changed with how I felt about that dreaded medication. I still had no peace.
This was about a month and a half ago. Since then I have been on a search for anything besides the medication. I've looked into diets, natural remedies, talked to people, emailed people, read books and I think I'm on to something.
I'm not going to go into it too much or even try to explain it, but basically our bodies were not created to eat or digest the foods that our modern-day society has to offer. God did not design us that way. He designed us to eat what He created for us to eat... sounds simple. My disease, I believe, has everything to do with what I eat. And, I can tell when I eat something bad or unnatural it triggers my body to flare up against it.
After researching a lot and praying, we, Jeff and I, are going to take a totally different approach on the way we eat. It only makes sense. We put garbage in and that's pretty much how I would feel... like garbage.
So we are going to start The Maker's Diet... it's a lifestyle, a refreshing and actually biblical way of living. It's not just about food but our life and how we chose to live it each day. 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." Our goal in everything is to honor God and bring Him glory. What we eat is part of that. And God has something to say about what we eat, which is what the whole diet is about (Leviticus 11).
So, tomorrow we are going to start. It's a 40 day challenge (and then continuing it for life), broken up into 3 phases with 2 weeks for each. (You can get more details on the website). But the first 2 weeks are for cleansing and detox. To rid our bodies of the nasty it's been subject to, and to decrease inflammation and put our insulin levels back on track. It should be interesting, proabably a little hard, but so worth it to try and bring healing to my body. That's my prayer.
So what does any of this have to do with Proverbs 31? Well, this wasn't as brief as I thought so this might have to be a 2-parter. Because I really want to write about what I believe God is revealing to me though His awesome word.
