To prove my point, I would like to invite you into our “medicine” cabinet. (Just be sure to stay out of the closets! Ha ha! 😉) I took this shot just a few minutes ago. (Yes, that is a cow on top!… when you live in a barn, barnyard animals become decorative accessories. ) I didn’t remove anything or move anything around- just opened the door and snapped the picture. In it you will find the following items:
- home-made tooth paste (subject of an upcoming post soon!)
- 2 bottles of cinnamon and peppermint oil I use in the above mentioned tooth paste
- Tubes of natural chap-stick
- dental floss
- a digital thermometer that the batteries have long run out on. (I was going to replace them and decided that would be a waste of money since we never use the thing.)
- contact lens cases and solutions for Louis
- retainer- think this one is Louis’ but don’t see him using it much 😉
- some ear cleaning stuff for our son Trevor who wears hearing aids (read on our “about us” page on the website if you are interested to know the story of how he lost his hearing.)
- and a little flash light I put in there in case we needed to be up in the middle of the night pilfering through the medicine cabinet in the dark and won’t have to turn in the big bright bathroom lights. Also never used and probably full of dead batteries.
Notice anything missing from our “medicine” cabinet? Here’s a hint… this is what most American’s medicine cabinet looks like….
Full of all manner of pills and potions… whether prescription or over-the-counter…..all supposedly to ‘improve’ your health or ‘cure’ whatever ailments or sicknesses you might be suffering with. Maybe I should change the name of our cabinet in the bathroom to something else since it does not contain ANY of these items…. there is no “medicine” in it! No aspirin or Tylenol, no Pepto, no Tums, Benadryl or cough medicines, nothing for runny noses or fevers. Why? Because we haven’t needed any of these items for years! And, NO prescription drugs to be found either!! Most people our age already find themselves on at least a couple, if not a handful, of prescriptions the doctors tell them they will be taking the rest of their lives….. and the list just seems to get longer and longer as time goes on.
Once we changed our diet and some other things in our lives to avoid toxins, we have not needed any of these items. Louis used to get terrible sinus headaches and kept sinus relief medication here at home and at work to use when he needed them for relief. Once we started learning and omitting things from our diet that God never intended for us to consume… and one particular ‘food’ that that has been drilled into our heads since grade school that we NEED to be healthy…. He hasn’t needed any sinus headache medication since. No more upset stomachs, no more heart burn, aches and pains, etc. No need wasting any more $$$ on these items … or space in the ‘medicine’ cabinet any more.
There have only been a couple of times I have had an ever-so-slight headache (probably from working too long on the computer)… and we have discovered better, more natural, less harmful, more in-line with God’s design and use items to get even better results! Instant headache relief, treatments for burns, insect bites, poison ivy itch and even over-used or strained/pulled muscles, etc. One such example is using essential oils… did you know they are talked about in the Bible?!! Another topic we will be diving into soon! Other natural options would include homeopathics, herbs and even FOOD itself! Did you know that Hypocrites, who is known as ‘The Father of Modern Medicine’ is quoted as saying “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”?!
I could not tell you the last time I have been to a doctor. I can tell you the last time any of us was truly “sick”. It was about 13 years ago when we moved into our newly built home, but this “illness” was not caused by a virus or any other bug.… have you ever heard of “new building sickness”? I can tell you it is REAL! (But, we’ll save that discussion for another day! Do a search it if you can’t wait!) And, had we not been in as good of health as we were, I can tell you we would have been a lot worse off! Environmental toxins can wreak havoc on your health and your home can be filled with literally 100s of substances that are toxic to your body! Topics for more discussion coming soon as well!
It is possible to live life in a healthy manner and not have to worry about almost all of the common illnesses and diseases facing so many in our modern-day society. Although they keep researching and telling us there is no cure for the common cold- I can tell you that there is indeed! I can show you testimonies of 1,000s of people who haven’t had so much as a cold for over 30+ years and even longer! And, even more amazing than that- testimonies of healing from all types and forms of cancer, diabetes (see our testimonials page on the website!), lupus, arthritis, fibromyalgia, leukemia, MS, and the list goes on and on even right down to dandruff, indigestion, acne and heartburn!
Want to learn more?? Stay tuned as we bring you useful information, articles, research, great recipes and other fun stuff to help you be healthy and live life to the fullest! God’s desire is for us to be healthy! As it says in 3 John 1:2, “I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in HEALTH, as I know that it is well with your soul.” Come and join us we learn how to put the principles God provided in his word for our health into practice to live a long, healthy and happy life – just as He planned for us!!
*Added note – I am expecting the “medicine” cabinet to grow even more empty in the future. Louis has worn contacts and glasses for about as long as I have known him. Over the past few years, his prescription has been decreasing – his eyesight is actually IMPROVING -NOT getting worse with age as they will tell you is normal!…. much to the utter amazement of his eye doctor who has never seen anything like this happen before! But, we know why… and Louis explained it to him. So, hopefully soon, we can rid the cabinet of all the contact lens stuff too! I have read testimonies of others who have been able to throw their glasses and contacts away as well!
Maybe someone out there can give us some ideas of what we can fill our empty “medicine” cabinet with!
Healthiest blessings to you all!
Shawn
