Food for Thought

"Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial..." (1 Corinthians 10:23)

I love chocolate. But it does not love me. We have a love/hate relationship.

I don't discriminate either. I love any type of chocolate..dark, white, milk, with nuts, without nuts, crispified, small squares, kisses. Why stop at candy? How about cakes, cookies, muffins, donuts, cupcakes? Did I mention cupcakes? No party is right without them. Well, sort of.

I have a confession to make. A few summers ago, a very good friend of mine came over with the family and a dozen cupcakes in tow. I thought they were for us to have right then and there. I won't say how much I ate, but it put me in a "sugar coma" for around 5 hours. I later found out they were part of her daughter's birthday celebration we had planned. I figured the cake was good enough..why did she need the cupcakes too??? And I only had a "few"...hmmm..not quite.

I am finding out, as I get a little (key word is little) older, that sugar has a real bad effect on the joints as well. My daughter just made a fresh cake today. You know, it's a good thing. We are trying to rid our house of all the refined products we have so we can start eating "clean". She made a devil's chocolate (properly named) cake. The smell was so sweet. And nothing like warm cake..you would be proud of me..no icing. But somehow, with only her and I at home, almost half that cake is gone. She is lookin at me, I am lookin at her. Someone did it! Wasn't me!

But now, I'm feelin' a little weird. I feel "loopy". Like I used to feel back in the day after I had a "few". I don't like this feeling. And I got up to turn the heat down and my joints hurt. Hmmm. I should not have had that warm, chocolate, sweet smelling cake. No, I am serious. I was on a "clean" streak and now I fell into my daughter's sin. Ok, it was not her fault, but she helped.

Now I am wishin I could turn back time today and just have thrown the .99 box of junk out. No wonder they call it "death by chocolate". I may not die from it, but I feel really out of control. My skin is itching. Head pounding. And my thoughts are coming to me at a rapid rate...so fast that I can't really think of what to write because there is information overload right now.


WW and SC warned me about this. They told me what sugar does to the body. I heard them. I believe them. But I thought "just a little" won't hurt. Hmmmm. I was wrong.


"Lord, help us to make right decisions. Not just with our eating, but with all the things we face daily and have to decide upon. Let us not allow our flesh to lead us. Teach us to discipline ourselves to make right choices no matter HOW GOOD the temptation looks. And Lord Jesus, this ain't just about chocolate...no, this can be about anything that would stumble us. Thank you Lord for leading us back on the path of healing. Thank you, Gentle Shepherd."

XtremeFaith