Our vacation was wonderful; we did everything we wanted to do and much more!!! We did a lot of sightseeing and shopping and the food was simply marvelous. Amish pork and sauerkraut for supper and biscuits with sausage gravy for breakfast every day...WOW!!! Then we went to New Jersey and the pork roll egg and cheese on a hard roll was to die for!!! My oldest daughter put together one of the best Shrimp dinners I can remember and that seafood dip was wonderful. After three weeks of this I expected to gain weight and I did (5 lbs.). I am gradually getting used to my former weight watchers diet again but frankly I miss my Northern "comfort food". I guess food is what you make it and how you think about things REALLY DOES AFFECT YOUR LIFE. This applies in the spiritual realm as well as this passage from the book of Matthew shows...
Matthew, Chapter 13
1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. 2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. 3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "“Behold, a farmer went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. 7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”"
10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered them, "“To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
‘By hearing you will hear,
and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive:
15 for this people’s heart has grown callous,
their ears are dull of hearing,
they have closed their eyes;
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and should turn again;
and I would heal them.’
10 The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered them, "“To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
‘By hearing you will hear,
and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive:
15 for this people’s heart has grown callous,
their ears are dull of hearing,
they have closed their eyes;
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their heart,
and should turn again;
and I would heal them.’
You can believe whatever you want to about weight loss, but we all know that how we shower does not change anything (except removing dirt, of course). Likewise, you can believe anything you want about God, but if you don't listen to him with an unbiased open heart it won't do you any good!!! That's the point of the scripture and if we really understand it, our lives will be changed for the better!!! Beware though, reading your Bible can be like stepping on a scale after a three week vacation... SHOCKING!!!