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“Ordinarily, we eat and drink simply as fuel to enable us to keep going with our work. Ordinarily, we work, not just to earn a living, but to find satisfaction and purpose and to make a reputation for ourselves and to achieve success. What if the pleasure of food is a daily joy that we ungratefully overlook? What if our work was never intended to make a successful, but simply to make us faithful and generous?”

Putting this one on my nightstand for a bedtime read. 🌙

“Change and constancy are the two balancing weights on the see-saw of human experience, and God has given humanity the means to enjoy both of them by patterning the world with rhythm. We love the fact that springtime feels new; we love the fact that it is springtime again. And the devil goes to work right at this point.”

“Safety tested used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have relied on short-term animal models that were designed to detect whether the additive had a fast-acting toxic effect, whether it heightened the risk of cancer, or both. None of these short-term tests are able to inform us about the possible detrimental effects of such additives on long-term brain health.” 😵‍💫

On the chapter about the gut-brain axis and blowing my miiiind

“While our hunter-gathers ancestors ate up to five hundred different local roots, herbs, and other plants in a year, a typical modern diet includes seventeen different agricultural crops at most. It is not surprising that our gut has a few problems with a dietary change of that scale.”

Keeping a reading light and a book in Forrest’s room in place of my phone has allowed me to soar through this book during this round of teething. 🙌🏻

“Brother Lawrence wasn’t surprised by the amount of sin and unhappiness in the world. Rather, he wondered why there wasn’t more, considering the extremes to which the enemy is capable of going. He said he prayed about it, but because he knew God could rectify the situation in a moment if he will it, he didn’t allow himself to become greatly concerned.”

“It is in the community of God’s people where God’s visible work begins.”

This book is overwhelmingly important. I’m learning so much, but also I feel affirmed in my intuitive concern for fast fashion culture.

“Caring about food is not bad. But God finds more value in what we feed the heart than what we feed the stomach. Food’s ability to heal and nourish our bodies after the fall is limited. But Christ can fully heal both the body and the spirit for eternity.”