the spiritual diet of words

It's only day two, but already I feel better. Over a month of contemplating about my diet: high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, lots of sugar, and all the preservatives thrown in, all this daily ingesting of stuff and how it's possible these things could short-circuit my body, did I finally do some thing about it.

After eating last week's caramel, buttered popcorn and had my fill of cakes, and diet coke and my favorite artificially sweetened waters, did I feel prepared to start. And this is where I'm at. I'm not fanatical when it comes to whole foods, in fact, I'm a reformed microwave-er, still in need of work.

And somehow, just taking that first step, the mental health of finally doing something seems to make it feel better, whether or not my body is actually better or not.

But it's all those preservatives and chemically altered additives which has me thinking. How our spiritual live is infused in this way, finding altered acts of worship through artificial, man-made means outside the truest Organic way.

I've wondered how high-fructose corn syrup really does trigger an unquenchable sweet in my body causing me to heap spoon-fulls on a pancake. Versus the real, organic maple syrup which satisfies with each little drop.

Hidden deep inside molecular breakdowns, my body works in secret those items digested. In the quiet recess is a work in progress, artificial or not.

And what a joy to find Organic eaters who worship with their words. Ingesting alphabets and letters and wholesome praise, reminds me of how Organic we need our spiritual life. Freed from artificial sweeteners which are only cheap substitutes of His sweet fragrance.

Words have been quietly feeding me. And who knows the working of praise inside our innermost parts than the Source who feeds it? This spiritual nutrient of Organic worship and us feeding eachother from the same source which feeds our stomach, our lips.

"If a writer only has information to offer that he has obtained by research, I will pass on him. Give me the writer who has the passion and fire of God in his soul, which flows onto the page." ~~A.W. Tozer "The Purpose of Man, Designed to Worship" (compiled & edited by James L. Snyder)

And so I've been on a diet of more than wholesome foods but also being feed by wholly adoration of all that's wholesome. A nutrition at the top of any food pyramid, an inner-working of worshipping words going down, digesting, circulating to vessels, limbs, through Blood to blood.

What a benefit is this Organic praise done in the secret, that my own words have been few and far while feasting and feeding the inner workings of spiritual hunger.

The stomach breaks down food under folds of skin and muscle, unseen, like worshipping words digested inside fleshy hearts do hidden works. How when we praise Him together, our words brings us to the Fruit of all our hunger.

Reading worship on a page by another writer, a corporate praise, hearts joining the same song, swallowing down spiritual lyrics as the Body nourishes the body.  And worldly preservatives won't do, those of religious works, or entertainment, or artificial additives which keep us hunger but never really satisfy. It's this spiritual diet of words, of feasting together on the true Organic source.

At Ann's.