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Luciana Miles
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Month: July 2023
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Daily Bible Readings
Matthew 17-20
Verse of note:
“…Woe to the world because of snares! For there must be snares, but woe to the person who sets the snare!”
Vegan Spaghetti Salad
It’s hot, which pretty much means it’s spaghetti salad time.
Daily Bible Readings
Matthew 13-16
Verse of note:
“…For anyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have plenty; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away…”
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
“Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots…”
Daily Bible Readings
Matthew 9-12
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
…”From the time of Yochanan the Immerser until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been suffering violence; yes, violent ones are trying to snatch it away. For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied until Yochanan.”
Verse of note:
“…Well, the proof of wisdom is in the actions it produces.”
Verse of note:
“…If you knew what ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifice’ meant, you would not condemn the innocent…”
Verse of note:
“…Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken; for by your own words you will be acquitted, and by your own words you will be condemned.”
Daily Bible Readings
Matthew 5-8
Verse of note:
“…But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, makes her an adulteress; and that anyone who marries a divorcee commits adultery…”
Verse of note:
“…Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
Verse of note:
“…And when you pray, don’t babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot…”
Verse of note:
“…For where your wealth is, there your heart will be also…”
Verse of note:
“…Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to his life?…”
Verse of note:
“So don’t be anxious, asking, ‘What will we eat?,’ ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘How will we be clothed?’ For it is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things…”
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that sums up the teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.”
Daily Bible Readings
Matthew 1-4
Evening edit:
Verse of note:
“…If you have really turned from your sins to God, produce fruit that will prove it!…”
Vegan Nicoise Salad
This was very impromptu, so not only did I not have all the ingredients but I had to substitute quite a few things—still delicious.
Painting Peeks
Personal Care Items & Beauty Products
Most companies’ products today that are sold go a little like this (especially if they’re not clean/organic):
- Take something from nature
- Manipulate it until it no longer functions as it’s supposed to either with additional man-made substances or by manipulating the original material
- Add man-made chemicals, formulations, preservatives, and substances that do the exact opposite of what the product says it’s going to do
- Sell it back to you using the natural botanicals as a selling point as well as “expert” co-signing.
What you end up with:
A product with water as the first ingredient (this is correct, water is THE moisturizing agent), some oils, and at least 1-5 ingredients that do the exact opposite of the purpose of the formulation.
Not only that but they sell you stuff that you can either get yourself without the middleman and without the extra man-made stuff (in other words the product will do what it’s supposed to do) and/or things you can go get in the backyard or grow yourself.
And lastly you end up paying these companies for the pleasure of them either not fixing your problem and/or making your problem worse.
An example: Most skin products have at least 3-5 drying ingredients. Think about this in terms of anti-aging. A lack of moisture can lead to wrinkles. You buy an anti-wrinkle cream and while it may have some kind of material (usually from nature) that helps with wrinkles (probably by adding moisture) it also has 5 drying ingredients. So things may look superficially better (but they’re not) or it doesn’t work at all. Regardless, using this product the problem remains the same, and it never truly resolves itself.
Most companies are middlemen. Most experts are there to sell you their products.
You would be better off drinking water, buying some cold-pressed olive oil (or another kind of properly extracted oil) and some essential oil and calling it a day. Everything will do what it is designed to do with no middleman manipulating and adding things to either keep you buying their products or keep your problem from being fixed, or both.
This goes for lotions, beauty products, hair products, toothpastes, deodorants, all of these products. This also goes for products for men and women.
Get rid of the middlemen.
And if you don’t know what the ingredient is, 9 times out of 10 it’s something that will counteract the good ingredients in the product, thereby keeping your issue, the problem you’re trying to resolve, unresolved.
I do not exaggerate.
Sidebar: Most times when it comes to what goes in and on your body, YOU are the expert. With a little research and a little time you will know what’s best for you and your body and know more than at least 75% of experts. Why? How? Because your only concern is what is best for YOU. You have no other agenda. All “experts” have agendas and/or have learned from people who do, without exception. This goes for everyone from the companies to the doctors to the beauty/wellness/health blogs to the small mom blogger whose experiments you follow on social media. Don’t ever forget: You know best.