Luciana Miles
a blog.
Month: September 2023
Chamomile Calendula Oil
Pickled Red Onions & Jalapeños
With my pickled red onions I don’t add anything extra to the vinegar. No sugar or anything. At most I might add a pinch of salt and they’re still delicious to me. This is the first time I’ve done the red onions and jalapeños together, so we’ll see how that goes.
Green Juice
Daily Bible Readings
Luke 21-24
Verse of note:
“But keep watch on yourselves, or your hearts will become dulled by carousing, drunkenness and the worries of everyday living,…”
Evening edit:
“Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day; and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim…”
Sesame Garlic Broccoletti With Butter Lettuce Salad & Toast
Physical Manifestation
*I’m really not sure I want to post this (right now or at all) but it keeps popping up in my head so I’m going to go ahead and do it.
The physical/natural is a reminder and manifestation of the spiritual. An example: sex is not just about procreation, nor is it about pleasure. Sex is the physical manifestation of the spiritual oneness of you and the person that is for you.
In the beginning man and woman were one. Woman came out of man. When woman was created and physically separated out from man to be his help and his companion, they were put back together in oneness (to their original form, to the spiritual reality), “Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.”
Sex is the physical manifestation of this spiritual truth. It’s the reason that sex is one of the first things to go in unhappy marriages or rough patches in marriages. It’s also the reason that a lack of sex can ruin a marriage. If that physical manifestation is not there, which at it’s most important level is the physical manifestation and a reminder to you of the spiritual truth of your oneness with your husband/wife, things get off course and off track. It is not on earth as it is in heaven.
This was just one example but all things follow this order.
Another: the spiritual reality is that you came into this world loving the Father, obedient to the Father, of the Father. The spiritual reality is that you love the Father and are obedient to the Father. But without the physical manifestation of this love you get farther and farther away from this spiritual truth. You are farther and farther away from the original form (dust & the breath of the Father). Once again it is not on earth as it is in heaven.
What is the physical manifestation of your love for the Father? Obedience, following the Father’s commandments (all of them) and walking in The Way of the Lord. Again, Obedience. There is no other physical manifestation of your love for the Father. You cannot praise or worship your way out of obedience, but if you are obedient and you follow his commandments you will naturally praise and worship the Lord.
Without obedience, without following His commandments, without physical manifestation, you are lost.
This is how we have pastors teaching doctrine so far from the Biblical truth, dead churches, low church attendance, corruption etc. The leaders of the church are teaching lies because they live one. They live divorced from the spiritual reality and the reason they live divorced from the spiritual reality/the spiritual truth is because there is no physical manifestation, or there is part physical manifestation-which is lukewarm. (Part physical manifestation is still divorced from the spiritual truth, there’s either the truth or it’s a lie, there is no in between.)
Yahushua was the perfect example of this and THE example for us. Not only as lovers of the Father but also as sons and daughters of the Most High (We are also sons and daughters of God). He is the physical manifestation of this spiritual truth.
He followed ALL of God’s commandments. He was obedient. I didn’t say he followed the doctrines or traditions of the time, rabbinic or otherwise, this is not the same thing as following all of God’s commandments. He shows us what love of the Father looks like. He WALKED in spiritual truth, which is THE truth (not a “doormat”, not “fire & brimstone”, but TRUTH pleasant and unpleasant).
You cannot separate the physical manifestation from the spiritual truth/the spiritual reality. They are the same. If there is no physical manifestation, if you are not following His commandments, you are living divorced from reality, you are living a lie, which is why you can be led astray. Once again it is not on earth as it is in heaven.
Sweet Brussel Sprouts With Spicy Fennel & Thyme Yellow Rice
So I had a taste for some yellow rice. I hadn’t had it in a really long time. I searched for it in the grocery store and most of the ingredients in all of the options were less than desirable.
Lo and behold I read this article in Bon Appétit and felt like my yellow rice prayers had just been answered. I didn’t have fried onions (was going to substitute onion powder but was out of that as well), so just used turmeric, minced garlic, and black pepper. It might not be the traditional yellow rice recipe but it was delicious.
Next time I will include the onion powder or fried onions and I will use vegetable broth instead of water and see if that makes it even better.
After it was done I threw in a little fresh thyme and paired it with some sweet brussel sprouts and spicy fennel. Yum.
Hops & Beer
Did you know hops reduces men’s libido? Apparently, in the past (possibly also in the future, meaning right now), it was given to men to encourage or promote a reduced libido. Hops is also the main ingredient in beer. Hops is also a powerful phytoestrogen, which means it increases estrogen in the body.
The more you know.
*Beer bellies.
Comforting Cacao Elixir
I was in need of something comforting and delicious, something that would make me feel a bit better. So inspired by Healing Kitchen, I decided to make an elixir.
First, I simmered calendula, chamomile, & rose petals in almond milk for a bit. Then I strained it and poured the liquid into a blender with some cacao, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut oil, dates, a pinch of salt, and a bit of agave, and blended it. I topped it with a few more rose petals et voilà. It did the trick.
Purple Cabbage Steaks & Marinated Kale Salad With Shaved Fennel & Roasted Green Tomatoes
So good.