Eating well has been a challenging conundrum for most of my life. I studied food in college, earning a Bachelor of Science in dietetics, but gained no degree of change in feeding myself. My twisted thoughts concerning food remained.
I do not have a great success story to relay even yet. I still struggle a little, but less often. Whatever success I have seen in this area has come by remembering who I am in God, who He made me to be. In mind, in spirit, in personality, in my strengths and limitations, and in my body. When I do this, the knots loosen and I breath easier. I think the “knots” come from an unwillingness to accept God’s ways. I create gnarls and complications in my life when I separate from God and believe, even momentarily, that my ways are better than His.
He created me and this body. What if I cherished it as the blessing it is and did not entertain for one moment changing it in any way. He has provided wholesome food for me. What if I cherished that as the blessing it is and did not entertain eating all the other nonsense they call “food”?
When I focus and simplify my life to embrace only God’s ways and His blessings, He releases me from unhealthy entanglements and I learn to honor the straight path to His freedom.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3
Meeting God at the Park 