Mourning Snack

I've decided to get crazy and do my juice cleanse again.  Let's be honest.  I'm not cleansing my body of anything but fat.  The last time I did this "cleanse" was in October.  I can hardly believe it has been almost a year.  This also marks how long it has been since I've had soda - caffeinated most specifically.  There was the time I had some root beer and another time I tried to drink some ginger ale and a couple of punch recipes with sprite.  I can count the number that I consumed those on one hand.

I was supposed to start this juicing diet on Monday, but stuff kept getting in my way.  Namely.  Food. I cracked down today and got serious because there is no way I'm going to try and do this once seminary starts - I need my brain!

This is what my life looked like this morning.  This was my mid-morning "snack."  I was definitely mourning in the morning over this snack.  It is actually one of the better juice combinations, so it wasn't too bad - other than I was pretty hungry at this point.  

How does one distract themselves from the lack of literal food?  By partaking of some spiritual food.  I finally sat down to start sifting thru all the resources avail for seminary teachers.  I decided to start with the "new teacher" set of vids.  I gotta say, I've been getting spoiled on well produced productions and this little system was a little technologically sad.  But, so was my juice, so it was ok.  Plus, the content was anything but sad.  Can I just say in the most humble and stripped of pride way that I'm gonna rock this year if I master the concepts in those vids!

 Who knows how productive I'm going to be once the school year starts.  Projects like canning garbanzo beans (chickpeas) may become a thing of the past.   I had that big 'ole bag of dried beans to can, so I figured that while I am sitting home starving, I might as well get some canning done.  As I've mentioned before, you are tied to your house while you are canning until it's done.  

So, while having a morning snack and canning some food for the lean years, I was filling up my spiritual food stores to get me thru this year of seminary by learning my role in the Lord's work and how to effectively teach by the spirit.  

Hummus anyone?  Perhaps some juice?