Snacking is a Chronic Disease

I knew something was missing - more on this later - but I did not know what to do about it, until I stumbled across a documentary about juicing entitled, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. An Australian man in his early forties was carrying a lot of weight, and adding to the load daily with food and drink. He had a chronic skin condition that displayed itself all over his body, in an angry rash, and he knew he had to do something about his situation, or face an unwanted, early death. 

Joe Cross decided to start a juice fast, and he made vegetables and fruit drinkable, via a juicer he took with him everywhere he went. He committed to a sixty day juice extravaganza, and the results were extraordinary. 

Results are measurably extraordinary when they are extreme. Joe Cross was extremely overweight from extreme fast food consumption, and it took extreme measures and effort, to reverse his weight from heavy to lighter, and revamp his health condition. He had to give his body what it needs, what it requires to function optimally, and what it craves too, because fuel matters, and what we put in, affects how we live, breath, and have our being in the world. Joe was on many prescribed medications, and just like obesity, side effects from meds, can be deadly. 

Watching the documentary had me fascinated. I am a fit person, but I am also a bit of a sugar junky. I have good intentions with my diet, and when I am on a kick, I overbuy fruits and vegetables, hoping that I will stay on track and eat the recommended daily servings of both, but man alive, it is so much easier, to breakfast on toast with almond butter and a bit of jam, then to prepare veggies for a morning omelette. Veggies were the missing link to my wellness, and Joe's documentary hinted strongly at a solution, a way to include more of them, into my daily routine and into my body, to cure what ails. 

What ails you Linda? I hear you asking. Here is my list of ailments: 

Joint pain

Headaches

Muscle cramping

Disturbed sleep

Five extra pounds

Three on and off frequent flyer pounds (they come and they go and then make a return round trip)

Snacking

See the last ailment, dear one? snacking. Snacking is a chronic disease! I jest of course, but even as I attempt to take the funny out of the statement that snacking is an ailment, I cannot. Isn't it kind of humorous in a morbidly obese kind of way, to think of snacking as a sickness? Some people feel addicted to the foods they eat, and while I often resist calling anything we do an addiction, since we choose how we allotment our time, money, and energy, I can see how people get stuck in a cycle of behaviours that they do not want to be in, but have a very hard time extricating themselves from. I have vim and vigour for making healthy meals, but not all of the time... I have the time most days to prepare good for me foods, but I do not always have the interest, thus the snacking. But the snacking, dear one, does not do the body justice, does not serve the mind, the heart, or optimize functioning on a microscopic, cellular level. 

Before you run away to escape me getting all scientific, please don't go! I have no intention of discussing anything from a deeply physiological viewpoint, because that is not what interests me, nor am I inclined to do the work of a biologist: I am more of a, How does our behaviour affect our lives, kinda gal. This said, I knew some of my behaviours were negatively impacting my health, my physical wellness, and my confidence in taking control of fluctuating weight. I knew something was missing, as is commonly the case for most of us, and I discovered it was the infusion of micronutrients, after watching Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. 

So, dear one, I ordered a juicer, and I ordered a book with recipes to make juices. The juicer arrived and next, I headed to a local store for organic produce. Then, I started juicing, for me and my family. Here is what surprised me, and continues to surprise me the most: I am not hungry for most of the day. I drink vegetable with a bit of fruit juices twice a day, along with a fruit smoothie and one meal, and I am not at all interested in snacking, or sugar, or that mid afternoon coffee to keep me semi-productive. I exercise and my joints feel fantastic, and while I do cramp in the calves a bit still at night (I need to stretch), the cramps abate quickly, and don't have me shooting out of bed to stand-up until they pass. My sleep is still very disturbed and I have nighttime headaches and early morning residual headaches, but this is an indicator that I need an osteopathic treatment to realign what I have put out of place, as opposed to the awful congestion I often experienced from certain foods my body reacted to. Like Joe's chronic rash reactions to food, I have battled angry sinuses that cause headaches that make me vomitrocious, from dairy products. My sugary snacking gave me a bit of tasty and temporary satisfaction, but it was never enough, and I always wanted a little more now, or a little more later. Things are changing, and I know why. 

I didn't understand how micronutrients, fed directly into the blood stream, can act like high octane fuel. After one juice, my son was astonished and pleased with the energy boost he experienced, and I have to agree with him: he feels great, and so do I for that matter. It feels like an infusion of goodness, right into our veins, when we drink what I juice. If God made it, we ought to eat and drink it, but where can God's handiwork be found, in the majority of restaurants and grocery stores? People think produce is expensive, and I will agree, however: think of all the processed and prepared foods that come in boxes and containers, plus all the eating and drinking outside of the home, and do yourself a favour, by calculating the cost. Financially, it is less expensive to buy a juicer, a recipe book, and produce, then it is to buy from a drive through restaurant, or a grocery store, where the prices have skyrocketed for all products, that do not even remotely resemble, produce. 

You are no dummy. You already know all these things. If you have spare, extra, rolly weight in your midsection, on your thighs, arms, and anywhere else on your body, you know what is causing the gain, and dear one, if you are gaining weight, doing what you are doing, you will continue to gain weight - this makes logical sense. The beauty of design is built into our bodies by God, and when we decide to love ourselves with the food we eat, our bodies say a big Thank-You, each time. Think of revamping your diet as a form of repentance for mistreating your body, and for forcing it to work overtime, to the point of abusive exhaustion. 

You can change how you feel by changing what you consume, and from over here, I will cheer you on when you decide to do the work (it is pretty simple and easy to juice with the right equipment), with a raised glass, of micronutrient rich juice. 

You can take charge, dear one. Do your own research and be encouraged. Juicing changes lives. 

NOTE: Fast food isn't food, and it is more expensive in countless ways, than produce. 

Consistently Deceptive

People are consistently consistent. This statement, in its simplicity, seems to be an obvious kind of observation that needs not further exploration, and yet, here we are, discussing the topic. 

Do you know someone that consistently misleads, misrepresents, manipulates, and just plain old lies? What of someone that thinks white lies are acceptable, and states this frequently? Can a person like this be trusted? and if so, when? O, and what constitutes a white lie, compared to say, a glaringly obvious red lie, or a fabricated fudge coloured dark lie, or an itty bitty watered down grey lie?

I have a liar in my life, and sometimes I feel remorseful, as though I am too hard on this person, especially when they are being kind, sweet, or generous. This morning it occurred to me that this person has been consistent in their deceptive ways, and so, it makes perfect sense, that I have been guarded in mine. How can I trust seeming sincerity, when in the past, the trickster often practiced their dark arts in order to disarm and deceive me?

Lies are of the Devil, and anyone that consistently lies for their own bizarre reasons, must be considered the enemy of Truth, otherwise known, as Jesus Christ. Liars and truth tellers are incompatible, and it is sandpaper to the soul for each individual when they interact, with one pulling in the direction of destruction and the other trying to extricate themselves from the grasping and greasy grip of the maliciously minded. Liars, make no mistake, are malicious, because they are always looking for angles to take control, to change a mind, to corrupt those that resist craftiness. 

I decided to look up synonyms for deception, and here we have some words to describe what you and I see and hear, from liars:

deceit, deceptiveness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, cheating, trickery, duping, hoodwinking, chicanery, underhandedness, deviousness, slyness, cunning, craft, craftiness, wiliness, artfulness, guile, dissimulation, dissembling, bluff, bluffing, lying, pretence, artifice, treachery. 

Let us use these in a paragraph, shall we? 

The liar uses deceit, savouring the effects of their deceptiveness. It is with duplicity and double-dealing that they attempt to mislead their prey, committing fraud for material gain. With fraudulence as their front, cheating others out of what is theirs is an easy way of getting what they want without working for what they get. Trickery, duping, and hoodwinking, are employed to spin their marks round and round, to dizzy them to the point of questioning their own observations and judgments. Chicanery is a go to for deceivers, and underhandedness is employed secretly to reduce the likelihood of detection. Deviousness, with sly and cunning craftiness, mark the liar as snake like in their slow, get ready to strike slithering. Wily and artful, the liar is muse like, shameless in their guile as they seek to dissimulate, dissemble, and destroy, not only truth itself, but all confidence one might have, in The Truth. Bluffing, lying, pretence, artifice, are the tactical techniques the liar utilizes in their treachery. The liar aims to disarm and maim, the truth lover, truth teller, and those committed to charity in word and deed.

The liar is the enemy of the faithful. 

Don't feel badly for the liar in your life, dear one. Feel badly for how they so happily, so cunningly, so cheerfully, embrace their desire to trick you out of the truth; to deny you of honest communication and dealings; to corrupt your thinking so that you are confused. Feel badly for you, not them, for having to put up with their trickery, despite your many attempts to turn them toward the narrow path. Perdition is preferred by the liar, and there is nothing, I mean nothing, you can do, to unhook them from the beetle juice life they most certainly enjoy.  

Truth tellers have a very hard time comprehending the power-up thrill liars are jolted with when they practice deception, but I tell you now, you are naive if you continue to believe that you can at all, trust a liar, especially a professing liar. Believe their behaviour, and let it be. Let them be themselves, and pray for their conscience to be convicted and for God to redeem them, because you, my dear, do not have the power to convert or change anyone, and you may as well bang your head on a concrete wall, if you think you can swap out a snake for a cuddly panda bear. 

Not gonna happen. Drop naiveté on its head, and make it dead. 

The consistently deceptive, can be consistently counted on, to deceive. 

Needled to Death

A friend sent me an image, and there is a suggestion, a message on a t-shirt, that implies freedom was killed. Can, I ask you, freedom be killed? I think not - what do you think?

The message had me recalling Esau the hunter, that sold his birthright, his inheritance, for a bowl of stew. In a moment of extreme hunger, his fraternal twin brother Jacob, was able to entice Esau to forsake what was due him, by virtue of coming out of the womb first, by giving up the first born's promised privileges and portion, for a meal. 

I ask you - is this not comparable to what we have witnessed during the stupid unforgettable revolting covid era? A paycheque was worth more to people then their own self-governance, and worse yet, then their own trust in God to not only protect them, but to provide for them, if and when they refused to be tempted by tyrants to do their vile bidding. Jacob was known as a deceiver, and Fauci is pinned with this moniker: but it is self-deception that was the foul trickster that had people rushing to the point of being needled to death. 

I cut off the head of the actor in the picture I posted, that is supposedly sporting the Fauci t-shirt. The message is misleading, and is designed to point fingers, and have people playing the blame game while using a celebrity to lead the way, but there is a sinister undertone with this kind of scamming. There are doctors prescribing and nurses injecting hundreds of people, including pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and the elderly, on a daily and annual basis. Why are we leaving them out of the big picture of killing? Why are they left to their own deadly devices without being rebuked, reproached, and reported as murderers, to the police?

Why, are they free - how is it that their freedom is not curtailed for maiming and murdering? 

Fauci is one of many monsters that purposefully pushed potions and poisons onto a naive and spell bound global society, but dear one, the masses that do not know the living God, are the susceptible ones, and they are accountable for their freedom of choice, and their choosing to get injected in the first place. People found their way to injection sites, even sites set up in churches, and they insisted on everyone doing the dirty deed too, but they were wrong, dead wrong, to go along with a diabolical plan, and for suggesting others do as they did, by subjecting themselves to this heinous and huge, self-betrayal. 

Regret marks those that know now what they did not understand or see in the early 2020's... the shots maim, they kill, they destroy lives and families, and it is not Fauci's fault, if perfect strangers, followed the little troll's convoluted mixed messages, and took to the needle.

Anger is generated when wicked people say wicked things, and it is helplessness and deep sorrow for what we have given up or lost, that has us fuming mad sometimes... it is weeping and calling out to God for help that heals though, and at this point, prayer is required, and is the most powerful balm for the soul that we can engage, and have ministered to us. 

Let us start now, our prayer without ceasing.

Luciferian's

Dedicated to their dying and killing fetish, Luciferian's stop at nothing when obeying their masochistic master. A death culture pervades in our society, and yet, encoded in each human being, is a strong will to live. With vanity reigning and ruling in hearts, many deem life pointless, if they cannot live in a form or state of copy-cat perfection. Trapped in bodies that are never good enough, despite working beautifully; trapped with faces that reflect the yuck they feel inside, despite being lovely to look at, many a human is distorting themselves, and it is a sign that they are no where near, to knowing who they are, according to the Maker. 

Trends come and go, but what does one do with a face and body that has been pinched, poked, prodded, and plumped, with pinchers and needles and redistributed fat, to increase butt or boob size, or add a youthful look to lips and cheeks? Back to the question: What does one do when the effects start to fail, and the face and body begin to morph into something alien, distorted, and eventually, unrecognizable? And what about the tattooing of lips, eye-lids, eye-brows, whole arms, and private parts, with in the moment fancies, that do not fade away over time, but instead, become grotesque reminders of a moment in life that required deep meditative thought and emotional processing, rather than marking the body with permanent ink that records pain, or ideals that no longer ring true for a person? 

The urge to live is so strong, people fight to stay alive, but Satan wants people to hate themselves, hate their life, hate their shortcomings and missteps. Satan wants everyone to compare themselves to others, and question their own worth, whereas God, wants us to be honest, kind, compassionate, and loving, firstly with ourselves, and next with our neighbour: love you neighbour as yourself is a commandment. And all those missteps and shortcomings? They are part of a life that includes choices that did not pan out with the best results, and God is more than capable of equipping us to walk a straight path, and also, to work on our character so that we emulate Christ, and not faulty misguided human beings. 

Luciferian's know who they serve, but the majority of people that haven't committed to Christ, will be led, and are led, this way and that. by the Devil's divas and hirelings. The Devil is barbarous in his cruelty, and his devotees are too. The self-tortured try desperately to remain relevant, as the saying goes, but we are all fading flowers, and our best before date arrives quicker than we expect! 

Look again at the picture included in this piece of writing. These are but a few of the "in crowd" that have made their way onto the headlines, in a most unflattering manner and light. They have altered their looks to be seen as more appealing, or is this true? Who, exactly, do they want to look like, I ask you?

The light of God shines brightly in the eyes and faces of those that love the Lord. The darkness has taken over these former babes and beauties, and they reflect the dim within. 

Unfortunately, the trends are turning, as the marketers continually shift and shaft to make more money, but the damage has been done, and some things, dear one, cannot be reversed... some things, are permanent. 

Ozempic or anorexia? 

I say for best skeletal results, these misguided women, have utilized a combination of methodologies to transform themselves into hard to look at, creepy waif like, creatures of the night. 

Some things, are permanent. 

Muscle Testing

I have the recipe, and I am at the grocery store. All ingredients are purchased, except for one: noodles, the kind of noodles that come in a single serve package with spices in a sachet to sprinkle, when the noodles are cooked. 

I pick up the package and as I hold it in my hands, my temples begin to throb to the point of feeling like my brains are going to blow out of my head casing. Okay, I say to myself, Not that one. I pick up another brand, and holding this one, gets the pulsating and pumping in my temples started, and in short order, I put this one back on the shelf. I decide to try one more time, but I feel so physically repulsed that I am hesitant, and disinclined to go through the process yet again. The recipe, I say to myself, Requires this noodle, uncooked, to add some crunch to the salad: Do I forgo this ingredient? I pick up one more package, and it takes me less than a second to place it back where it belongs, on the shelf, dangerously inedible. 

Have you had an upset stomach from something you ate? What about a headache after something you drank? Does it sound crazy to you to learn that your body will warn you of danger, before consumption? Maybe you already know that dairy products churn your innards, or cause head congestion. Perhaps you understand that brushing zebra grass with your bare arm, can make that arm itchy, and that dog dander, or just plain old dust, makes your eyes red and runny. If it affects your outside, dear one, what about the inside of you?

Again I ask you: Does it sound crazy to you to learn that your body will warn you of danger, before consumption?

There is an expression, once burned, twice shy, and it is applicable to individual physical experiences, and human interactions. If you put your hand on a hot stove and burn yourself, you will be shy, or reticent, about ever doing that again. If you have experienced the burn of betrayal in friendship, you will be hesitant, one would hope, in trusting that person in the future. The once burned lesson, is a good one, for injury prevention, if you heed the warning, to be shy of repeating actions that have wounded in the past. 

It took me a long while to acknowledge that I can't do whatever I want. This sentence seems so juvenile, that I chuckle as I continue to write. I really cannot have Baskin & Robbins chocolate mousse royal, or cheese on my burger, pasta, salad etc. Correction: I actually can have these dairy products, if I want to guarantee myself a massive headache, that has me immobilized for an entire day, for fear of movement that results in extreme nausea and vomiting. I learned the hard way what dairy does to my body, and while I see others not suffering the way I do, I have learned that I cannot pretend this time, if there is a next time, will be different, for me. 

I say all of the above to tell you this: Your body knows what is good for you, before the item ever touches your fingertips, your lips, tongue, throat, stomach. You know too, don't you dear one, what is bad, and what is good, for you. Look at yourself, and look around you: you know who listens and heeds warnings, and you can see with your own eyes, those that ignore and dismiss, the alarm bells that sound, prior to them eating what they eat, touching what they touch, and engaging in activities that they ought to steer clear, far, and away from. Your body is you, and your are your body, and there must be an understanding, that what you do inside your shell, impacts every atom that makes you up, and the very essence of who you are. This is why people suffer from low self-esteem, cognitive dissonance, and a lack of a solid sense of integrity, because they betray themselves when they go against what is good and right for their own well-being. 

I presume you can sense when your spouse, child, best friend, or co-worker, is happy, sad, tense, anxious, overwhelmed, irritated. You can read these moods and emotions just by being near. Now transfer this knowing to all of your experiences, including selecting what to eat. Read the room, and read your self, and you will become aware that there is so much going on that requires your attention, prior to making your decisions, decisions that may be life altering, that it behooves you to perk up when your senses are firing warning shots to grab your gaze. 

In modern lingo, there are woke people and awake people. The Bible Author wants sleepers to arise. The Bible talks about the blind seeing and the deaf hearing. The Bible mentions the lame walking, and leaping for joy, but none of this is possible without conscientious, concerted, and consistent effort. We cannot coast to the finish line of life: we must bound with bounce in our steps, and this means we have to be accountable on many fronts, here are a few: 

• What you eat and drink brightens or darkens your countenance and disposition
• How much you move affects your weight, joints, organs etc
• Who you spend time with impacts your mental health
• What you do with your spare time is telltale about what is important to you
• What you think about most of the day indicates what you value most

Pay attention, and you will learn so much about yourself and what is beneficial; alternatively, when you are honest in your self-assessment, you will admit that some of what you think and do, and some of the people you spend time with, aren't very good for you at all. 

I will end with this message to you, dear one: 

Your body knows. Your body whispers, Help me, then raises its voice, I am suffering, and eventually, it will shout, STOP IT RIGHT NOW! I am going to break. 

Heed, and I pray you good health. 

Premeditated Murder

Where to start, where to start...

Kasia Smutniak is the actress that was cast to play the role of Mary, in the movie The Resurrection of the Christ. Interesting... Kasia is brazen with her opinions regarding abortion, and it is social media public knowledge, what her stance is when it comes to the non-sanctity of life. 

So, playing the mother of God, playing the role of Mary as Jesus' mother, while also telling the world that she is all for abortion, isn't an cryptic message to the viewing audience, that if she could, she would, destroy the Saviour, if she found herself burdened with an unwanted pregnancy? Do I extrapolate here, you ask? Why yes, yes I most certainly do. I suspect and suggest, that Kasia is a Luciferian, indoctrinated in the ways of the wicked one, and that she hates God, with every fibre of her being. 

It occurs to me that if someone is committed to aborting a baby prior to being impregnated, it is a form of premeditated murder; promoting this as a choice and option for other women, is working as an accomplice to a crime, a plan that will be activated if circumstances arise that are untenable and distasteful for the pregnant person, perhaps even a fifteen year old girl? ( I think of the approximated age of Mary, when she was blessed as a virgin, to be pregnant with the Son of the Most High, and that she would name the baby Jesus). Imagine a baby being thought of as utterly unwanted: have you held a baby, perhaps your own, in your arms, with adoration pouring forth from your eyes, your hands, your heart? Would you take the place of your child, if you had to choose between them living, or you living?

Helliwood is the place where anything goes. It occurs to me that Kasia was chosen to send a message to all that take to the side of Christ and life eternal, that Satan's workers of iniquity have no shame, no fear of God's just wrath, no worries about retribution, or real fallout, for blatantly mocking and thumbing their noses at the Sovereign. It is a form of encouragement to all that want to live according to the Devil's demands to win his pleasure promises, to be up front and offensive with all things that demean and destroy humanity. The spiritual warfare gauntlet has been thrown down, and the battle ensues with the mortal enemies of our souls. Mel Gibson is a blasphemer, and clearly appreciates the dual role Kasia plays as Mary the mother of the Saviour, that has utter hate in her heart for Christ, when she displays her stance on abortion publicly. This is a twisted situation meant to play mind games with audiences; should we be at all surprised, given the wickedness that ushers forth from the stages and sets known as Hollywood? 

Kasia is in a precarious position to say the least, and Mel Gibson bloodied his hands with filthy lucre, while putting this cast and production together. I am cringing over the entire situation, and praying these people see how damning their actions are, before it is too late. Perhaps it is already too late for those that are hell bent on going against their own Maker, without hesitation or caution. 

Repentance is... Man alive I am having a hard time imagining any of them being repentant, confessing their sins, and publicly declaring their heinous crimes. They are publicly violating the teachings of Christ, and it would seem only appropriate and acceptable, to come clean publicly if it just so happened, that their eyes were opened and their ears could hear, the Author of Life convicting them and converting them too. Am I fantasizing over a pipe-dream?

Lord help us all, it would appear that the situation is dire on many fronts, and since we are called to pray for the enemies of God and for the lost, that is what I will do for these people that toy and tamper with what is holy, righteous, and sacred. 

God help them, they need it. 

You Want It - Pay

O, how I like what I have heard!

Cash, in the currency of life, is king, and this is the subject of our conversation today. 

While some companies, for example, Dave's Hot Chicken, have decided that cash is not acceptable at the till, despite money being legal tender, other companies prefer cash payment from customers. Think with me now. The banks that issue credit cards, love the interest they soak card holders for, when the card holder does not pay their monthly balance in full. Retailers that want you to use credit, have to absorb the cost of fees attached, each time you ring in your order and pay with plastic... or do they? Listen to me now: the customer, the patron, the guy or gal doing the buying, always has to pay for the extras, because the add on fees, get added onto the cost of the products, blended in as it were, and don't you know this to be true, dear one, with the constantly rising costs of every little thing?  

Who is making all the money without lifting a finger, earning a cent, or paying an exorbitant amount of cash for watermelons and steaks? My answer, and perhaps I heard your similar response to this question, is the credit card issuers and bankers. These clever fellas are benefiting in buckets of filthy lucre via usury; they figured out long ago, how to pick-pocket unsuspecting marks that want now, what they cannot afford. Eventually, what should have been paid for with cash, is paid for in a low, and in some cases a high grade, of feverish anxiety, that shadow boxes the indebted, throughout their waking hours, and haunts them into their sleepless nights. Owing money, and for many, enormous amounts of money, can cause stress induced headaches, bouts of irritation and self-recrimination, interrupt thoughts making a person ineffective at work, and worse yet, destroy communication with a spouse, along with negatively impacting interactions with playful children that are just too rambunctious for the overwhelmed person, that feels crushed under the burden of constant, unremitting debt. 

Since bankruptcy and things like consumer proposals are available to the debt laden, there is in the back of many minds, an out, that grants them a reprieve from repaying, for all they have wantonly purchased. I will state this and then we will move on: The Bible makes clear, Thou shalt not steal. If you buy what you cannot afford, pay interest on said item or items, and never really reach the bottom of the pit of debt you have dug for yourself, then you are a thief, taking what is not yours, because you simply could not, can not, afford the item. This puts you in a pickle of a problem, and does it make sense, to be anxious when you owe, considering the price your conscience, your soul pays, for having in your possession, what does not belong to you outright? 

Think now with me, about people putting on their credit cards, fast food purchases, and the interest they pay for their food, over and over again, and how so many people are getting bigger, while their ability to accumulate a safety net of funds, diminishes each day they do not pay, for what they have consumed. Does this cycle sound and look familiar to you, either in your own life, or the life of people you know? Money is such a touchy subject for most people, but it is because they aren't good with the money they have, meaning, they are not conscientious when they consider the when, where, and how, of spending, saving, tithing. People that have a grasp of how money works effectively, are usually very happy to share their wisdom with anyone that wants to learn the ways of wealth accumulation and management. This said, I want to share with you now, the reason for this piece of writing today. 

There is a new trend that I am thrilled to see coming into play, and it is small business owners that have initiated an old fashioned way of doing business! As an entrepreneur. I never fell into the trap of offering clients the option of paying for services via credit card, and I have always received payment in cash, cheque, or e-transfer format, with no fees attached for my clients, or for me, which means the greedy paws of the middle-men, do not touch what is not theirs. I went to a restaurant years ago and when the bill came, the waitress told my friend and me that there was a 10% discount if we paid cash! I loved this so much, and now I am hearing that small business owners are telling patrons that they, the customer, will be charged the credit card fee if they pay with plastic... YAY, it is about time, dear one. Why should an entrepreneur, have to absorb the cost of fees, and in turn hike up their prices, in order to accommodate banks, and clients or customers, that may or may not, be payment problems? In other words, when people purchase via credit, never pay off their debt, then declare bankruptcy, or are permitted to pay less then what they owe, we all have to pay more for what we buy. Someone has to pay for the losses, and it is always the customer that takes the hit, no matter what marketers are pushing when they advertise that they price match, or have the lowest prices in town. 

If you want something, you ought to feel obligated to pay for it. Does this sound strange to you? The you want it, you got it mentality, is wrong, wrong, wrong. You cannot have everything you want, in fact some of the things you want, may be the very worst things for you to have, and who among us does not have buyers remorse and purchase regret, for some of the small, and rather large expenditures, that have cost us some angst. 

Dave's Hot Chicken is some of the best fast food I have ever eaten. I was surprised and disappointed when after I ordered food, I was told they do not take cash for payment. This ought to be illegal, and yet, those of us in the know, understand the push to eliminate legal tender from the hands of people that have earned their money. Cash is purchasing power, and the wanna-be-powers-that-be, do not want you and I to have the ability to make our own decisions with our own money. This said, it is the mark of the beast that they want you and I to agree to, in the form of a chip placed under the skin in our hands or foreheads, so we can barcode pay for our lives while being scanned, processed, counted, corralled, and controlled cattle like, by handlers that want to treat us like their chattel. 

If this sounds dramatic and a little too dystopian to you, then you are already behind the curve, and need to do some current events catching up. 

Cash is king when it comes to purchasing power, and the more we believe this and live according to rules of buying what we can afford and saying no to instant gratification that we can never fully pay for, the better off we will be as a society. One last thing: if you make a lot of money, and got the cv shot because your job was threatened, and because you knew you would not be able to sustain the lifestyle you had plastic purchased for yourself and your family prior to the planned panic of all things cv, then you are in a precarious position moving forward dear one. You must decide that your autonomy, your ability to make your own financial decisions, is separate from what your bank, your employer, and the government, wants you to do. 

Pay for your life, dear one, or you will pay with it, when push comes to shove and your resistance is too low for you to fight back. 

NOTE: The Bible is full of wealth wisdom. Go there for a most excellent education.