Day 13 of the Master Cleanse

What a wonderful day it has been today. On the Sabbath we always are lazy and today was no exception. Although I still have quite a bit of pain in my shoulder, where I fell when the steer attacked me, it is lessening. Many thanks to those who sent prayers and/or sessions. What a joyous thing it is to be a part of the family of God AND a part of the BodyTalk community. I loved our phone visit this afternoon, Ellen!! You already are the sister that I have been missing for sooooooo long! It's absolutely great to see how the Lord is blossoming you too!!!
This afternoon we sang for about 45 minutes and then listened to another one of Pastor S. M Davis's videos. It was exceptionally good and I recommend his teaching pretty much universally. We differ on the Sabbath and the our views of prophecy but, other than that, our Baptist background lines up pretty well with his teachings. We can tell that he loves the Lord and sticks closely to the Bible so he has blessed us greatly. We listened to his video, HOW TO DEAL WITH DISCOURAGMENT and the timing was perfect.
Later, after the family was finished playing games and I tore myself away from Ellen's phone call, we watched the movie FRANKENSTEER. Our guys had seen it several years ago at the organic convention and wanted to buy it. We had found it for sale at several places onlinebut the lowest price was $80. Somewhere Andrew found it and downloaded it and we were thankful to save the money. I'll tell you, I had heard that FRANKENSTEER was an eye-opener but I was not prepared for what I heard. Now I understand why Jacob at the age of 10, after seeing it, told me, "Mom, I don't ever want to eat any corporation meat again." He meant it too as he's very seldom even thought about going out to eat or buying meat from the store since then. It made me soooooooooooo thankful for the rich abundance of organic beef that we eat every day.
Now, speaking of eating. It was VERY difficult for me to pop the popcorn tonight knowing that I would have not one kernal. I think that this was the most difficult experience yet on the cleanse. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE POPCORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last week I had thought that I'd be able to have some this week because I hadn't decided yet to go the extra 5 days then. So I thought about what Raylen had written on his blog about temptations to eat. I saw the big red stop sign that he had posted in his e-book and I put my name in there. IT HELPED. So I survived another day on the cleanse without eating solid food. YEAH DAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just became aware that the home school bill will be discussed in the House education committee first thing Monday morning in Bismarck. That's 60 miles away so we are debating about going. Then, I realized that this meeting will be held on the last day of the cleanse. I'm glad now that I extended it for the 5 days because I have noticed many times that the Lord takes note when we fast. Several times He has done miracles for us when I fasted. Now I'm praying that He will move our legislators to reduce the requirements for home schooling by passing this bill. ND is the ONLY state in the nation that requires more than a high school education for parents to teach their children. It's about time that changed. Please be in prayer too. Our strict home school law is keeping wonderful people from coming here and THAT is NOT good for our state. I'll let you know how it turns out as another one of my purposes for this blog is to help folks to realize that we need to protect our freedoms while there is time.