Everyday Celebrations

Everyday is a celebration to be alive, and I am truly thankful for that.  Whether you are celebrating your life or someone else's, it is important to remember how you celebrate.  Celebrations can include lots of people, friends, family, and sometimes people you don't know.  And of course, there is a lot of yummy celebration food and drink, laughs, and everyone leaves feeling a bit more connected.  This is a great part of life to embrace, especially our relationships with others.

But what might not be so great is to have this kind of food everyday/every meal.  This is what the Standard American Diet (SAD) has become.... celebration foods every day.  In America today, our rate of obesity and preventable disease has skyrocketed.  We spend a huge amount of money spent on healthcare.

Here is something I heard recently (obviously I did not live back then, but it seems to make sense). Back in the older days gone by the celebration dinners and foods took place only a few times a year when the common people got together for celebrating.   The more well off people who could afford such foods on a regular basis decided this would be a yummy way to eat, everyday and potentially every meal.  The preventable sickness, started creeping in. It is probably a good thing the rich who ate this way could afford a doctor, cause now they were needing more and more of these services.  The common folk who ate more simply most of the time were a lot leaner and healthier.  Even in the Bible, when the Israelites followed what God decreed, they would not have the diseases of the Egyptians. (Exodus 15:26)
Have you ever noticed the pictures of the old Kings and Queens?  Kinda resembles us today ...

Proverbs 23:1 - 3  - When you sit to dine with a ruler,  note well what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

It is good to celebrate our relationships everyday, encourage and affirm those in our life, and be connected to them.    But we shouldn't celebrate with heavy, rich, comfort foods everyday or in a lot of cases every meal.  This will lead to the preventable diseases of Kings and Queens.

So 'lettuce' eat more simply day to day. (I couldn't resist. smile.)