Hi Health minded Friends,

Thanks for opening the Note today. I hope you are all doing well in spirit, mind, and body. You may find this Note just a little different from most, or it may seem just the usual crazy mind of the author.

Please enjoy!

“OH, The Webs We Weave in Life”

Once upon a time, there was a lush, fertile land where three rivers came together (No, it was not Pittsburgh). In fact, it was four rivers come think of it. The property was plum full of fruit trees and veggies, organic to the tee. There were no houses or bridges or cars or trucks. The air was not just clean, it was perfectly pure. The place was not a town or a village or a county or country. It was a garden, the most incredible garden anyone has ever seen, called Eden.

Two people lived in Eden. You might say they were the richest folks on earth. They were the only folks on earth at that moment in history. They, you could say, owned the earth. You probably remember their names, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve lived in a land so wonderful, that they didn’t need a house. They didn’t even need clothes. There weren’t any stores or malls or farmers markets to buy anything anyway, or charge cards to buy with. They didn’t even need a last name. The weather was nice……all the time!

Over Eden, above the sky, was a realm called Heaven, where God lived with His Son. His Son wasn’t officially named yet. You might know Him (I hope so) as Jesus, the Christ. But let us not get ahead of ourselves.

Every morning God would come down to the garden and visit Adam and Eve. In fact, He would walk and talk with them. God gave Adam a job to do. I think it was a pretty fun, but challenging job. Very simple, name all the animals on earth (Do you think the animals talked) and take care of the garden. The garden must have been easy to take care of since there were no thorns or briars. Moreover, they were given the amazing task of filling the earth with children. With the size of the earth, you’re talking about one large family.

I know I am supposed to be talking about health. Please stay with me.

Let’s try to imagine just what it might have been like to be Adam or Eve living in Eden. Perfect health! All the food you can eat, and it’s delicious. No worries about money or bills. No taxes!! What health insurance??? What is cancer anyway, or diabetes, or high blood pressure? Stress? No! Perfect bliss. Your spouse is the most beautiful, or handsome or hot person literally in the whole world. You can wait to have children a few years or you can start now. Your body is made perfect. You never age or die.

Just think, no TV’s, cell phones, computers, blogs, facebooks, bumper to bumper traffic, etc. etc. etc.

Can you smell the flowers? I mean, really breathe in the fragrance of the roses and lilacs with clear sinuses and no allergies. Well, if you are eating your raw wildflower honey from Hallelujah Hive right now, you have no allergies anyway.

Look at the honeybees taking the nectar from the blueberry flowers. I bet that honey tasted good, and it was totally unprocessed and raw. Oh, to take a walk in Eden feeling the warm breeze on my face and experiencing paradise, not having to worry about anything, anything, anything.

Organic grapes the size of humans. Apples with no worms, or waxy pesticide spray, perfectly sweet and crisp. Cool, juicy, deep red heirloom tomatoes, green spinach and onions. What did they use for dressing?

Baked potatoes…..wait a minute. Potatoes weren’t discovered until the middle ages in Ireland. And there were no kitchen stoves to bake potatoes with.

But!!!!!! Don’t you know there is always something that gets in the way! A catch. Something to screw up the works. A fly in the ointment. Murphy’s Law!!

It didn’t matter what Adam named the animals, or how long it took him and Eve to populate the earth. God didn’t care. It did not matter if they took a few months off from working on the garden to travel to a land far, far away. God gave them the largest, most organic buffet ever put on earth, and told Adam that he could eat any and all that he wanted on the entire planet, except for the fruit on one tree. God asked him to stay away from only one tree out of probably billions. Just 1!!!!! Please don’t eat the fruit on this ONEEEEEEEEE tree in the center of the garden. Out of all these trees, “Don’t Eat That Fruit.” Oh, the webs we weave in life.

Adam and Eve ate the fruit…………………disobedience—Sin—Paradise Lost!

Once upon a time there was a beautiful, lush land called Eden where a couple neat folks lived. There was another tree in the garden called the “Tree of Life”. If only they had eaten of the fruit of this tree, they never would have died. Can you imagine that? It might have all been different for us.

Despite Adam eating from the wrong tree, this original vegan still lived almost 1000 years, according to the Bible, along with many folks for generations, until Noah’s flood.

God’s Son was eventually named. The angel told Mary to name him Jesus. Jesus had to buy us back from the devil, who took ownership at the eating of that forbidden fruit. In fact, I believe Jesus is the “Tree of Life”.

He said in the Bible that if we eat of Him (Repent and ask Jesus to save our soul), we will live forever. WOW! The Garden of Eden still exists according to the Bible. There are angels guarding it with fiery swords. Could one day the Garden be open once again to you and me? Maybe we really will take that walk one day in the Garden of Eden.

This is the way I think. If I am wrong, and I don’t think I am, than at least I will one day go to the grave rejoicing and full of hope. If I am right, than I will one day either go to the grave rejoicing and full of hope, or I, with multitudes of others, be called up into the sky to meet Jesus.

The moral of the story: It is very important what we put into our bodies. What we eat can kill us, or it can give us life. Well, this is one of the morals.

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I happened to read a letter my wife Dorothy was sending to someone, who had asked some dietary questions. The letter is so fascinating to me, I thought I would share it with you.

In Dorothy’s own words:

“Thank you for your questions, I will try to answer as best I can and hopefully with enough understanding for your frustrations. We have many customers that rave about our creams. In creating them, I wanted a cream that was as natural as possible with ingredients that are very beneficial to the skin without the questionable bad ingredients. I am very picky about what I put on my skin since your skin can absorb about 30% of whatever you place on it. I would not sell anything I wouldn’t use on myself. Thank you for complementing the condition of my skin! Maybe due to some of my Japanese blood, but I believe any culture can have nice or not so nice skin. I believe most of the credit is due to diet and lifestyle. Good health is priceless. And it doesn’t need to be expensive either. God gives us all opportunity to live a prosperous, healthy life if we seek Him first.

There may be many voices out there concerning health, but look for some common denominators. I believe in the simple rule that our diet should be “mostly whole foods with an emphasis on raw”. Whole foods are basically foods closest to the form God made them. The more processed they are, the worst they are for you. Greens are number 1, then all your vegetables of color. Eat very little to no animal products. Animal products are hard to digest and thus a big burden on the body. Some “Health Gurus” out there may recommend certain animal products, I think mostly because they believe Americans can’t live without having animal products every day or else they are addicted to animal products themselves. Our ancestors had no problem with eating only the occasional wild life they killed while hunting or that one chicken every week or so that they raised themselves. We can certainly get plenty of protein and calcium from non-animal sources. If you enjoy eating animal foods just eat them in moderation.

You already know that white flour and white sugar are bad. Nothing wrong with having an occasional spaghetti dish that can fit into the whole food way. Remember also that eating too much cooked foods can be a burden on the body, depleting our own digestive enzymes.

God gave us taste buds for a reason, we are to enjoy foods. With all the allowances of pleasure God gives us, he also requires that we have some restraint. It is wrong to be a glutton or to overindulge and be selfish in any area of our lives. We can all do better to eat simpler and live simpler. The Christian life is one of discipline and continual submission to God, asking His help all the way. I’m certainly preaching to myself!

Another comment about the expense of health. If you are on the fence, eating processed foods and take-outs as well as animal products every day, and eating some health foods and health products, then yes, it can be expensive. Produce, beans, nuts and seeds are very affordable. Planting your own garden is ideal.

Make sure you read Mark’s newsletters, you’ll get lots of encouragement and direction and especially common sense to eating and living. If you stop by the market, hopefully we can have a chat, if we are not too busy with customers.”

God bless you as you seek His will,

~ Dorothy

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Here is a recent testimony sent by one of our coveted customers.

Taking a shower used to be a duty. Something I simply had to do. Ever since I bought your homemade soaps I RELISH my showers! I can’t wait to lather up those fragrant, all-natural, moisturizing bars! I bought the baby shampoo bar for my 8-month-old son and it is fantastic. I also have the Lip Balm. My lips tend to get dry very quickly, and this lip balm has cured that!

Next time I stop in I’ll be buying some more of your products to try. I have my eye on the Propolis Salve and the Bug Shield. Great job, and keep up the good work. God bless!

Thank you Mallory!!!

If you are interested in more info on our products or you would like to order via our website, you can click your mouse onto www.HallelujahHive.com

For questions or you just would like to order over the phone, you can reach me at 570-401-1353.

Dorothy and I are hoping to see you all at the markets,

Mark

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com