Such Treasures

I was thinking about my post of the other day regarding Mikah’s food allergies and realized that I neglected to mention the big picture. That is to say, how do we feel about Mikah’s food allergies? We give thanks to God! God used him to teach us to question what we were eating and why. What I mean is that once we began seeing what an effect foods had on Mikah, we became aware of deficiencies in our family’s diet. The first step of this, for us, was to pick food products apart, ingredient by ingredient. We saw how horribly we’d been eating. We were consuming so many preservatives and artificial ingredients, and very few fresh foods.

This got to be a little overwhelming, so after awhile, we figured there was a much simpler way to choose foods. Instead of saying, “What is this ingredients and is it good or bad for us?” we asked, “Did God make this food this way?” That really helped us. We focused then on whole foods or real foods, unaltered by chemical processes or ingredients.

So we give thanks to the Lord for making our son sensitive. He showed us the right questions to ask to improve the health of all of us.