Not now, but eventually.
I don't really know what Cobb Salad is, I assume it has something to do with lettuce and corn.
What's important is that it's food, I think. I've never eaten a Cobb salad but judging from Google images, it looks pretty neat. Cobb salad is healthy, you can tell that it's healthy because it's got "salad" at the end and all salad is healthy.
Why are we talking about food?
Because I'm hungry, duh.
Anywho, I recognize that everyone comes from a different background, but let's all take a trip back in time to our respective childhoods. Don't like time travel? Pardon me. Don't like your childhood? Imagine someone else's. Don't like questions? Don't, you know, be so weird.
Alright then, let's remember dinner time.
*This is the part where you remember it and you're like, "Oh Brussel sprouts... So Brussel-y, so sprouty..."*
As a kid, little baby Levi, I always knew what was for dinner. I always knew the main course, the sides, the drinks we were going to have. I loved dinner because dinner was always the best meal. There was a good reason for this: my mom made dinner, we typically made our own lunch. Mom was a great cook, still is, but she really made dinner a great experience. Pot roast, king ranch chicken casserole, home made enchiladas, pizza, stir fry, INFINITY CHEESE LASAGNA... It was the best.
But here's the thing: most everything she cooked was pretty dang nutritious. She was big on vegetables, studied the food guide pyramid, did just about everything to make sure we, her kids, were eating healthy. That's pretty impressive.
But, here's another thing: despite her or my dad's instruction on what to eat and how much, we could always screw it up and make it unhealthy. See, stir fry is healthy if you eat the right sized portion; if you go overboard, that's a lot of sodium and that's unhealthy. (And that's a run-on sentence). The key is portion control, staying in the parameters of what is recommended.
Okay, that's a looooong intro to basically say this: consume healthy. Healthily? Healthfully? Whatever.
It's very simple, but also very easy to mess up. You KNOW going into dinner that eating five pounds worth of melted cheesy goodness is a very bad thing, but, gosh darn it, it just tastes so good. You know you shouldn't drink like any egg nog ever, but you do because it tastes like Christmas. Don't judge me.
So, look at it this way. Your life, and everyone else's life for that matter, is a table set with a multitude of different plates to eat off of. I suppose you could say that it's all part of one big plate, but I like to compartmentalize things, and that's what I'll do.
Free time for me is possibly my most unhealthy plate. I know that it needs to be filled with healthy things like reading the Bible, praying, or just resting, but often times I fill it with video games, movies, writing dumb little paragraphs on blogs, twitter, or anything else that's really worthless. When I'm at work, I know that my time is best spent doing what my boss asks, being attentive to customers and letting them talk to me, but sometimes I spend it being snarky, making up excuses, or just being negative. With everything I do, there are more than a few healthy things I can fill my plate with, as well as more than a few unhealthy things. It's up to me to decide what to fill my plate with. Ultimately, my decisions on what I consume will determine how healthy I am.
Which brings me back to a prior point about my mom: she always made it possible for us to be healthy. And, try as she may, there was no way to force us into a balanced diet. The same applies with our Heavenly Father. Now, He gives us every opportunity to fill our plates with healthy things, it just takes realizing the importance of being Healthy in Him. Not like, "do the right thing and you won't get sick and you'll be rich," more like, "do what you can to honor the God who made everything possible."
Mouth Stuff:
“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated? But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man." (Matthew 15:17, 18 HCSB)
But He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4 HCSB)
So, what do your plates look like? Do you need to go on a diet, so to speak? I do.
Be healthy, my friends.
-Levi
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