Personal Reflections

Yesterday was a pharmacy 👩‍⚕️ workday for me.

Masked and gloved…. because that’s how pharmacy rolls right now.

It’s 10 hours of opportunity to observe humanity while working, and as all recent workdays, there are exactly two kinds of people out and about…. those that are living in faith 🙌 and those that are living in fear 😱 .

“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7

The two…. faith and fear … cannot coexist in the same body.

I have friends who are elderly and immunocompromised who have been operating thru this season on faith with a sound mind. They are protecting themselves, but standing strong…. shoulders back, and carrying a wink and a smile in their eyes. (These are my dear folks who should and do wear a mask).

I have other elderly friends who are 80+ years old…. strong as an ox still (most of them are farmers 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾 and ranchers btw) who are taking minimal precautions, and navigating life as they always have been…. with confidence, humor, and a practical mindset.

These two groups are my personal heroes….. I pray I am like them when I am 80+ and going strong. Life is short friends… and they make the most of every day. 💕

Then, I see others….. of all ages….. shoulders either up around their ears or curled forward, eyes that have lost their sparkle, wearing a mask made of anything they could find. Asking how (or IF) “we” are going to survive all of this… and then go on to quote all that the mainstream media has said for the last many days. Clearly, they’re absorbing all that is being dished out.

Fear can be an idol all of its own. People don’t start out wanting to be fearful, but the mind is a powerful thing. Constant exposure to fear based media will begin to shape and program the brain until fear becomes the driving force of how someone thinks, acts, and responds. Our immune system responds accordingly to how our brain is programmed.

Fear drives the immune system downward to ultimate sickness. 😷

Faith raises the immune system. 🙏🙌

Faith and fear cannot coexist. The Bible is very clear about this, and interestingly (but not surprisingly) science endorses this statement.

We will become what we think about the most, and it is terribly important to be aware of the type of information we are exposing ourselves to.

According to science, it takes 63 days to develop a pattern in the brain. And, according to the Nielsen report, United States adults watch roughly 5 hours of televison per day (or 77 days a year).

Television

“Tell you vision” .

If what your eyes see and ears hear feed a fear based mentality, I urge you to reconsider what you expose yourself to.

Additionally, if you’ve never tried the Young Living essential oil blend White Angelica, I’d encourage EVERYONE to keep a bottle on hand and apply it or diffuse it daily. Do it for a month and see if it doesn’t change your world…. especially if you spend a great deal of time around negative minded people. #youcanthankmelaterforthistip 😘

Hugs and love friends.

xoxo~ Liz

#youarecreatedforgreatness
#faithoverfear
#enjoyyourweekendoutdoors
#faithisfreedomfearisprison
#ThanksYL

It seems like every time I blink there is a new twist to the news, new theories, new “important people” telling us how to act, do, be, and think.

I was fortunate to grow up in a family that didn’t cling to TV at all. Kitchen table discussion and books 📚 were our indoor activities. My grandparents did this, and so did my parents. They taught us to be independent thinkers and not rely on commercials or the news (that was back in the 70’s and 80’s).

Solid news is even harder to find these days. I qualify “solid” as being able to trace a piece of information back to a peer reviewed study (that wasn’t paid for by BIG money), or by tracing a fact backwards til you get to the core. Does what was said actually have feet to stand on…. or was it theory or emotion or partially (but patently) untrue?

I find “half truths” to be especially annoying in the news. 🙅‍♀️ Half truths are even worse than solid lies because (akin to Satan), quite a bit of footwork is done to deceive someone on purpose by making them accept a concept as wholy true based on a tiny bit of fact… filling the rest in as purely fictitious.

Because y’all….. we want to believe that people are honest and kind. 

News is not a game, nor should it be historical fiction. We need unbiased facts…. Our very LIVES depend on accurate information and we are just not receiving it. Clickbait.

😱 Worst economic drop since……
😱 Bye bye Handshakes……
😱 Welcome to face masks, our new normal……
😱 33,000 deaths in the US due to…….
NONE of these headlines are fully true BTW if you investigate them. They contain a shred of truth, but whole truth is much bigger. You HAVE to look at the context of everything spoken and written.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’ll give a news source a good chance, but I’ll do my due diligence in the process. If I catch a source in a fabrication they do not get a second chance.

News should be to investigative truth, not a click-bait designed to ultimately cause anxiety, fear, physiological stress, and sleeping difficulties. (THIS is a fact on which you can do your own research ).

Where do you all go for news these days? Lemme know if you’ve found other reliable sources out there….’cause I’m always looking.

My current “go to’s” are independent journalists, a newspaper called Epoch Times, and the daily afternoon press briefings from the White House.

hugs and love friends~ liz

#thetruthislearnednevertold
#wehavethetimetoinvestigateandlearnfactfromfiction
#dig
#Matthew7:15-23

​In this strange world we’re currently living in, I don’t care if you are an introvert or an extrovert, there’s something to be said for individual freedom. I’m missing mine, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that sentiment!

Charlie (my husband) is an extrovert now working predominately from home… he’s missing his social time that comes with working in a group office.

I am an introvert and working predominately at home (except when I’m wearing my white coat) is my jam and comfort zone.

We are all adapting aren’t we? 

Don’t forget to use your tools and oil up! … remember, specific oil blends do help to:

👉 drive energy up 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ …..or down 😴

👉 create sunny 🌞 dispositions when your housemates might feel stormy.

👉 help brains function when they’d rather be in bed 

Even as adults… there are times we’d rather just crawl into bed and hug our blankies. And that’s ok…. just don’t make a habit of it! 😘 This is a time of stillness in our lives we will likely never experience again together.

Reflect. Reset. Rejuvenate. Recover. Renew. 
You’ve got this!

xoxo~ liz

#bettertogether
#thanksYL
#usethetoolsyouvegottomakeyourhomeahappyone

Many of you are gardening 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾 this year, and I hope thought has been given as to how to organically manage pests and weeds. I have been an organic gardener for years, and organic gardening requires a bit of pre-planning and a willingness to exercise.

Pesticides and herbicides have a lifetime of potential side effects. Thankfully, there ARE alternatives out there, although you gotta be willing to put some “sweat equity” into your food.

Ya’ll are a smart bunch…. and I feel certain you’ve thought this thru. Lest you want to give up and reach for a toxic chemical, I’m speaking up on behalf of your mitochondria…. it’s one of the most important bits of you. Your cell’s mitochondria are your energy makers, helpers in your detoxification process, and play a supportive role in your immune system. In short…. you surely don’t want to poison this very important bit of you 😘.

Garden on my friends….safely!

xoxo~ liz

#knowbetterdobetter
#youcandothis
#toxinfreeisthewaytobe
#ThanksYL
#SeedtoSealiswhatYLdoes