Article June 13, 2011 Issue

Nourished by divine Love

By Daniel Watts

Several years ago, I found myself needing to learn more about God’s nature as the Love that feeds and sustains creation.

At the time, a few of the people where I worked were taking daily medications for problems relating to food. We would often interact with each other in the course of business, and I developed warm friendships with these individuals. My ready feeling of sympathy increased; I was more and more drawn in by their difficulties, and was becoming more aware of television advertisements and newspaper articles relating to the health issues they were dealing with. There was a culture at the workplace of education about and constant awareness of disease, and after a few years I began to notice fear developing in my own thought about food-related troubles.

As time went on, I began to manifest problems connected with food. For one thing, I had begun snacking almost constantly. This was something new to me, and I wasn’t able to stop—it seemed to be an addiction. I would eat wholesome meals, but the need to snack, mostly on sweets, would remain. Also, I was putting on weight and found that my ability to enjoy fun outdoor activities with family and friends became limited by a lack of physical stamina. Another thing was that I was increasingly feeling a lack of energy, focus, and steadiness at work, and was experiencing dizziness at times. These symptoms were strange to me, and I grew frightened. I felt that I hadn’t been alert enough over the years in handling and casting out aggressive food-related suggestions through prayer. 

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