March 3, 2006: Friday – Shaping Pro-active Approaches to Health Recovery

First thing I did this morning was take a pH test. The strip showed I was very acidic but how much was hard to tell because the drug store strips don’t give much detail. (It’s rather like taking a cholesterol or bone test at the grocery store.) Needless to say, this was upsetting news. I asked myself how in the world I was going to raise my level – whatever it was – to ‘normal’ or slightly alkaline – with only 2 weeks until the operation?

Rex commiserated but I got the impression that my desperation in searching among natural cures for those that will help immediately is beginning to wear thin on him. I could see that this was not a good thing – getting almost panicky about where to find what information. So, I prayed to Heavenly Father about this quandary. Into my mind came the impression to ask Rex for another blessing (my fourth). Whereas the first two were for comfort, peace and/or strength, this time it would be for knowledge on how to approach my studies and research; what would be helpful under the present circumstances. When I asked him, he agreed wholeheartedly (almost relieved.)

The blessing was (again) beautiful. I wrote down what I could remember afterwards:

While taking in a myriad amount of information, I would forget (or it wouldn’t leave an impression on me) the info that’s not especially to my good. Additionally, the information that I do gather would be not only for the immediate future, but for always.

Concerning the information that I do gather, I’d be able to put that knowledge into a comprehensible form so that it would help others in the future.

I was counseled to use the gift of discernment; to know by seeking the Spirit what, for me, is ‘truth.’ I would be blessed with the strength to not be swayed by well-intended people for there would be people would tell me of things unnecessary and inessential.

I was to know that there will angels nearby and in attendance to see me (us) through.

Rex remembered that the blessing also included the reminder that the ‘Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof’ (1 Cor. 10:26… Ps.24:1) Heavenly Father put plants and herbs here to help nourish and heal us and the knowledge exists to use it to help the body become well. (Alma 46:40 talks of the ‘…many excellent qualities of the many plants and roots which God had prepared to remove the cause of diseases…”) It surprised me that Rex remembered this and I didn’t for it has been Rex all along that leaned more toward conventional therapy.