Hiding Bad Stuff

Our basement garden is alive and well.  The lettuce has been feeding us for a month and the seedlings are ready for the garden.

It rained against last night and the garden is an expanse of mud.  The forecast is for sunny and warm beginning tomorrow and lasting for several days.  Tilling starts tomorrow!

Meat cooking day came to us. We cook up about ten pounds of hamburger with onions and green peppers and then freeze them in quart containers.  We can whip dinner together in under 30 minutes with one of those.  Last night we spiced one and ate it with ricotta and grated cheddar over potatoes.  It was so good.

Well, we did it.  We gave Christina antibiotic in each teet after milking last night.  Now we must pour the milk out for four days.  Such rich, smooth milk running into a ditch, it breaks the heart.  But there are chemicals hiding in there that would be hard on us. 

How many other things look good and healthy but hide bad stuff?  I didn't have to learn a lot about the industrial food system to come to the assumption that most all commercial food is hiding bad stuff.  It looks good, but we don't see the pesticides, the long-lasting herbicides, or the healthy elements that have been extracted out.  Even in faith, evil and sin can be hiding right in the good stuff.  The temptation of Jesus shows that Satan has no trouble quoting Scripture for his own purposes.  So even Scripture can be hiding toxics.  Scripture, like milk, has to be reared in a healthy environment, nothing snuck in, and received as a gift rather than used as a weapon.  Then it becomes the healthiest of all foods, like Christina's rich milk, able to bring us sustained growth and long-lasting well being.