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Dec 17, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
One of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read was written by an American, Neil Donald Walsh, who at one stage of his life decided to have an ongoing conversation with God.
Over a period of years Walsh asked God just about every question that came to his troubled mind and recorded God’s responses in three books called, “Conversations with God”. They make for fascinating reading. In many instances God’s responses to some everyday questions are not what we would have expected.
Indeed some of the information God imparts about life in general and our typical behaviour on this planet can be disturbing or enlightening, depending on one’s spiritual or religious disposition.
In one very memorable chapter of “Conversations with God” (book 1) which comes to mind every time we celebrate Christmas, God says that he designed our bodies to last 200 years but we have systematically lower this threshold by what we put into our bodies.
Without a shadow of a doubt Christmas is the time of year that we tend to overload God’s design with the stuff we pile into our bodies. Please do not misunderstand me. I too am guilty of overloading God’s design and loving it.
Imagine that over a period of three to four days we put into our bodies a range of meats (dead animals as God calls them) including garlic pork, pepper pot with beef and pork, cook-up rice with pig-tail, tripe, beef or chicken, ham (more pork), roast chicken, turkey or lamb (for the wealthy); a range of sweetened homemade drinks viz. sorrel, ginger beer, mauby, egg nog plus coffee, cocoa, tea; alcohol such as rum (of course), whisky (single, double and triple malt), wine (high, low, red and white); a range of nuts such as peanuts, cashew nuts, almonds, hazels, picans macadamia, walnut, brazil nuts; then of course we would have started our Christmas day with eggs, bacon (more pork), bread, bake, salt fish, and maybe cereal; our main meal would have included (apart from the meats mentioned above) rice, potatoes (Irish and sweet), assorted veggies, green salad with dressing, stuffing with biscuits, sweets, patties and pine tarts filling the little voids when we are not chewing, sucking or drinking something.
And God bless those relatives and friends who invite us for Christmas lunch or dinner then after shortening our lives by 10 to 15 years send us home with a little bag of goodies, reducing our life span by another five years or so.
Now by any stretch of imagination that has to be overload and we don’t need God to tell us that.
This is the type of consumption that has whittled God’s 200-year design down to three-score and ten. And, I have not even mentioned cigarettes, cigars and the other toxic, mind-altering substances we put into ourselves which make three-score a major lifetime achievement.
Of course the devil invented stress just in case we are inclined to live off of berries, fruits, pulses, nuts, raw veggies and goats’ milk. I believe that when God came up with his 200-year design stress had not yet been invented.
However in today’s reality if stress doesn’t get you Christmas will. So, enjoy the season and be jolly, after all God also said we have free will and must live the good life and be happy.
F. Hamley Case
THEM PIMPING OUT GUYANA.
May 02, 2024
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