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Flu Fighting Elderberry and Astragalus Syrup

November 8, 2017 · In: family, Featured, herbs

 We read blog after blog claiming things like elderberry syrup, fire cider, and some type of tonic all help to reduce cold and flu symptoms. I myself live Elderberry and…

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“Now there was a famine in the land…” That’s how “Now there was a famine in the land…”

That’s how Genesis 26 opens, and I couldn’t get past it. Famine is a topic Yahweh has brought to my attention over and over these last few years, and as a watchman, I take note. So I sat in this chapter. It isn’t a story about scarcity. It’s a story of sustainability and favor.

In the middle of a famine, Isaac planted crops and reaped a hundredfold the very same year. His flocks, herds, and household grew so large that the Philistines envied him. They filled his father’s wells with dirt. And King Abimelek finally told him, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”

Isaac wasn’t powerful because of armies or gold. He was powerful because he could sustain his household. His wealth was the riches of the earth: food, livestock, linen, trades, and skills. He didn’t need a king to take care of his family. He did that with the help of Yahweh.

And that has always intimidated the kingdoms of this world.

Wells weren’t just water. They were a claim to the land. Filling in Abraham’s wells tried to erase his family’s inheritance. Isaac dug them back open.

Peace didn’t come at the first well, or the second. It came at the third, Rehoboth: “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.” Settling took patience and maturity.

Favor didn’t mean skipping the work. Isaac still had to dig, plant, and do his due diligence.

The same king who sent him away came back asking for a treaty, because they “saw clearly that the Lord was with you.”

When God rests the favor of sustainability on a people, the world takes notice. Some will try to squash it. Others will fear and reverence it.

Friends, this is the mission of the church. Not just physical sustainability, but spiritual. We are a sovereign people in the Kingdom of Yahweh, called to be a house of provision and refuge, a traveling Goshen in a hungry land. We don’t walk in fear of earthly kingdoms. We walk in the fear of the Lord.
He still shows favor on the Isaacs.

Read more in this new Substack post…

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Most people look at a peach tree and think about t Most people look at a peach tree and think about the fruit, but peach leaf has a long history of use in traditional herbal medicine.

Herbalist Matthew Wood describes peach (Prunus persica) as primarily cooling, moistening, soothing, and calming, particularly when tissues are hot, dry, irritated, and hypersensitive.

Traditionally, peach leaf has been used for:

• Nausea + vomiting — especially a hot, irritated, overly sensitive stomach
• Pregnancy-related nausea — a traditional use of peach leaf
• Digestive irritation — including abdominal tenderness and an irritated stomach
• Dry, irritating coughs — when respiratory tissues feel hot, dry, ticklish, and sensitive
• Allergic irritation — especially with redness, dryness, itching, and hypersensitivity
• Dry, reactive skin — when tissues are red, hot, itchy, or irritated
• Nervousness + restlessness — particularly with overstimulation and difficulty settling down
• Menopausal heat — especially hot flashes accompanied by dryness and irritation
• Urinary irritation — when bladder tissues are hot, tender, and irritated

The energetic picture is what ties these seemingly unrelated uses together:

HOT + DRY + IRRITATED + SENSITIVE

Peach leaf is both cooling and moistening, making it particularly interesting when heat and dryness exist together.

This is why learning herbal energetics matters. Instead of simply asking, “What herb is good for this symptom?” we learn to ask, “What is happening in the tissues, and which herb matches that pattern?”

Now is the time to grab those peach leaves before they begin to turn in the changing of seasons!
Are you ever overwhelmed by all the information an Are you ever overwhelmed by all the information and headlines you read? Headlines don’t bother me one bit—because I know I am held in the hands of Yahweh. But I am prone to the desire to consume information. I want to learn how things work, how I can fix something, how I can make our family more sustainable, the teachings of theology, or the traditional discoveries of the earth, health, and wellness. 

I often think of Solomon and the Apostle’s writings—what is life if I gain all the knowledge and wisdom in the world but lose my soul? What is it if I have not love? 

I feel like the last few years of my life has been increasingly frantic. Static. I can pinpoint the spiritual encounter when this started. Yet as this year draws closer to an end, I feel the Lord drawing me deeper into a reset. I have clearer vision of His will for our lives as a family. I have refreshed revelation of our mission. And over the last week or so I’ve been feeling like this weight coming off of me bit by bit. 

It has been a process, but a beautiful one. I have looked back on the last three years and seen the hand of God, but also the distractions of the enemy. And yet in those distractions God was still merciful and gracious. Still teaching and humbling me. Still loving me. Even when I am prone to “gain knowledge”, still reminding me of His parameters and boundaries. 

We never reach “there”. We are always waiting to arrive somewhere, but that never happens when you’re on mission with Him. The mission just keeps expanding—just as the parable of the mustard tree says. So if you are waiting to reach that “place” of comfort or “figured it out”, it doesn’t work that way. The kingdom builds on every next step—so does the mission God gave you. 

And so, when your heart is overwhelmed because you realize you’ve been trying to do it from a place of “knowing”, goto the Rock that is higher. Higher, because He has greater vision, ability, and mercy for what is to come. 

I am excited about 2027. Even in the turmoil that I know is about to begin—as a disciple of the Most High, my soul awaits to see the promises He has made, for He is faithful and just, a refuge in times of trouble. Selah ❤️‍🔥
The headline sounds revolutionary: “Trump Signs Or The headline sounds revolutionary: “Trump Signs Order to Help Ranchers Bypass USDA-Inspected Processing Facilities.”

But what does the executive order actually do?

It directs the USDA to:

• Investigate unfair or monopolistic practices in the meatpacking industry.

• Review regulations and remove unnecessary reporting and overly prescriptive inspection requirements where current law allows.

• Expand cooperative inspection programs that let qualifying state-inspected processors sell meat across state lines.

• Provide training and technical assistance to small processors.

• Help farmers locate slaughter and processing options.

• Work toward a guaranteed-loan program for small and regional processors.

• Report within 60 days on the laws preventing state-inspected or custom-exempt meat from entering interstate commerce.

These may be worthwhile steps, or not. Processing consolidation has left family farmers with fewer choices, longer wait times, higher costs, and less control over the food they raise.

But here is the important part:

This order does NOT immediately give farmers a new legal right to butcher their livestock and sell that meat directly to consumers, especially across state lines. It does not eliminate federal inspection requirements or make custom-exempt meat legal for interstate commerce.

The order repeatedly states that USDA must act “consistent with applicable law.” An executive order can direct an agency to use authority it already has, but it cannot erase or rewrite federal statutes.

For lasting change, Congress must pass laws creating a clear, lawful path for family farmers and small processors to feed their communities. We’ve said this before—we aren’t fixing this in 4 years without a miracle—pass the Farm Bill!

A farmer selling meat directly to an informed neighbor is not the same as an industrial corporation distributing millions of pounds through a national supply chain. Our laws should recognize that difference.

This order may open a door and identify the barriers. But it does not finish the work.

Executive action may begin the conversation.

LEGISLATION is what can make the change real, durable, and firmly rooted.
There is something that happens when someone passe There is something that happens when someone passes away and they were impactful in, or upon, your life. As you sit with the thought that the breath of life—the space—that this person had in this world no longer exists, you find you want to be a little more like them in your own space. 

When my grandmother died, I wanted to remember all the best things about her. Her unconditional kindness. Her ability to remain calm. How she would sing and pray all the time in her home. I haven’t even remotely attained those character traits yet, but I’m getting there.

You think of someone like the great agrarian and writer, Wendell Berry. His convictions drove him to do and write in a certain way. He didn’t just talk about what he believed—he did it. And it makes my convictions stronger as I think about what he stood for, how he wrote, and how he lived.

The pattern is that when someone you love, or who greatly inspired you, leaves this earth—you begin to realize that you want to become someone who fills the void of their goodness within the earth. They must not be forgotten. Convictions grow stronger. Changes are made. Others are inspired.

And in pondering this, I thought to myself—this must be how the disciples felt when Jesus died. And it broke me. 

I have never seen my Savior or LORD face to face. I did not walk with Him as the dirt dusted our feet along a journey to a new city that would come to know His greatness. I never sat with Him personally, shoulder to shoulder, to be mentored. I don’t know how He wrote letters or notes. But upon the history written in scripture, I know Him.

And I think this is exactly how his friends and disciples felt after He died. And of course in His case, He rose again. 

Within each one of them, it was as if a fire were shut up inside of them. They did not have to be convinced of conviction and to act upon it. They loved Him so much that when they thought of Him, they lived better. They filled the void that was left. They told everyone about Him, and they wanted them to fill the void too.

Do I love Him this way? Do I miss my Lord so much that I want to take His place until He returns? This is the way—this is the que

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