I have been taught that if you stand for nothing you will fall for anything.  This philosophy has caused me to have pretty strong views in many areas, and unfortunately, many people do not understand why I feel the way I do.  It seems I am just one very misunderstood person.  I have been called judgmental, a hippie, over the top or crazy due to the fact that I don’t “go with” the mainstream view in many areas.  I think many of my posts coming up are going to clarify some of my thought processes of our families decision making.  It seems many may think that I just go against the grain without any research behind it.  Now mind you, I could care less what others think about how our family works, there is only one Almighty Judge, and that’s not me or you.  My hope is this may open someone’s eyes as to figuring out “why they believe what they believe”, and maybe to ask some questions they would have never have thought to ask before.  This will also give me the opportunity to share where I have gotten my information, and give others an opportunity to research it themselves.  I know this is off topic from what I have been discussing, but it is heavy on my heart to share.

Our thought, feelings, beliefs are shaped from experiences that happen in our life.  Some may have never had any discouragement, issues, or problems so they have never had to examine the things I have had to (or there is major denial going on).  When I was 13 my father died of a massive heart attack. Unfortunately this could have been avoided had the medical doctors put my dad in the hospital immediately after the stress test which showed issues or even checked further into his heart issue a year prior after his first heart attack.  I tell you this because this is where my doubt and questions came towards the medical field.  We were never a family who “ran to the doctor” when we got sick.  I am not sure if it was because of our insurance, finances, or beliefs at the time, but I was never in the habit of this.  Then I was getting bronchitis at least four times a year, I would be put on antibiotics, and then I would get it again a month later.  Why?  I couldn’t figure out why my doctors never found the cause, or even asked why it kept happening, they would just send me home with a prescription antibiotic.  There has to be something internally not right, that this keeps occurring, right?  Seems like an obvious question, that I never got an answer to, at least not from an MD anyway.  I was about 18 at the time, when my aunt begged me to go see this “alternative” health doctor.  I came up with every excuse, “I’m broke, he’s a witch doctor, he won’t be able to help me, I don’t believe in what he does, he’s a quack!” Then she said he was doing a canned food drive, and I would get a free visit just for bringing one in, also pointing out what could it hurt?  So I went, and that one visit has changed me, and our families health care, for the rest of our lives!