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Spiritual Conductivity: Is Your Soul Running on Low 'Mineral' Levels?

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Let’s be honest: most of us don’t think much about minerals unless a doctor brings them up, a supplement ad gets weirdly aggressive, or our body starts acting like a phone on 2% battery. But minerals matter. They help your body do the hidden work that keeps you alive. Signals fire. Muscles move. Rhythms stay steady. Things connect the way they’re supposed to. And when those tiny elements are out of balance, your whole system can feel off. Which raises a wild question: if the body needs the right stuff for healthy electrical function, what does the soul need for healthy spiritual conductivity ? Not in a lab-coat, science-project sense. In a real-life, following-Jesus-on-a-Tuesday kind of sense. Jesus said, “Abide in me, and I in you” (John 15:4). That’s connection language. Flow language. Stay plugged in. Stay close. Stay where the life is. Because a branch that disconnects from the vine does not become more free. It just dries out. That sounds a lot like us. Sometimes we wonder why we ...
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Mineral deficiencies are often caused by factors such as poor dietary intake, malabsorption, soil depletion, increased bodily demand, medication interference, chronic alcoholism, and fluid or blood loss. These conditions can lead to low levels of essential minerals, including iron, magnesium, calcium, zinc, and potassium, all of which are crucial for various aspects of health such as oxygen transport, bone strength, immune function, and heart health. Key Causes of Mineral Deficiencies • Poor Dietary Intake: A diet low in nutrient-dense foods, or high in processed foods where minerals are removed during manufacturing. • Malabsorption Issues: Digestive conditions like celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease, or surgery (such as bariatric or gastric bypass) prevent the body from absorbing nutrients properly. • Soil Depletion: Over-farming and certain agricultural practices have reduced the mineral density in soil, so crops grown in this soil may have fewer...
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Is Clean Air Really That Big of a Deal?

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Air is the most immediate necessity of life. While a person can survive weeks without food and days without water, only minutes pass before the body suffers without oxygen. Every breath delivers oxygen to the bloodstream, fueling cells and sustaining vital organs.  Clean air supports efficient lung function, heart performance, and brain activity. When air quality declines, even healthy individuals may experience fatigue, headaches, and respiratory irritation.                                                                                      Long-term exposure to polluted air is linked to asthma, cardiovascular disease, and decreased immune resilience. Fine particulate matter can enter the bloodstream through the lungs, contributing to inflammation throughout the body....
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If You Escape the Noise of Life, What Will You Do With the Silence? Fresh-air Places May Be God's Gift to Man

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You know that first deep breath you take after leaving the city? No exhaust, no bus fumes, no weird chemical smell drifting up from the street. Just pine, wet dirt, maybe rain on leaves. Your shoulders drop a little without you even telling them to. Clean air does something to you. Out in a forest, the world finally stops shouting. The traffic soundtrack is gone. Your phone signal might even disappear for a while. At first it feels nice. Then it feels… strange. Almost uncomfortable. Because when the noise drops, the thoughts you’ve been dodging start getting loud. C. S. Lewis understood that tension. In The Screwtape Letters , he imagines a senior demon bragging that Hell is full of Noise, and that their goal is to make the whole universe one long blast of distraction. Music and silence, he says, are dangerous because they pull people toward reflection, beauty, and ultimately toward God. If the enemy of our souls loves noise that much, maybe our desperate hunger for quiet is tryin...
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The TASTE of Waiting: Just Like Bitter Herbs @ Work

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I almost canceled the whole project... We’d spent nearly two weeks inviting people to take part in a series of interviews. Emails, announcements, reminders, conversations after a meeting. Silence. Not a single “Yes.” I started doing what most of us do in that awkward in-between: questioning everything. Maybe the idea was bad. Maybe I heard wrong. Maybe God wasn’t really in this. I opened my laptop, ready to rethink the entire strategy, when I finally noticed something I’d somehow missed: a message from two days earlier. Someone had already volunteered. The “no response” I’d been stressing over wasn’t actually true. The provision had come. I just hadn’t seen it. Ever been there? Waiting, worrying, rewriting your whole life plan in your head, while God has already started answering behind the scenes? The Taste of Waiting Think of bitter herbs. Nobody eats them for the flavor. They’re sharp, strong, and uncomfortable on the tongue. But they help fight infection, support digestion, and bui...
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What Are Some Natural Bacteria and Virus Killers?

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Vitamin C – This is a remarkable powerful destroyer of bacteria and viruses.  Garlic – This is one of the most powerful antiseptic substances ever discovered. Echinacea – This herb is an excellent antibiotic.  It also contains compounds with specific antiviral activity.  Goldenseal – This herb is another powerful germ killer. Like Echinacea, it is good for nearly every disease. Taken with any herb, it increases the tonic effects on the specific organ been treated. Chaparral – This is another wonderful herb useful against bacteria, viruses, and parasites.  Pau D’Arco – Internally fights bacterial and viral infections.  Ginger – Contains over 400 different compounds with several key phytochemicals identified as having antiviral, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties.  Licorice – Has active antiviral compounds which keep viruses from replicating.
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The Myth of Injustice: What Happens When the REAL Light Hits?

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  There’s something unsettling about exposure. Not the kind that happens on social media, but the deeper kind. The slow unraveling of secrets. The moment when what was carefully hidden suddenly stands in the open air. We see it happen all the time. Leaders who seemed untouchable. Public figures who curated flawless images. Institutions that appeared solid and respectable. And then, years later, a thread gets pulled. Evidence surfaces. Conversations leak. Patterns emerge. What was buried rises. Why does that pattern repeat itself across history? Why do hidden things have a way of surfacing? And why do we feel, almost instinctively, that this is how it should be? When injustice is uncovered, there’s outrage. But there’s also something else. A strange sense of equilibrium. As if the world tilted off balance and then, slowly, corrected itself. Even people who don’t share the same beliefs agree on this much: wrong should be answered. Harm should not disappear into silence. C.S. Lewis ar...
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