I wonder if this time in quarantine has been a good time of reflection and not just a difficult time of being isolated. I normally work from home as well as homeschool, so for me, not too many things have changed except for the social and educational activities that I normally do with my son. But even that, I hadn’t realized how many activities take us out and about each week so am really feeling constrained and confined. I’ve been thinking that this isolation has got me in some ways very content to slow the pace and enjoy not having to constantly be on the go. But I’m also feeling saddened by this removal from all socialization. I’m shocked even at how everyone is treating everyone else like a walking lethal weapon.

How do we get past this feeling that we are lethal to one another? I have been reading, like many of you, of the different means for the cure of COVID-19 and much success has been written about vitamin C therapy, and yet there seems to be a reluctance to utilize it. It seems that any natural type of protocol is often shunned and looked at as hocus pocus in our society, and I wonder how it is that we’ve come so far from what the Bible has shown us as our means for health and wellness.

Years ago when I contracted Clostridium Difficile in the hospital after giving birth to my son, I was forced into holistic healing due to my illness being antibiotic resistant and having no other means of getting better and surviving.  That journey, nine years ago led me to a book by Jordan Rubin, The Maker’s Diet. I read many, many other books as well that helped me tremendously, but Jordan’s book resonated with me because of the Biblical perspective on eating and wellness. Since then, my family has turned to eating holistically as well as managing illnesses with different methods other than pharmacology.

While the illness I went through was quite difficult I was able to see the blessing that came from it by virtue of how my health after that has been consistently better with so much less fear, too. In my younger years I spent a whole lot of time at the doctor’s office as well as the emergency room. And we don’t neglect going to the doctor, we just don’t need to so much. Interestingly, I got very sick back in October with what I thought was pneumonia—I felt like I had glass in my lungs and the mucus was so thick in my throat that my attempts at coughing were simply unproductive and I kept choking. I would cough incessantly and it was painful. I did go to the doctor, and he urged me to go to an Urgent Care Center where I could have an x-ray done of my lungs as well as get any further treatment necessary. I did get put on a steroid as well as having been given a dose of meds through a nebulizer. The relief was temporary. I purchased a whole host of things like Black seed oil and upped my vitamin C, albeit not to the levels I was reading about on http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

Now in the midst of COVID-19, many people I know have asked me if I thought that I had it back then since they saw me and my symptoms and I think that I did. I don’t wish that on anyone. In retrospect, I am very grateful that I had all that knowledge of natural and holistic measures I was able to take to heal, because they certainly helped me tremendously. Steaming glutathione in a mug of hot water and breathing that in; the vitamin c, black seed oil, NAC, all the things I am reading about now that people are doing to help really did help me.

So how did we stray so far from using more Biblical means of dealing with disease? Many will answer: Science! But we know that the science is never settled and what works for one doesn’t always work for the other. Maybe this is why if we stay true to natural ways of living, we can find that we also find ourselves with better health. We are bombarded enough each day by EMFs, GMOs and lots of other things that we aren’t even sure what they are doing to our bodies. When God gave us dominion over this earth, it was as tenants that have to care for it. But look at how we poison it every day. Perhaps this time is a time when we are seeing bluer skies and less pollution, as there is less going on in the world. This is what we should reflect on and think about how we can change going forward. I can’t stop a company from producing toxins into the world, but I can certainly stop buying their products.