Bananas and Bible Verse

(My Good Food on January 23, 2014)

Psalm 94:18-19
When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your love, O LORD, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought joy to my soul.

Depression and anxiety are states of low mood and  aversion to activity. This may mean a loss of pleasure over an activity one has been doing.

 ‘When anxiety is great within me, Your ever greatest consolation brings so much joy to my soul’.

Joy comes when we entrust our feelings and emotions to our Creator. While it is the most powerful tool over this negative emotion, here’s a fact about bananas that can help us boost our emotional being.

Bananas

You’ve probably heard that bananas are high in potassium, which helps to control blood pressure and may fight depression. Bananas also contain tryptophan, a mood-lifter, and, because of their three natural sugars — sucrose, glucose and fructose — give an instant boost to flagging energy levels.

In addition, bananas contain considerable amounts of vitamin B6, vitamin C, and potassium. The latter makes them of particular interest to athletes who use them to quickly replenish their electrolytes. Consumption of bananas is associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer and in women, breast cancer and renal cell carcinoma.

Facts info from:  Third Age and Wikipedia sites.

Happiness

I know I was angry – but I realized that the more I think how unfair the situation is, the more I sink in to the thoughts of madness. And the more I wanted to be understood, the more I am lead to being misunderstood.

Today, I realized that I must be motivated forward, plan and think forward, and even if I must fail, I must fail forward – thus this should let me love forward without thinking of the past hurts. I was created as I am, not because I should be dependent to other people. I am not a support. I am who I should become because of His will and plans for my life.

As the saying goes today, people are seeking happiness and fulfillment – if they are not in your way of happiness, that doesn’t mean you are lost.  Happiness should be grown under your feet and not on the way of others. Happiness is the art of creating your own joy. It comes from within and you can only share when you are capable of producing your own one.

Love is never self-seeking. We love not we wish to, but as we can. We don’t love to receive love but because we are created to love that should not ask in return. But we must also learn how to love ourselves first so we won’t lose tract of our real identity and happiness.

I must learn to let go of the things that won’t help me survive this life, or else I must change. If I can’t let go of the relationship, then I must change my attitude. If I can’t let go of the food I love to eat, I must learn how to burn them in exercises. Life is just a matter of perspective and motivation, and knowing God is the master that can control everything.

I must learn how to take things lightly so I don’t carry a burden of too much. I should learn how to cope up and be flexible to things so I won’t get hard times carrying grudges when things aren’t going my way.