So much for garlic...

Last Sunday we met for church meeting at a member's house. Food and everything. It was a noodle soup, part Burmese part Thai, really good. I should have been suspicious I guess, but didn't think to ask, the dreaded......MSG? question.......

Afterwards, M needed to stop at the hospital for a lab test, and just for fun I asked them to check my bp (I had checked it that morning at home, it was 119/71 or something)
And halfway through the process, she says...."I think you have high blood pressure" well, it ended up 140/101(or something!), which is pretty bad. I was feeling rotten over that, and after just bragging about my bp and garlic, when we remembered, M's was up for him also. Something that almost never happens. Then we remembered, we ate that noodle soup. In this country a common additive, even in home cooking, is MSG...especially soupy type things. And I react REALLY BAD in a bp way, to MSG. We call it "pon-chu-rote" here. But I thought my garlic had "totally healed" me. Just shows, you still must be careful...
The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord.....is that a direct quote? I will have to check. And I better start remembering to ask!

miracles

well don't take my word for it. but last year I started taking garlic (fresh, one clove) every morning. Not just when I felt like I was coming down with something, but EVERY MORNING. I chop it up, put it in a little dish, and while I am eating my oatmeal I spoon a spoonful of garlic, and drink it down like pills with water. Well, about a month ago, I started thinking, "you know, I don't feel like my blood pressure is up." (I hadn't checked it or been to the doctor for a long time.) So I just stopped taking it, but I kept up the garlic. Two days ago I checked my bp. 115/71....hmm not bad.
I checked it again this morning. 114/69.....
I guess I will stick with the garlic....less side effects, and the Lord provided it naturally!

Amen!