“Eating Forward will change your life!!!” Sandi Richard’s website proclaims.
What is ‘Eating Forward’?
“Eating Forward,” Sandi explains, “means knowing what you are going to have for dinner - at the beginning of the day.”
This is such a (apparently) revolutionary concept she has written a whole set of books devoted to the subject.
The benefits of implementing her “simple step by step proven system” are enticing and include...
· Dramatically reduce your stress...
· Improve health and pocketbook...
· Improve your entire family’s dinner experience...
Are there spiritual parallels? Why, yes...we have “feast upon the words of Christ...” and the Lord’s statement that he is the “bread of life,” and “living water...” his blessing that those who “hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled with the Holy Ghost...”
But what does this have to do with General Conference?
Conference has been compared to a spiritual feast. But guess what? The teachings we receive at Conference time are not a one-meal deal. Rather they are like the magic food pouch of Lloyd Alexander’s Gurgi. Providing an unceasing amount of food when necessity requires. Unlike Gurgi’s pouch which produced food without effort we have to work the Conference talks to get the nourishment...kinda like milking a goat...
‘Eating Forward’ in a General Conference context means knowing how we are going to apply a gospel principle at the beginning of the day, before we meet the crisis...
Is it possible? Will doing so reduce our stress and increase our health, wealth and that of our families?
In the Lord’s words, “If any man will do [the Father’s] will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”
And as Alma interpreted it: experiment!
Next up: A plan to help us apply the 'Eating Forward' concept to Conference
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