I am still working on discovering foods I am allergic to which cause a muscle reaction, that is, my muscles twitch, get charlie horses, or hurt. Glucon is a major one, additives in some foods like hot dogs are also a big one, and today I figured out that most things that are “diet” foods because of aspartame or some other stuff, is also a significant contributor. I am not sure how many different things I will find are a problem, but I know that since I have been extra cautious of my eating, I have been feeling better and better. I have had this severe restless leg, restless arm syndrome for years, and I have lost more sleep than I can remember. It is kind of sad to think that I could have possibly been free of this aggregation years ago had I known what the problem was. It is my fault because I have, for most of my life, been very undisciplined in my eating. I should have guessed because when I would fast for a prayer event, I would always feel better. I suspected a food issue, but I was so addicted to eating whatever I wanted I blocked it out of my mind. Several years ago, I quit eating wheat and sugar and noticed a marked improvement in my health, but I was so stupid I started eating it again. Oh well, better late than never, and I am 74, so it is later.

The older I get the more I realize that self-control is the major issue in most areas of our life. My flesh, the world, and the devil have been major controllers of my life for most of my years. Read the Bible every day, pray every day, don’t get angry at anybody for any reason, take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and on the list goes. Self-control is a character trait that we grow stronger and stronger in as we work on it, and it is also a “fruit of the Spirit,” that is self-control isn’t possible without God’s power working in us, but the Holy Spirit doesn’t work in us in a vacuum, we work together with Him.

If I live to be 120 years old I may have this figured out, but I will be so senile I will have forgotten it all!!