Change the World With Chickpeas: a Simple, Savory Snack

Sometimes we simply need to get started. We need to stop waiting to try something new, stop enduring the current state of things and stop accepting the ‘norm’ as the non-negotiable way.

We simply need to start something new, change the norm and set new standards, even if just one small step at a time. After all, the world will never change if we don’t even start! If we don’t begin in our own hearts and homes, how will we ever be able to believe that something bigger and better can happen?!

That’s how I feel right about now. There’s so much sadness and sin, so much muck and utter madness. There’s so much clogging our world’s arteries that soon we’ll all be sick with diseases of head and heart!

That’s why we simply need to start.

If we take our own hearts and homes, if we speak truth and stand up for the world’s spiritual health, at least we’re taking a step. We’re setting an example for those who live in our own little worlds and, with that, perhaps we even send ripples to people in our outer circles.

Then, once we’ve started simply with just one small step, God’ll give us His confidence and endurance to create bigger waves out into the world. We can never know how our great big God will use our small, humble efforts.

Don’t you get it? We can’t change anything with opinion! There’s no nourishment in knowing. CHANGE only happens when we get out of our heads and DO differently. We heal when we make things happen, even if it’s just starting with something so small that only our household sees it.

Because if we all just do that, eventually we’ll unite to change the world…

I certainly don’t mean to trivialize the troubles in this war-torn world with a recipe! But, can’t we use food to symbolize how small changes create big differences? If all you do in your diet is replace chips with much healthier chickpeas (or fruit or whatever!), you will eventually be inspired to change MORE. And before you know it, your whole body will be different from how you feel to how you function.

You have the ability to change your beautiful body for the better, to honor the temple God gave you and to care for the vessel crafted just for you! And it only takes small steps to start…(That’s the way the world works, too, you know. If we want it to feel and function differently, we have to nourish it!)

So, yeah, show yourself how one small delicious change in how you feed your family can change the way you feel, almost instantly. Then apply it to how you work in the world and the ways you reflect love and light into the very dark diseases infesting human creation—the most beautiful of all God’s design.

What small change will you start with?