"Power When you MOST NEED IT"

And how I discovered it

If you have been around Karen's Kitchen for a few years, then you probably already know this story.

Things were going GREAT back in the summer of 1998. Here I had this neat little business that I was running out of my garage. I was grossing about $8,000 a month, and was well thought of in the Zoning Community.

Then someone made a mistake in my shopping cart, and all of my money started going into someone else's account. Then the checks started bouncing. Then the orders got messed up because the computer was dropping the orders after it charged the money but before it sent the order to me. Then it started moving the decimal point around before it ran the charges, so things like a 114.00 order was suddenly charging only $11.40.

Talk about a loss in consumer confidence...

It took me 3-1/2 months to trace all the mistakes down, to contact (or be contacted by) customers whose orders were lost, miscalculated or missed altogether. I kept my cool, I thought, and when it was over, I just laid on the bed looking at the ceiling. In my mind, like a broken record, my dad's little "Why ME, Lord?" kept playing over and over again.

When I started Karen's Kitchen, it was for more than simple health reasons or a way to make money. In fact, MONEY was not the goal at all. I knew that if people were made healthier in their bodies, their minds would be more open to reason, and a healthy body + a healthy mind could then make room for a healthy emotional being, or healthy soul. Yes folks, I confess, I felt a comission from God to make people well so that He could speak to them more clearly.

Time after time, I would pray that God would bless the efforts of Karen's Kitchen. I knew from the responses I got from visitors that I had a gift for explaining things, for encouraging, for helping, and for creating recipes that would make healthy choices seem like the most natural choice in the world. Some days when the work load got too much, I would take time to pray "Lord, this is YOUR KITCHEN, and if you want it to keep going, YOU have to take over for awhile, because I NEED A BREAK."

In January 1999, I got a bigger break than I had ever bargained for.

I woke up one morning with a pain in my lower back. Not unusual, as my family is afflicted with lower back pain, but the unusual part was IT DIDN'T GO AWAY. For MONTHS it didn't go away, and in fact, it got worse and worse until by May, I was flat on my back in bed in excruciating pain. By then I was going to the doctor and had been given Vicoden for the pain. On the worst days, my sister would take me to the Emergency Room where I would get a shot (or two) of Demerol. I was USELESS.

And yet still the Kitchen went on without me. Family members would come over once a week and fill orders for me. Ask me questions and I would point in the right direction for the answers.

A couple of years earlier, I had given up television. So here I was on my back, hating TV but had nothing else to do with a very active mind. So I prayed about it, "Why ME, Lord?" and thought that in all things we are to give glory to God, and realized that if I was asking the QUESTIONS to God, I should go to God's Answer Book -- The Bible -- to get the answers I kept asking.

The answer was this: "I have something really important and special to teach you, and I will take care of the Kitchen while you take the time to learn it." Like a voice speaking in my head, that is what I heard. And I could see it too. I wasn't working at all on the Kitchen, but books kept being given to me that would go along with what I was reading in the Bible, people would be introduced to me that would explain things which I was studying in the Bible. Even though I was in pain, while I was reading and studying, my mind was off the pain, and I was learning SO MUCH!

The pain went away one morning, but then just to show who was in charge, God gave me another 2 years to clean up, learn more about computers, learn more stuff about MYSELF, and learn more about HOW I can teach people to gain mastery over appetite. THAT'S what He wanted me to learn.

The result? The RxF Dietary Guidelines. It is a huge LEAP in understanding how our bodies and minds work, and it will help you in ALL areas of your life. If you don't believe in God, you might want to read up on this anyway. If you DO believe in God, you will have FAITH CHALLENGED like never before. Get ready for a life-changing experience.

The RxF Dietary Guidelines Open with prayer...