Saturday 6 December 2014

crisps and red wine don't improve meditation

Those who advertise crisps and red wine entice us by making us think we will feel better when we open the packet and eat the delicious crisp made from an innocent potato grown in our good old English fields!  The wine advertisements show happy merry people sipping ruby red wine and having conversations round a polished table with all the people we might like to imagine ourselves to be friends with.
Government health warnings say something different:  they say that we are much more likely to be overweight from all the saturated fat in the enticing crisp and we are much more likely to suffer diseases from drinking too much red wine or any of red wine's alcoholic relatives.
So, as we reach out for the glass and open the packet of cheese and onion crisps we are torn between our desire for the first and a slight concern that we might actually be turning into a roly-poly alcoholic medical statistic.
There is a third point...and this is familiar ground...How does crisp eating and red wine drinking affect my spirit!  Not good say I!  My good friends the Brahma Kumaris don't drink wine, I am not sure about crisps and I know that they are up earlier than me, the red wine drinker.  Their discipline gives them more time for God and more time for helping others.
Watch the film from Just this Day 2014 on You Tube, you will meet Sister Jayanti and two other speakers.  I don't know how many crisps the other speakers might munch or how many glasses of wine they drink but I do know that Sister Jayanti keeps clear of the enticing messages of the advertisers, you just can't imagine her WITH a packet of crisps let along eating one nor could you see her with a glass of wine, it just wouldn't fit.

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