by Lynn Price

Someone once observed, “If you gain one pound a year after you’re married, by the time you’ve been married 50 years, you’ll have gained 50 pounds.”

When I married, my husband and I agreed that after the birth of each child, I had to regain my pre-pregnancy weight before I could get pregnant again. This plan worked well for my first four children. And then we moved to Germany.

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by Danielle Ellis

As the third part of our series on Provident Living, this issue of Desert Saints Magazine focuses on Physical Health. Since our bodies are the means through which our spirits must work and live on this earth, their functionality is key. If we allow our health to break down, we are unable to learn, grow, serve and find joy in all the ways the Lord has promised to us.

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by Dave Ellis

I don’t know how they did it. My parents made raising us kids looks so easy. I feel it was a bit deceptive. We kids, or us kids, whatever, would be playing out back and then my mom would call us in for dinner and POOF it was ready. We’d come home from school and POOF Christmas decorations were up. We’d ask our parents to make some POOF and POOF the POOF was there!

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by Shannon Pointer

Why are we counseled to eat “in the season thereof”?

It’s probably easier on the budget, but as we continue to learn about food, we are learning why, for instance, we should eat strawberries in the spring rather than in January. Strawberries ripen in the spring and they also happen to be a natural blood thinner and a perfect food to prepare the body for warmer weather.

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by Danielle Ellis

Exercise is always on my to-do list. Yet with four young children and a hectic schedule, exercise seems to always get crowded out of my schedule. A few months ago I decided to do something about it.

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