The most frustrating part was that she had no reason for this decision! When I would ask, she would say she was only doing it to submit to God!
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(<- That's how I kept feeling). I had my doubts about whether she was really hearing from God or not, so I had a very hard time with this. I made a new friend at work who is vegetarian (vegan, in fact), and he was very helpful in convincing me that it's cool to be a vegetarian (well, cool in the same way I am about other things
). I decided to stop eating what little meat I did eat and stop complaining about the rule, even if I did think it was kind of stupid.However...
While researching the problem I have (the reason I get so angry and emotional with people over very minor things), I discovered something that I had never seen before: that a vegetarian diet (especially one that's low in fat) can help improve the symptoms.
It was one of those "Oh." moments. My mom didn't know why she had to submit to God (and thus make me submit to her) in this one area, but she did anyways. And I didn't know why I had to submit to her, but I had finally decided to anyways.
And did everyone notice how much more managable I was this month? Yay! I imagine the combination of obedience and physiological factors is very good for my condition.
Far better even than taking my vitamins and exercising and getting lots of sleep, I'm sure.Anyways, I just wanted to share that with everyone. For me, the vegetarianism issue was the hardest one of my mom's rules for me to submit to, because it seemed so absolutely pointless and arbitrary. But God showed me that even things that seem really stupid or pointless or useless may in fact be very important-- and may yield wonderful results when we are obedient and submissive.
-Rachael
