Fully Filtered

FILTER -

to sift through, to sort out, to weed out and/or separate unwanted material and remove impurities

Have you ever had city water straight from the tap? Yuck! Water shouldn't really taste like anything should it? Then you filter it....Yum! That's better!

When I decided to begin the journey of clearing out all the bad stuff in our home, it was overwhelming. It was too much to think about filtering everything at once, so I tackled it one item at a time, starting with cleaning products. I know I mentioned in a previous blog, how the toilet bowl cleaner literally melted the carpet and burned my foot. Yikes! This began my quest of filtering out all the unwanted and impure stuff in our home. It’s been a journey and a process, but well worth it! And one that will probably never end! From cleaning products, personal products, cosmetics and more…all the way to food, it’s been an adventure! Once I began reading labels on everything….it was quite enlightening. And frightening! And it seems every time I turn around, there’s new knowledge about another product we’re using that is not-so-great or downright unsafe. 

This is what started the idea of Blossom Body Products. Primarily for my family, but now for others as well, who are also on a quest for pure and natural ingredients in body products (like soap that we use every day!).

The efforts of attempting to filter out the ‘bad stuff’ are priceless. It’s remarkable how just one item at a time makes a difference! The amount of toxins might not be a big deal in just one product (safe for consumption), but it’s cumulative. Think about all the products we use in our environment and on our bodies daily, it adds up!  Completely removing toxins is unavoidable, but we can certainly reduce the amount that we are exposed to as to not become saturated.

Our immune system thanks us!  

So if we’re really looking and paying attention, we’re aware of the physical toxins in our environment. But what about the toxins floating around in our environment that enter our ears? What?? Yes, ears. Toxins in the ears, seeping into the brain, influencing our thinking and beliefs. How do we filter the toxins we are inundated with from the world?

How do we know what opinion, input, or advice to listen to out there? It can be difficult to discern up from down, in from out, and right from wrong. The lines have become quite blurred. So many varying opinions and thoughts. Who do we listen to? Who do we put our trust in? In a world full of ‘anything goes’ and ‘just follow your feels’, this can be confusing to say the least. How do we avoid becoming easily persuaded, influenced, convinced, and swayed?

Where do we turn? What’s our litmus?

Jesus. Jesus is our litmus. Jesus is the ONLY litmus. 

A good path to follow in filtering and discerning information and choices in this world:

1. Pray about it. Talk to God. Ask Him for wisdom and to reveal His truth.

2. Seek counsel from others who are wise and trusted; talk to others who also seek Him.

3. ALWAYS…ALWAYS…filter through God’s Word, let the Bible be your final litmus.  
   

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” 2 Tim 3:1-5

Such people? How do we recognize them? Is it easy to spot them? Or will they blend into the fold with everyone else? How can we know who or what to listen to? And what not to listen to? How do we know what way to go?

There's no denying we live in deceitful times where evil is considered good, and good is considered evil. More than ever we need to use a filter! To eliminate all the harmful contaminants in our lives. To know what way to go. Anything pulling us away from God's way is harmful!

Filter it out!