Forward
In thinking about this book my mind kept coming back to my children and grandchildren. How do I reach them with the knowledge I have gleaned over the years? They think of me as a renegade who stopped going to church regularly years ago. Have they bothered to ask me why? This small e-book tells the story of my journey. No, it’s not an autobiography; I merely want all of them, and you, to know what I now have come to believe are the FACTS OF LIFE, and how I came to those conclusions.
The idea for the theme of the book came as I was reading one of Dolores Cannon’s books in the series entitled The Convoluted Universe. Therein she made mention of the fact that we don’t start babies out on solid food, but milk and baby food. The menu idea was born. Spirit Food—how better to reach and to teach?
It is common knowledge that no baby, as they grow, can stay on a perpetual diet of milk and baby food, but must at some time begin to be introduced to solid food. This is what I have attempted to do with this writing. What happens to a baby that never gets solid food? I’ll give you an illustration.
A friend and neighbor once decided he could make a lot of money raising calves (baby cows, for you city folks). He had discovered a market with a huge demand for these animals. He built a special barn, well heated, lighted and ventilated. Then he had numerous special small pens built that covered the floor, with only aisles separating row upon row. There must have been a couple hundred pens, as I recall. Then he filled the pens with calves. Most were of the dairy variety from large factory farms that produced milk. The factory farm had no need or provision for the calves that were born to the lactating mothers, so they were sold to people like my friend for food, or to others who raised them up to become milk-cows.
