Salt

I have been on a low-sodium diet for several months now. It was hard to adapt to at first, but now that we have gotten the hang of it, things come much easier.

How did we accomplish this? Well, we started with the obvious. The salt shaker got put away. I was so accustomed to adding salt, I did it without noticing. After that, things got tougher. Salt is in everything. Don't believe me, check the sodium contents of about everything you buy at the grocery store. Who would of thought that finding "No Salt Added Ketchup" would be seen as a small victory?

I have gotten to the point now that the other day I took a bite of something that had salt in it, and it was a shock to my system. All I could taste was the salt. A big key to getting to this point is finding other spices to substitute for the salt, and I don't mean just pepper of some kind. Who would have ever thought I would reach this point?

I sat and thought about this the other day and realized that my journey to become salt free mirrored the efforts of society to become Christian free. We are taught in the Bible to be salt, but back in the 1960s and 1970s there were some people that thought society would be better off if Christians were silenced. They went after the salt shaker first and before we knew it, there was no prayer in schools. The Christians were okay with that because you could find Christian teachings everywhere, but before long, the Ten Commandments were gone, and it just continued.

We have reached the point now that whenever a tragedy occurs, we Christians try to rush in and show Jesus to those involved. We are met with skepticism and often pushed away. It is a shock to the system of society. They just can't handle the whole salt shaker being thrown at them at once.

I am beginning to believe that things would go better if we Christians would start being a little salt daily in our neighborhoods.