bye bye caffeine

So I have decided to give up caffeine completely this week.   One of the reasons is that I never like becoming too dependent on coffee or pop and I like to de-tox to bring my levels back down.  And lately I have been getting into a caffeine habit and I really don't want to be one of those adults who has to have coffee to wake up in the morning.  Though I have to tell you that I am really excited about my first caffeine buzz after this week is over, it should be great!

One of the things that has made me think about my caffeine intake and admit that it was high lately was talking to Sam.  She's mormon and they don't drink coffee or teas and are strict about a lot of intake basically to keep their body pure.  Through my experience with her, it seems like the worship the body as the temple.  So that is in the Bible to treat your body as a temple and to be in control of it.  But sometimes it seems like it is much more to Sam.  It seems like a task to mark off on your way to heaven.  I personally love that most adult Christians I know drink coffee.  While we should take care of these bodies as vessels for Christ's work, they are just that:  jars to hold us in.  And I think that we should be willing to expend this vessel for the glory of God and to not be so attached to the Amercanized perfection through the flesh.

Another interesting insight to Mormons.  The sect that Sam is believe that you are married for eternity.  So that widows don't remarry.  I can't help but wonder how they reconcile this with the old testament command of the kinsman redeemer marrying a widow without children, or how Jesus states that there is no marriage at the resurrection.  I haven't asked her this yet.  I hope to have an opportunity to do so.