"Whoever receives one such little child for My sake, receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him Who sent Me".

Imagine places where people get old without getting sick and where they die peacefully in their sleep at the end of a ripe old age. In fact, many books have been written about such places since Weston Price D.D.S. wrote NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION first published in 1938 with many editions since.

Imagine…no drugs, no hospitals, ho health insurance, no psychiatrists, no jails, no medical bills…it must be close to heaven. Can God be that good? If God is that good surely Jesus must have said something about it. Let’s see…

From the above you might think Jesus is saying "eat and drink any old thing" but that is not what He is said. What Jesus said is TRUST THE SYSTEM "O you of little faith". Trust what God made for you who are of much more value than a sparrow. That’s a far cry from "trust a white flour hamburger bun". That's a far cry from "trust all the fake foods that someone took thought to make profits from at the expense of your health and wholeness". That's a far cry from "trust the (mad) scientists who want to genetically re-engineer the human food supply".

It’s clear that Jesus loved babies and small children, but did He teach anything about breast-feeding? It would seem to make sense that if God has a plan for adult human nutrition and wholeness He wouldn’t leave babies out. That wouldn’t be consistent.

Actually there are five references to breastfeeding in the New Testament...two in Matthew, one in Mark, and two in Luke. The most important is found in the gospel of Matthew, 21;16 because it reflects a specific divine attitude about the subject.

Some were upset that Jesus was getting too much praise from children in the temple who were crying "Hosanna to the Son of David". They asked Jesus "Didn’t He know what they were saying"? Jesus reply was..."Yes; have you never read 'Out of the mouths of infants and sucklings thou has perfected praise?"

Jesus is quoting from Psalm 8;2. The important word with respect to breastfeeding is "suckling". The Latin from the Latin Vulgate is LACTANTIUM or LACTENTIUM...a clear reference to milk. The Greek root word for the Latin translation is THELAZO meaning "to suckle". This is clearly not a general reference to babies or infants because the sentence already has a word for "infants" in it. The word "suckling" clearly refers not to any infant but to a NURSING infant.

The question is...why would Jesus use a reference to NURSING infants as an example of "perfected praise"? Wouldn't a simple reference to babies or children in general be enough to make His point? Any mother or father who has watched the behavior of infants who are nursing or who have just finished nursing from a healthy and happy mother should know the answer to these questions. A nursing infant looking up into a mother's eyes will often show signs and make sounds of…PRAISE.

Babies can talk back. Communication works two ways. There is a holy communion between mother and baby. Perhaps this is our world's clearest example of perfect love as well as perfect praise, and it doesn't stop there. After nursing from a healthy and happy mother a baby will throw its hands back over its head in the position that all healthy babies sleep in. You will see the edges of tiny lips curl upward in a noticeable smile. It’s not a big smile, but it is a smile. It's one of the most beautiful smiles you will ever see on planet earth. That smile alone is PRAISE indeed.

As Jesus explained, a man's words tell you what's in his heart. In the "suckling" quote Jesus is clarifying what He says in many other places...that His heart is with children and babies and now also with nursing infants. It’s consistent. It makes perfect sense.

If the heart of Jesus is with nursing infants where should our hearts be if we want to follow Him…but there is more to the story. Nutritional studies have taught us many details that confirm what Jesus said. Love agrees with truth. How one-derful!

More on mother’s milk…

Cow’s milk…human milk…goat milk…horse milk…dolphin milk…pig milk…it’s all white stuff. Why not mix them up and raise a goat on pig milk, a calf on horse milk, or a human baby on cow’s milk? Maybe God didn’t know what He was doing?

Like a baby deer a newborn calf may need strong legs quickly to run from a wolf or wild dog. We now know that cow milk has the perfect balance of minerals and amino acids and too much more to mention that a baby cow needs to develop big bones first and a small brain later.

On the other hand human mother's milk has the perfect balance of minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids that a human baby needs to develop a big brain and nervous system first with big bones not so immediately important. God knows that His children need a whole brain to help them learn to love Him and each other with their "whole minds" and to learn which way is up. There is also perfect support for a baby’s immune system and a bonding connection to a nearby heart beating with a mother’s love…a package deal…but the good news doesn’t stop there.

As reported by Jean Carper in USA Weekend Sept 26-28, 2008…"Who knew how dramatically it (breastfeeding) benefits a mother? I didn’t until I read a new Swedish study of 18,326 women, showing that mothers who breast-fed infants for 13 months or more were about half as apt to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as those who did not breast-feed. Experts can’t fully explain the surprise, but they note that breast-feeding can change levels of immune-regulating hormones in ways that may discourage RA. There’s more: A large analysis last year concluded that breast-feeding also might protect mothers against type 2 diabetes and breast and ovarian cancer (more information at womanshealth.gov/breastfeeding).

Jesus had it right. Paul had it right - "all things work together for good". Modern nutrition agrees. The mystery question is…why has what Jesus thought and taught about breastfeeding been a gospel "secret" hiding in plain sight while breasts were exchanged for bottles? Is the WORD OF CHRIST that unimportant?

The next time you talk to a priest, pastor, deacon, or elder in a church, be sure to ask…WHAT DID JESUS TEACH ABOUT BREASTFEEDING? Also ask…

A drug and money based medical system that ignores foundational and nutritional healing using things made by God; a toxic system for growing foods; unaffordable "SICK care"; poisoning of the planet; too high cancer and disease rates; sick songs; sick movies; sick people; war, threats, blustering; divorce rates; abortion rates; gluttony; overweight rates; animal torture to support the profits of drug companies to "help" people who won't take responsibility for their own health; going to church and pretending you "love thy neighbor" while you poison his water supply trying to make your lawn look pretty; hyperactivity rates; depression; confusion rates; "salvation" confusion; troubled people rates; crowded teeth rates; poor posture rates; frown rates; addiction rates; factory farming animal abuse rates; hormonal confusion related to sexual confusion rates; child abuse rates; GMO tinker toying with life by mad scientists who can’t make one blade of grass; spiritual confusion; indifference; 400 "dead zones" in oceans...and this list could go on and on.

All of the above might seem like separate problems that require separate band-aid solutions. The human mind tends to work piecemeal and divisively. But remember… " A tree is known by its fruits". Also remember "With God all things are possible".

You could work on things that need healing band-aid by band-aid or you could take a Godly approach and heal it all at once. It might seem that it would take the world’s largest army of healers each working on a different thing to get the job done, but if we understand how seed translates into fruit and how consistency translates into wholeness we should begin to understand how wholeness heals all things.

Can we see the forest or are trees in the way? Instead of a thousand band-aids applied on this or that sick leaf or twig why not get to the ROOT of the problem?

What if we started planting a new kind of tree? What if we started the healing process at the seed and ground level by putting to work the healing power in "THE WORD" in pulpits and Sunday school classes throughout the land? Would the sick and the sickening at the branch and leaf level stay sick and sickening for very long?

Of course it takes time for a seed to grow and produce healthy fruit, but if you never plant the seed when will you ever get a healthy crop? Many reading this can’t remember the day that cancer, heart disease, and diabetes were rare diseases. After antibiotics with communicable diseases under control and people living longer doctors said "people are living long enough to get them" referring to degenerative diseases of old age. But in some societies people live long enough and do not get them. Alzheimer’s at ever younger ages…babies born with arthritis…high school athletes falling over from heart attacks…are they living long enough to get them?

Without wholeness taught from the highest level of moral authority how can you expect to find it at a lower level? It should be no surprise to find it missing at the birth level and all that comes later on in life. It should be no surprise to find it missing at the ground level and all things higher up that you can think of including the working of the human brain. There is wholeness in life but with wholeness missing at both higher and lower levels the children of God are caught in the middle. OUCH!

Let’s not blame God or Jesus for this. God did His part. Jesus did His part. But what are we hearing from those who stand between God and man speaking from pulpits? Let’s compare that to gospel "secrets" that have been hiding in plain sight for 2000 years that you may be learning about for the first time in this report! Let’s compare that to what Jesus said about things like seeds and nursing babies and the sick and the sickening and loving God with whole minds, hearts, and souls and your neighbor as yourself and BE MERCIFUL for heaven’s sake and for the economy’s sake too.

It shouldn’t take long to realize that the ROOT problem is not at the "mother milk" level. The ROOT problem is at the "milk of the word" level (words used by Peter in his first letter referring to the word of Christ as "incorruptible seed"). When His word is in us how could we be misled by false gods and abominable violations of nature.? With HIS WORD in us a natural respect for the support system for our wholeness could and should have saved us from what we now see all around us.

What have we been eating? What have we been drinking? What are we being fed?

Every word of this report has just one purpose…to point to the healing power in the "milk of the word". Let’s not cry over spilt milk but why keep spilling what is precious when It has such power to heal all things at the ROOT level of life?

Smile. There is wholeness in life.

MY DREAM - I awoke with my hands high above my head. I just had the most wonderful dream. I was given a multiple choice problem to solve. At the top were the words MOTHER and BABY. Below were several choices that I was to choose from to go with those two words.

In my dream...in my mind...I searched for the right words to fit the puzzle. I did not find the answer. The answer was given to me. Suddenly like a bolt of lightning the answer was seared into my soul...MOTHER'S MILK. These were not my words.

Pondering my dream - several days went by. The accountant for my business who shared an office happened "by coincidence" to give me a copy of his church bulletin. I glanced through it...still thinking about my dream. Suddenly some words really grabbed my attention. My heart took a leap. It was a quote from 1 Peter 2:2...

Imagine how I felt...the words of Jesus as important to a struggling soul as mother's milk to a newborn baby! It made perfect sense then. It makes perfect sense now. What doesn't make sense is spilt milk and the crying that follows. My soul still reverberates from that dream...but what to do about it? Mother's milk and spiritual milk - both essential to health and life but how do you get ears to hear? How sick must things get before we "hear Him"?

As for understanding this dream the word that covers all bases is wholeness (or "fullness"). The other side of the coin is oneness (John 17). In our oneness with Father and Son we are made whole. The Word and example of Christ lead us to wholeness and oneness with Him and with each other. The scriptural quotes on the other side of this page should help to clarify and confirm all of this.