Food: Love-Hate Relationship.

Food intolerances are quite frustrating.  My second little "TEDling" (Total Elimination Diet) is very different from his older brother when it comes to food intolerances.  We've tried six solid foods now?

Bananas (constipation, sleep disruptions)
Pears (constipation, sleep disruptions)
Carrots (constipation, sleep disruptions)
Oats (eczema rash)
Green Beans (rash and acidic diapers)
Sweet Potatoes (reflux...but possibly due to the grain-free transition?)

With the sweet potatoes I had just gone "grain-free", so I'm not sure if the reflux symptoms were due to the potatoes or the change in my diet.  I'm suspecting that coconut is an issue for us, but I can't be sure until I eliminate it and try it later.  Currently he hasn't had sweet potato in over a week and he is still having some reflux symptoms.

It's hard because I feel like we are going backwards.  We were doing pretty well until we started solids. Now I just don't know, so I am going to scale back to the foods on our diet known to be the least allergenic.  There is still a chance that something not as well known to be a trigger is bothering him, but I am hoping to find a baseline.  It bothers me that he is 8 months old and doesn't have any solid food meals yet, although I read that solid foods for breastfed babies is more for the experience until the first birthday.

Seeking

In a recent sermon, our Pastor talked of seeking the Lord actively.  It's nothing new to me, I've heard it all before, but I heard God's voice emphasizing Pastor's words in me.  I want to seek the Lord.  I want the passion that I've seen in others where they just can't get enough of Jesus.

I have never been that way.  I want to know Him better, have that deeper relationship, and find that confidence in faith that others seem to have so easily.  My faith ebbs and flows.  It is a firm faith, a steady faith, but not that passionate faith others often speak of.

So if you think of me, you can pray for me, that I will put seeking God first and make those better choices.  I don't think having that passionate fervor for the Lord is what I necessarily need; I just want to value Him more than the little things that I allow to take away His time with me.  And I will pray the same for you. :)