That is awesome! Could be less inflammation in the joints and muscles from the more natural diet.

It's not just Adventists that are seeing the erosion of the wall separating church and state.
Others are seeing it as well.

The difficulty comes because some see the wall of separation as a wall that outlaws Christians to express their values in public.
Somehow people need to understand that the purpose of the wall is "freedom of religion" the freedom to live and express religion according their personal convictions, which means the state can't make laws enforcing everyone to observe one religion. The wall is not placed their to deny people religious expression.

Of course so many grey areas have been brought in that there is much confusion.
Freedom of Religion has been used to enable people who are against Christianity to put down Christian principles, values and beliefs and enforce their sinful ways to be accepted as normal, and demand no one has a right to uphold or even voice Christian values in public, or condemn sinful values in public.
That's not freedom of religion. It has actually torn down part of the wall by getting the state to deny religious expression, and sharing of one's values.

For example -- if a person sets up a nice display of the nativity on their front lawn or in some visible place, (in December) they may be criticized and told to take it down, as it is "offensive" to some people. While others can decorate visible places with grave stones with simulated body parts laying about and ghost like objects hanging from trees (in October) but that must not be criticized, even though it is very offensive to some people.

It's actually by misusing "freedom of religion" and turning it into a "freedom to promote sin" and hush up any people who may express concern, that causes the back lash -- when people WANT the state to start enforcing Christianity.

The scary part --
Those who oppose the move to take down the wall of separation, will be classified with the mobs who want "freedom to promote sin", even though they agree with Christian values, but oppose the separation because they want freedom to obey God's law as He gave it, and live according to His will. When governments start making laws on how and when to worship, persecution is not far behind.

Will the Adventist church ever be "in one accord" concerning the "prophetic message" that is the very foundation of Adventism?
When browsing forums it seems impossible as everyone who has a unique "study" is pushing their "new light", and prophecy begins to sound very confusing with nothing solid to stand on, yet, if we step back and view the core bases of where the church stands in it's prophetic understanding, there is a foundation.

A story of encouragement. God has given us precious light, but powers are trying to bury this light, yet, the promise -- the spurious will be taken away and the truths will shine brighter than ever before.

William's Dream
Found in "Early Writings" pages 81-83


I dreamed that God, by an unseen hand, sent me a curiously wrought casket about ten inches long by six square, made of ebony and pearls curiously inlaid. To the casket there was a key attached. I immediately took the key and opened the casket, when, to my wonder and surprise, I found it filled with all sorts and sizes of jewels, diamonds, precious stones, and gold and silver coin of every dimension and value, beautifully arranged in their several places in the casket; and thus arranged they reflected a light and glory equaled only to the sun.

I thought it was not my duty to enjoy this wonderful sight alone, although my heart was overjoyed at the brilliancy, beauty, and value of its contents. I therefore placed it on a center table in my room and gave out word that all who had a desire might come and see the most glorious and brilliant sight ever seen by man in this life.

The people began to come in, at first few in number, but increasing to a crowd. When they first looked into the casket, they would wonder and shout for joy. But when the spectators increased, everyone would begin to trouble the jewels, taking them out of the casket and scattering them on the table.

... I then began to plead with the people not to handle them, nor to take them out of the casket; but the more I pleaded, the more they scattered; and now they seemed to scatter them all over the room, on the floor and on every piece of furniture in the room.

I then saw that among the genuine jewels and coin they had scattered an innumerable quantity of spurious jewels and counterfeit coin. I was highly incensed at their base conduct and ingratitude, and reproved and reproached them for it; but the more I reproved, the more they scattered the spurious jewels and false coin among the genuine.

I then became vexed in my physical soul and began to use physical force to push them out of the room; but while I was pushing out one, three more would enter and bring in dirt and shavings and sand and all manner of rubbish, until they covered every one of the true jewels, diamonds, and coins, which were all excluded from sight. They also tore in pieces my casket
and scattered it among the rubbish. I thought no man regarded my sorrow or my anger. I became wholly discouraged and disheartened, and sat down and wept.


While I was thus weeping and mourning for my great loss and accountability, I remembered God, and earnestly prayed that He would send me help.

Immediately the door opened, and a man entered the room, the people all left; and he, having a dirt brush in his hand, opened the windows, and began to brush the dirt and rubbish from the room. I cried to him to forbear, for there were some precious jewels scattered among the rubbish.

He told me to "fear not," for he would "take care of them".

Then, while he brushed the dirt and rubbish, false jewels and counterfeit coin, all rose and went out of the window like a cloud, and the wind carried them away. In the bustle I closed my eyes for a moment; when I opened them, the rubbish was all gone. The precious jewels, the diamonds, the gold and silver coins, lay scattered in profusion all over the room.

He then placed on the table a casket, much larger and more beautiful than the former, and gathered up the jewels, the diamonds, the coins, by the handful, and cast them into the casket, till not one was left, although some of the diamonds were not bigger than the point of a pin.
He then called upon me to "come and see."
I looked into the casket, but my eyes were dazzled with the sight. They shone with ten times their former glory. I thought they had been scoured in the sand by the feet of those wicked persons who had scattered and trod them in the dust. They were arranged in beautiful order in the casket, every one in its place, without any visible pains of the man who cast them in. I shouted with very joy, and that shout awoke me.