Kombucha Living

Though I don't ride a fixie bike and my slimmest jeans aren't technically "skinny", I have been drawn by another trend sweeping The Nation: Kombucha.

Kombucha is a fermented tea that is low in carbs/cals, and is naturally effervescent (it tingles in your mouth when you drink it). It's a "living" food, meaning that it contains live cultures and enzymes, as well as some other stuff that's supposed to be good for you. If you were to look at it with a microscope you'd see some little "creatures" doing the backstroke.

Kombucha has the aroma of an unrinsed Odwalla bottle--after it's been sitting in your recycling bin with the cap on for a couple days. But, I'm telling you, it tastes and feels great!

I've been journaling recently (I use the Life Journal and its accompanying reading plan), and have been thinking a lot about my faith. Again and again God's word challenges me in this. I want faith to characterize my whole life; that's what the Bible encourages. I want to ever be in hot pursuit of a faith-FULL life, even though on this side of heaven I know I'll never hit perfection. Still, like the apostle Paul, I desire to press on.

God's word is living and active...and so is faith. I believe lots of things that God says. At times I wish that were the sum total of real faith. But it's not. Actively living out what I believe is what makes my faith real. (Help!!!) A quick example: I believe God loves (welcomes, honors, esteems) all His children, and that I am to do the same. And yet, how many times throughout each day do I miss or even avoid this opportunity? In the store, in line at Verve coffee roasters, as I'm dropping my son off at Kindergarten...

A life of living and active faith has an effervescent quality to it. And unlike Kombucha, it doesn't stink! On the contrary, its aroma of is very sweet. More and more, I want that kind of fragrance being released by my life.