Hey y’all, and welcome back to Monday Manna.
We’ve got a confession that has been heavy on our hearts for a long time, but first, a little life from our house. It is the last week of school for the kids, and yesterday we kicked off the 41-Day Bible Health Metabolic Makeover with our very first live group discipleship class. The room was just as full and honest as we have hoped and prayed for, and it was such a blessing — especially because we missed the mark (see confession below).
Grab your matcha latte, and let’s catch up. :)
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The Thing God Told Us to Do in 2019
Flashback to when 46-year-old Mama Z nearly broke the internet by running the family 1-mile fun run at 40 weeks pregnant and 3 days overdue. That race reached 5 million views and 50K likes. Watch the short clip and join the conversation on Facebook, or on Instagram
This reel also brought a lot of backlash from people who thought our message was meant to shame them. It wasn’t. The message was never, “Do what we do.” It was, “Do not let fear, labels, age, trends, or the world’s expectations steal the joy and strength God put in your body.”
This is why launching the Metabolic Makeover Discipleship Group this week matters so much to us. A) because your body is not a vanity project, it’s stewardship. And B) because it is something we felt God told us to do years ago, but dragged our heels…
Here is a confession to start your week. The six-week Bible study we kicked off yesterday afternoon is something God put on our hearts back in 2019. Not last year, not last quarter. All the way back in 2019.
We knew we were supposed to gather Christian families and walk them through this, and then life did what life does. Remember COVID six years old? Yeah, that turned the whole world sideways, three more babies joined our table since then, our Bible Health ministry grew in ways that ate our calendars, and a string of personal and family crises kept pulling us off the one thing we knew God had asked us to build.
So when we logged on for that first session yesterday, the feeling was not nerves. It was the strange ache of finally doing something we should have done years ago. We are not going to dress that up for you. We let good distractions and real hardships keep us from a clear assignment for the better part of seven years, and we suspect more than a few of you reading this know exactly what that feels like in your own home.
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It put us in mind of a single verse most people read right past.
“It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.” — Deuteronomy 1:2
Eleven days. That was the whole distance between where God’s people were standing and the land He had already promised them. Eleven days. And it took them forty years to make the trip.
The delay was never about the distance. When they reached the edge of the Promised Land, they sent in spies, the report came back that the land was good but the giants were real, and fear won the vote. They would not walk through the door God was holding open, so a journey of eleven days became a generation of wandering, one year in the wilderness for every day the spies had spent scouting the land they were too afraid to enter.
We see ourselves in that story, and we have a feeling you might too. Maybe God put something in front of you years ago, a change in how you eat, how you sleep, how you care for the body He gave you, and the giants of a busy life have kept you wandering ever since. Here is the grace in it. The door did not close. The same God who held the land open for Israel is holding something open for you, and the trip is still only eleven days long the moment you decide to take the first step. For our family, that first step was yesterday.
Before we get into everything we published this week, here is a word for your week...
Non-Toxic Essentials for a Healthier You
Pro Tip: Start with the everyday products your family actually uses, then make cleaner swaps from our non-toxic essentials list on Amazon. Shop here.
YOUR DAILY MANNA
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.” — 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Paul reaches for the one picture every believer in Corinth understood, the athlete in training, and he does something the modern church has been slow to do. He puts the body squarely inside the spiritual life. The same man who wrote that we are saved by grace and not by works also said he disciplined his body and kept it under control, because he refused to preach a freedom he was not willing to live in his own flesh.
Notice he never frames the training as punishment. The athlete exercises self-control because there is a prize worth wanting, not because the body is the enemy. That is the difference between a diet and a discipleship. A diet runs on guilt and white-knuckled willpower, and it always runs out. Training runs on a goal you can see, and it builds the kind of strength that lasts past the season.
This is the heart of the 41 days behind the Metabolic Makeover Discipleship Group, and it is the heart of Bible Health. We are not chasing a perishable wreath, a smaller size by summer that we lose again by fall. We are stewarding a body that houses the Spirit of the living God, and we are doing it on purpose, with self-control that the Spirit grows in us rather than discipline we manufacture alone.
This week, pick one place where your body has been running aimlessly, the late-night sugar, the skipped sleep, the meal eaten standing over the sink, and bring it under control with a single deliberate choice. Not all of it. One. Run that race to win.
Non-Toxic Essentials for a Healthier You
Pro Tip: Start with the everyday products your family actually uses, then make cleaner swaps from our non-toxic essentials list on Amazon. Shop here.
Here is everything we shipped on Bible Health since Monday Manna #4, plus three of our favorite tips from Natural Living Family.
Why Christians Can’t Lose Weight. This is the article we have wanted to write for years, and it is the one to send to anyone who has tried everything and still cannot understand why the weight will not move. If you read one thing this week, read this, and prayerfully consider sharing with your church family and loved ones.
The GLP-1 Conversation Christians Aren’t Having. Everyone is talking about the new weight-loss miracle, and almost no one is talking about them the way a thinking Christian should. This is our deep dive on testing the whole conversation through Scripture, what these drugs actually do, and how to hold wisdom and grace at the same time, without fear and without hype. We went all the way in on this one.
[LIVE] The 4 Toxins in Every Christian Home (And the 41-Day Detox). This is the replay of Day 3, the finale of our free 3-Day Foundations Workshop, where we named the four environments quietly filling the bucket in every Christian home and handed the first swaps you can make tonight. If you missed any of the three days live, the full workshop now lives in the Vault, and this is the on-ramp to the 41 days we just began.
FROM NATURAL LIVING FAMILY
We have been busy on the Natural Living Family side this week, and the timing could not have been better for a metabolic makeover week. While Dr. Z was teaching the why, Mama Z was over there teaching the how, the small daily swaps that make the convictions livable. Three of them landed right where this week needed them.
DIY Facial Cleanser + Neroli Oil + Why You Should Avoid Dairy. We rounds up our whole dairy-alternatives guide here… it’s a super deep dive that answers all of your questions about why we recommend avoid it, and the cleaner swaps for milk products. If cutting inflammatory foods has felt overwhelming, this is the best place to start.
DIY Plug-In Swap + Healing Sandalwood Oil + Black Bean Brownies. Two of the biggest levers on metabolism are the sleep you are getting and the fragrance you are breathing while you get it. We walks through Mama Z’s DIY swap for the plug-in air fresheners hiding in the bedroom and the bedtime mineral she leans on when sleep will not come. Better sleep is one of the fastest quick wins there is.
Marjoram Oil + DIY Dried Fruit Snacks + Healing Benefits of Gardening. This one is our favorite kind of medicine, the kind that does not feel like medicine. We make the case for what putting your hands in the dirt does for stress, mood, and strength, and she shares the dye-free berry lemonade we are making on the deck instead of reaching for the sugary stuff. Stewardship can taste like summer.
These DIY Tips are too good not to share.
Spotlight: It Keeps Lingering On... Does It Seem Like Everyone Around You Isn’t Feeling Well?
Yep, us too.
This is that strange time of year when cold and flu season should be winding down, but warm weather, high pollen counts, travel, school germs, and changing routines still have families feeling run down.
Runny noses are everywhere.
Kids are bringing things home.
And immune systems are working hard.
One thing we like to keep stocked in our home is ZINC 7.
Here’s why.
Zinc is one of the most important minerals for normal immune function, healthy inflammatory balance, skin, teeth, gums, and everyday metabolic health. It also plays a key role in the body’s normal response during high-pollen, high-exposure seasons.
And many families may not be getting enough.
Sometimes the diet is low in zinc-rich foods.
Sometimes stress, poor sleep, and processed food make the body’s needs higher.
And sometimes people take a basic zinc supplement that only includes one or two forms.
That is why Zinc 7 caught our attention...
It gives you all seven forms of this important mineral in one simple formula, making it an easy way to help fill the gap when your family needs daily immune nourishment.
If sneezing, pollen stress, poor sleep, worn-down energy, or that “everyone around us is getting something” feeling has been showing up in your house, this is a smart time to learn what zinc does and why the right form matters.
—> Discover the 5 warning signs of low zinc levels and our favorite way to get all 7 forms every day.
Pro tip: Never take zinc on an empty stomach. Taking zinc with food is highly recommended because it can improve tolerance and reduce the risk of nausea, stomach cramps, or a metallic taste.
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As always, our hope and prayer is that you experience the abundant life.
~ Dr. Z & Mama Z
P.S. If your family is still dealing with sneezing, runny noses, itchy eyes, poor sleep, or that worn-down feeling, do not wait until everyone is fully run down. Zinc is one of those foundational minerals we like to keep on hand during high-pollen, high-exposure seasons. Just remember to take it with food so it is easier on the stomach.
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