The Reflective Christianنموونە

Sweet Toxins 

Day 1:

Our curious little girl was allowed to treat herself on Gems (Indian variant of M&M’s) for the first time in her life! Boy, did she enjoy it?! She indulged! Our eighteen month old glutton.

Day 2:

Granny leaves her daily morning dose of Tab. Lisinopril 5 mg (anti-hypertensive) on the common table, within reach of our ever curious mousie! Pink coloured, sugar-coated, a ‘mini’ Gems look alike! Did you underestimate our prodigy’s sense of associative memory? She did the entire family proud by nibbling away 2.5 mg of Tab. Lisinopril (Ain’t that cute?!). Her horrified Mommy and Granny were visibly shaken, that our little baby had ingested something that could be near fatal or irreversibly damaging her kidney functions!

While we rushed her to the Emergency Room of the hospital nearby and as her heart rate and BP were being monitored and her tender body pierced, blood drawn for analysis of toxicity levels and extent of damage, our enchanting little princess was oblivious to what she’d done to herself and us!

Right there, my thoughts drifted to the seemingly ‘sweet toxins’ we are exposed to daily. The toxins we ingest willingly, and the toxins we so relish and delight in, oblivious to the hole in the soul that they could punch! Designed, packed and marketed to lure and entice our heart, mind, and soul – to captivate and enslave and estrange us forever!

If only we will perceive the heinous weight of the internal, infernal and eternal damage that these will eventually cause, and seek to take the Great Physician’s help in purging these out of our system, we will have done well!

Shall we?!