I knew a day would come when my Coffee Addiction will be kept to test. And that day has arrived.

The scriptures this morning took me towards a rabbit hole of questioning the goodness of coffee and the aftermath of it in my body.

I strongly accept challenging thoughts...

The fact that Coffee = Caffeine

My foundation of coffee started as a need to become more active/productive (as a stimulant).

The coffee plant was discovered by a goat herder who found increased physical activity in his goats after they consumed coffee beans.

See coffee being a stimulant means we inject something into our body to add up how we act, move, and how our body functions.

Other notable stimulants consist of;
Cocaine
Nicotine
Ephedrine

Common aftermath includes alertness, wakefulness, arousal, heart rate and so on.

“Tea, coffee, and tobacco, as well as alcoholic drinks, are different degrees in the scale of artificial stimulants.” CD 421.4 ....

“The effect of tea and coffee, as heretofore shown, tends in the same direction as that of wine and cider, liquor and tobacco...” CD 421.5

Quoting E.White ... “Coffee is a hurtful indulgence. It temporarily excites the mind to unwonted action, but the aftereffect is exhaustion (which we don’t even oppose), prostration, paralysis of the mental, moral, and physical powers...

... The mind becomes enervated, and unless through determined effort the habit is overcome, the activity of the brain is permanently lessened”

I imagine coming from one cup of coffee a day to 4 cups of coffee a day originates from this.

“All these nerve irritants are wearing away the life forces, and the restlessness caused by shattered nerves, the impatience, the mental feebleness, become a warring element”

“Tired nerves need rest and quiet.”

Not stimulation

“Nature needs time to recuperate exhausted energies. But if forces are goaded on by use of stimulants, there is, whenever this process is repeated, a lessening of real force.”

“For a time more may be accomplished under the unnatural stimulus, but gradually it becomes more difficult to rouse the energies to the desired point, and at last exhausted nature can no longer respond. CD 422.1”

“Many who have accustomed themselves to the use of stimulating drinks, suffer from headache and nervous prostration, and lose much time on account of sickness.”

Mimi ni mhanga wa Migraines and atress headaches,

..They imagine they cannot live without the stimulus, and..

are ignorant of its effect upon health. What makes it the more dangerous is, that its evil effects are so often attributed to other causes.. CD 422.2

Imagine me knowing all the effects of Alcohol and choosing to stay away from it, and then daily drinking 3-4 cups of coffee... the Jazz

And “it is as difficult to break up the tea-and-coffee habit as it is for the inebriate to discontinue the use of liquor... CD 421.6”