I Used To Think God Designed Our Bodies Perfectly

Notes from the Type 2 Diabetic Diaries

MSN just posted the 8 Reasons to Believe in God, and some of the top reasons are “moral compass”, “belief in the eternal”, “the complexities of the universe”, and “scriptural accounts”, just to name a few.

Yes, the presence of good and evil made the list as well, and truthfully that no longer bothers me because I know that to know good, there must be evil somewhere, but lately I’ve been wondering: Did God really fine tune our bodies, or are we just weak and make excuses to make the Creator seem very strong?

Diagnosis and the contradictions

Since being diagnosed with T2D(Type 2 Diabetes), I have been learning so many things that contradict why we have diabetes. Yes, it involves a lifestyle change and yes, sugar is only a small part of the problem but there is not enough research on if it actually causes diabetes.

I learned that people can get diabetes even with a superior, healthy lifestyle!

In my support group, I learned about two sisters who both developed T2D and they were fit! One sister joined MMA and the other was very fit and healthy as well. Their mother had diabetes and so since birth, the sisters were enrolled in fitness and ate super healthy…for 30 years!

One of them developed gestational diabetes which is from pregnancy and usually temporary, but it developed over time into full blown diabetes. The other sister, no matter how active she was, could never lose weight since childhood and developed diabetes as well.

Diabetes is genetic mostly. In fact, it definitely is genetic but also linked to fat being inside the pancreas and liver as one study revealed. People who were fit or at least physically active were found to have developed or will develop Type 2 Diabetes as well.

Comparing diabetes to other illnesses

This is scary.

Even though diabetes is not cancer or some other highly terminal illness, it is a disease that causes depression in many diabetics because of the constant checking of glucose levels daily and the fear of one day developing neuropathy or losing sight due to high blood sugars. Its daunting having to work out every. Single. Day. Or eat mostly veggies. So yes, depression is found in many of us.

This leads me to the question: If people are eating healthy and staying active, why would a nasty illness like this creep up on them? Even though food is not a total highlight of everyone’s life.

I enjoy being a foodie most days and thinking up sweet, savory creative meals is fun!

However, I must locate the carb and sugar information and had to say goodbye to the chocolates my husband would buy me during my “special time of the month”

Our bodies are not perfect.

Some religious folk may say, “Well it’s because of man. Eve caused this and Adam allowed it.”

I get it.

I used to say that too, to explain children with cancer, or deaf and blind people and folks with horrible illnesses. Yet, none of it explains why we are such weak vessels today.

I should be able to enjoy sweet snacks and chill while not pricking my finger because my pancreas is on vacation.

God did not design us perfectly.

Even James 4:14 in scripture says, “we are but a vapor” — meaning we were not outfitted for a longer life span. The bible clearly indicates 120 years was all we were allowed to get anyway, and in some blue zones, there are people living past 100 on average, but not 120 years yet.

I don’t know. I don’t have the answers.

I guess in some ways we are truly exceptional in our abilities to think, to create, and to even manage our health and in other ways we are just succumbing to the battle of life. We all do at some point.

Thanks for reading!