Host Alisha Hicks explores Good Friday as the honest, weight-bearing place where lament and surrender meet restoration, tracing Jesus’ prayers from the garden to the cross and why felt absence is not failure.

Hear how the cross completes the work of reconciliation, learn to pray an honest lament, and discover a guided Good Friday breathwork practice to move from honesty into surrender and healing.

To join our Good Friday Breath & Prayer Session in The Woodlands Texas, register at www.living holistic.org

In this episode Alisha Hicks explores gardening as a spiritual practice—reconnecting with God’s original design by growing herbs for food, medicine, and ministry. She shares biblical garden principles, five easy-to-grow starter herbs (basil, mint, rosemary, lavender, chamomile), and practical tips for containers, planting, watering, harvesting, drying, and winter care.

The episode also emphasizes gardening as a space for prayer, teaching children, and generosity, and issues a simple challenge: plant one herb this week to begin a sustainable, faith-filled garden.

Host Alisha Hicks walks through Genesis 1 and across Scripture to reveal how God designed food for our bodies — a plant-first, Mediterranean-style pattern that Jesus and his followers ate. The episode traces the biblical food calendar, the role of herbs and olive oil, and how meat and fish fit as gifts for celebration.

Practical takeaways include making plants the foundation of meals, using olive oil and herbs, eating more fish, choosing seasonal whole foods, treating meat as occasional celebration food, and sharing meals in gratitude and community.

Want more biblical education and insight into natural wellness? Join us on The Biblical Herbalism Academy at Heritagehavens.com