JUDGMENT OR HEALTHY SEPERATION 🌱✨

JUDGMENT OR HEALTHY SEPARATION? 🌱🙏

Sharing my thoughts on why we choose to separate ourselves from certain spaces. This is not about judgment, but about protecting our peace and following our calling. If you read with an open heart, you’ll understand. 🌱🙏

Yes, we choose to separate ourselves from the world—especially from places where alcohol is consumed and animals are eaten—as much as possible. Not because we judge you. We were once like you.

But we don’t want to go back to how we felt when we lived that way. When we are invited to meals (which rarely happens), we often find there’s no food for us. If we bring our own, people get offended. Jokes about killing, eating, and abusing animals are common. Some think we can just eat meat or vegetarian food “for one day” to please them. But it doesn’t work like that.

Just as you might avoid a church or a table full of dog or cat corpses, we are free to avoid tables where pigs, lambs, and chickens have been sacrificed.

We also won’t be inviting many people for meals unless God calls us to. If someone can’t share one peaceful vegan meal with us without complaining, making excuses, or telling us stories of how they or someone they know “almost died from being vegan,” then maybe we aren’t meant to sit at the same table. If God has given us a calling to speak up for the voiceless, but you refuse to listen—even for a moment—then it’s okay to accept that we are simply not each other’s people. Let’s part ways in peace.

We are not judging you. We are just sharing how we feel.

For me (Natalia), this is deeply personal. Sometimes, I feel weak to my knees just seeing someone put cow’s milk in coffee or eggs in a cake. I smile, I try to be kind, but inside, I feel like crying. Because I know what happens in these industries—things most people don’t want to hear about. The forced breeding, the separation of babies from mothers, the enslavement, the abuse.

And maybe it hits me so hard because I have lived it too.

I was once sold by a man who claimed to love me. He did terrible things to me, excusing it as “natural” or “God-given”—just like people excuse the suffering of animals. Instead of working honestly or trusting that God would provide, he chose to profit from my pain.

So I cannot stay silent. I am called to speak.

But I have also learned that I must protect my own peace. I would rather share a simple meal with one or two friends who have mercy for all living beings than force myself to be in spaces that drain my spirit. And God has told me that this is okay. I do not have to sacrifice my peace for the comfort of others.

We are not here to judge or force anyone to change. We are the last people who could judge, because we, too, had to change in order to find God’s mercy. We were both homeless once, making bad choices, trying to be our own saviors instead of seeking God’s truth. And we felt so sick, lost, and hunted.

Now, we don’t want to hunt or condemn anyone.

We are free spirits, and so are you.

But I will continue to obey my calling—to call people to stop sacrificing animals, to stop justifying their suffering. And if that message is too much for you, if you cannot even share one peaceful meal with us without conflict, then maybe it is time for us to walk separate paths.

We trust God will show us the way. He will provide for us, and we will never again have to compromise our peace.

We wish you freedom, health, and a long life.

Peace be with you. 🍇🥖🌱💚

— Dmitrijs & Natalia Botvinjevs / Dima and Nat

Chika the 12 year old vegen Dog 🩷

Find us on youtube too - Dima and Nat

Sometimes we post videos of our life and food if you need inspiration 🥖🍇🌱 🥰 🙏

Like here I make the Polish Bigos/ kale stew. 

https://youtu.be/QcPjB1FbC7g?si=BiOYGTyKl8GFdH46