It's made me feel sad to hear of all the people I know and love to be ill, dying, fighting cancer, having strokes, waiting for donor organs and then knowing of the spouse and children and parent's sadness and struggles to cope, to say nothing of the person afflicted and trying to cope, to survive. And it's been at the top surface of my mind the last few days. Then today as I was driving about to my jobs, I heard the song, Life is Hard, but God is Good. And the part of the verse where it says, God never promised it would be easy, but He said you'd never be alone, hit me and comforted me and I hope it comforts you, too.
Oh, won't it be wonderful to get to heaven! No more sickness, death, pain, strokes, cancer, organ failure and whatever else ails us. Oh, the stories we will have to share with one another, the tears God will wipe away, and our joyous laughter that the old world is no more.
Let us all take hope and courage in Jesus Christ when our own hope and courage fails. This world is not our home.
Praying for each of you.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
end of May/ start of June
Next week is a mini "vacation". It's campmeeting time. So no church as usual. Then the following week we will be reading the first 14 chapters of Job and will do that for 3 weeks (14 chapters) then we will be done with Job. Even though Job's friends erred in their explanations of Job's sufferings, there are many truths remaining about God, pick your favorites as you read along. Some of them are so awesome and others so comforting. I have more stuff outlined in Job than the previous chapters of the Bible.
There will be no scrapbooking/ stamping class the first Tuesday of June. We all need a rest and then we will see how things go for July.
There will be no scrapbooking/ stamping class the first Tuesday of June. We all need a rest and then we will see how things go for July.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Day Trippin' With God
Sabbath school, read the book of Esther this week. Where do you fit in this book? If there was a play which role would you like to play or which role would you feel the most comfortable playing?
Now to the title subject. Sometimes I get lonely, need some spice in my life or what ever and God so often is that friend and that spice in my life. I wanted to share this with you because it's not what one might think about but it is a delight to me.
I went to the thrift store here in Delta, there's only one, and I was looking for more children's books because I love to see Rachel enjoying them. I remember how much I loved books and well, you know....we like to give what we like to get. Anyway, some dufus had put some adult books in with the childrens books. One of them was a book entitled, Feast Here Awhile; Adventures in American Eating by Jo Brans. It looked interesting so I threw it in my pile to peruse as to whether I wanted to purchase it. Then I found the book Microwave Gourmet by Barbara Kafka, I started to put it back, but it was such a large book on microwave cooking that I took a second look and put that in my pile, also. Finally, I had this huge pile of books so I sat down and made the decisions. Had some wicked child scribbled over each picture with black crayon and therefore it was ruined, was the story decent for a young child. Was the art work good. When I got to the 2 books for me, well, Feast looked interesting and Microwave actually was written by a woman who was skeptical about microwaves and learned how they worked and what you could really do with them. So I got them both.
Got home picked up Feast and it was well written and enjoyable. She talked about eating as a child and then learning to cook on her own and then cooking trends in her adult life, various chefs who influenced America and her, cookbooks, etc. But the prize to me was on page 108. and I hope she forgives me for quoting. She was talking about church sponsored cookbooks for fund raisers.
"Sometimes a community, however well knit, has a resident heretic, like Mickey (Mrs. Gerald) Sandridge, whose Best Ever Rum Cake considerably enlivens Sharing Our Best, the publication of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Here's the recipe:
Best Ever Rum Cake
1 or 2 qt. rum baking powder
1 c.butter 1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. sugar lemon juice
2 large eggs brown sugar
1 c. dried fruit nuts
Before you start, sample the rum to check the quality. Good, isn't it? Now go ahead, select a large mixing bowl, measuring cups, etc. Check the rum again, it must be just right. To be sure the rum is of the highest quality, pour one level cup of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. Now with electric, beat one cup of butter in large fluffy bowl. Add one seaspoon of thugar and beat again. Meanwhile make sure rum is of highest quadidy. Add 2 argeLeggs, 2 pucs of fried druit, and beat until high. If druit gets stuck in beaters, pry it joose with a drewscriver. Sample the rum again, checking for highest conscisticity. Next, sift 3 cups pepper or salt (it really does not matter which). Sample the rum again. Sift 1/2 pint lemon juice. Add 1 Babblespood brown thugar (or whatever color you can find). Wix mell. Grease oven and turn cake pan to 350 gredees. Now, pour the mhole wess into the boven and ake. Check the rum again and go to bed.
Now wasn't that funny! I certainly laughed myself silly!
So then I started reading the Microwave Gourmet the next day and this woman can make jam in the microwave! And I keep thinking this author sounded familar, well, yes she is, she was in the Feast Here Awhile book. So I got on the internet and Barbara Kafka is quite the cookbook author.
Vegetable Love
Soup, A way of Life
Roasting, A Simple Art
Party Food
as well as the one I now own.
Then I started laughing, God did this to me earlier in the year to get me to read Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains and thereby get a better understanding about Haiti. He had led me book by book to get me to that book.
I have been missing creative cooking ideas and need more veggie ideas since potluck at church is veggie, just incase someone in church feels eating meat is sinful and unhealthy (okay it is healthier to not eat meat but that ain't the only thing honey, watch us throng to the dessert table!)
Anyway, I had a good laugh at God's love to me and I know He had a good laugh at me laughing about His sneaky way to give me fun and love.
You know that song, Will I dance for You, Jesus, etc, etc? Well, I've often wondered what I would be like with Jesus when we have our special time. One day I heard a whisper and saw a picture in my mind that I would hang onto His hand and talk and talk and talk about all the cool things He's done that makes me happy and I'd ask Him a thousand questions and we'd laugh a lot. Now isn't that just like me? Dancing around and being silly happy! Yup, that's love!
Now to the title subject. Sometimes I get lonely, need some spice in my life or what ever and God so often is that friend and that spice in my life. I wanted to share this with you because it's not what one might think about but it is a delight to me.
I went to the thrift store here in Delta, there's only one, and I was looking for more children's books because I love to see Rachel enjoying them. I remember how much I loved books and well, you know....we like to give what we like to get. Anyway, some dufus had put some adult books in with the childrens books. One of them was a book entitled, Feast Here Awhile; Adventures in American Eating by Jo Brans. It looked interesting so I threw it in my pile to peruse as to whether I wanted to purchase it. Then I found the book Microwave Gourmet by Barbara Kafka, I started to put it back, but it was such a large book on microwave cooking that I took a second look and put that in my pile, also. Finally, I had this huge pile of books so I sat down and made the decisions. Had some wicked child scribbled over each picture with black crayon and therefore it was ruined, was the story decent for a young child. Was the art work good. When I got to the 2 books for me, well, Feast looked interesting and Microwave actually was written by a woman who was skeptical about microwaves and learned how they worked and what you could really do with them. So I got them both.
Got home picked up Feast and it was well written and enjoyable. She talked about eating as a child and then learning to cook on her own and then cooking trends in her adult life, various chefs who influenced America and her, cookbooks, etc. But the prize to me was on page 108. and I hope she forgives me for quoting. She was talking about church sponsored cookbooks for fund raisers.
"Sometimes a community, however well knit, has a resident heretic, like Mickey (Mrs. Gerald) Sandridge, whose Best Ever Rum Cake considerably enlivens Sharing Our Best, the publication of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Here's the recipe:
Best Ever Rum Cake
1 or 2 qt. rum baking powder
1 c.butter 1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. sugar lemon juice
2 large eggs brown sugar
1 c. dried fruit nuts
Before you start, sample the rum to check the quality. Good, isn't it? Now go ahead, select a large mixing bowl, measuring cups, etc. Check the rum again, it must be just right. To be sure the rum is of the highest quality, pour one level cup of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. Now with electric, beat one cup of butter in large fluffy bowl. Add one seaspoon of thugar and beat again. Meanwhile make sure rum is of highest quadidy. Add 2 argeLeggs, 2 pucs of fried druit, and beat until high. If druit gets stuck in beaters, pry it joose with a drewscriver. Sample the rum again, checking for highest conscisticity. Next, sift 3 cups pepper or salt (it really does not matter which). Sample the rum again. Sift 1/2 pint lemon juice. Add 1 Babblespood brown thugar (or whatever color you can find). Wix mell. Grease oven and turn cake pan to 350 gredees. Now, pour the mhole wess into the boven and ake. Check the rum again and go to bed.
Now wasn't that funny! I certainly laughed myself silly!
So then I started reading the Microwave Gourmet the next day and this woman can make jam in the microwave! And I keep thinking this author sounded familar, well, yes she is, she was in the Feast Here Awhile book. So I got on the internet and Barbara Kafka is quite the cookbook author.
Vegetable Love
Soup, A way of Life
Roasting, A Simple Art
Party Food
as well as the one I now own.
Then I started laughing, God did this to me earlier in the year to get me to read Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains and thereby get a better understanding about Haiti. He had led me book by book to get me to that book.
I have been missing creative cooking ideas and need more veggie ideas since potluck at church is veggie, just incase someone in church feels eating meat is sinful and unhealthy (okay it is healthier to not eat meat but that ain't the only thing honey, watch us throng to the dessert table!)
Anyway, I had a good laugh at God's love to me and I know He had a good laugh at me laughing about His sneaky way to give me fun and love.
You know that song, Will I dance for You, Jesus, etc, etc? Well, I've often wondered what I would be like with Jesus when we have our special time. One day I heard a whisper and saw a picture in my mind that I would hang onto His hand and talk and talk and talk about all the cool things He's done that makes me happy and I'd ask Him a thousand questions and we'd laugh a lot. Now isn't that just like me? Dancing around and being silly happy! Yup, that's love!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Nursing Home Food
When will nursing homes realize that food is love? They need to hire people who love to cook and have great cooking skills. They need to have a larger food budget. Not extravagant, just a little more money, time and energy into providing what people actually want to eat and need for nutrition and that sense of being loved.
Examples:
If you serve soup, many people like a few crackers in their soup, plain saltines work. Plus the thicker substance is more easily kept on the spoon. Home cooked soup lets you cook the vegetables until they are soft and when it is pureed for those who need puree they will have great flavor and nourishment.
Rolls should be allowed to be served at room temperature, keeping them warm means they dry out and become hard. Dentured and edentulous people need soft bread and rolls.
Pureed food should be taught to all preparers to be food with a tiny bit of liquid and a tiny bit of gel, instead of a tiny bit of food and lots of water and gel which results in a glob of thick, sticky glue on their plate. I would not be able to force myself to eat it unless I was literally starving to death and that was my only option to preserve my life and even then I would probably say, let me die.
I love dessert. Who doesn't? Usually the very last taste sense we have before we die is for sweet. Sheet cake is easy to make for a bunch of people and icecream on top makes it easy for anyone to eat, even pureed. Mix up the icecream in the bowl with the cake, voila, pureed!
Someday, we are going to be old and in nursing homes. Is this how we want to eat when our time comes? Lets start caring about what our relatives and friends are eating in nursing homes now so when our time comes we've bettered the world and bettered nursing home food. Let's get real chefs to lead our kitchen help and teach them how to make wonderful tasting food that will nourish not only their bodies but their souls and let them know we love them. Because food is love.
Incase you are wondering, I have just dealt with atrocious food in the nursing home and they think, I am too emotional about her diet.
They don't know the half of it!
Examples:
If you serve soup, many people like a few crackers in their soup, plain saltines work. Plus the thicker substance is more easily kept on the spoon. Home cooked soup lets you cook the vegetables until they are soft and when it is pureed for those who need puree they will have great flavor and nourishment.
Rolls should be allowed to be served at room temperature, keeping them warm means they dry out and become hard. Dentured and edentulous people need soft bread and rolls.
Pureed food should be taught to all preparers to be food with a tiny bit of liquid and a tiny bit of gel, instead of a tiny bit of food and lots of water and gel which results in a glob of thick, sticky glue on their plate. I would not be able to force myself to eat it unless I was literally starving to death and that was my only option to preserve my life and even then I would probably say, let me die.
I love dessert. Who doesn't? Usually the very last taste sense we have before we die is for sweet. Sheet cake is easy to make for a bunch of people and icecream on top makes it easy for anyone to eat, even pureed. Mix up the icecream in the bowl with the cake, voila, pureed!
Someday, we are going to be old and in nursing homes. Is this how we want to eat when our time comes? Lets start caring about what our relatives and friends are eating in nursing homes now so when our time comes we've bettered the world and bettered nursing home food. Let's get real chefs to lead our kitchen help and teach them how to make wonderful tasting food that will nourish not only their bodies but their souls and let them know we love them. Because food is love.
Incase you are wondering, I have just dealt with atrocious food in the nursing home and they think, I am too emotional about her diet.
They don't know the half of it!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
scrapbooking
I finally found a die I was needing, that was out of stock here and the main sources online and so I started searching various online stores to see if anyone had it and success! They had it, they shipped promptly and so it merited a better look. I checked out the gallery and you simply must see Gabriellep's pages in the gallery! I am pathetic compared to her. They also have a FREE online class of 24 lessons about learning to scrapbook. So I signed up and they are good lessons and they have links to YouTube so you can watch the demonstrations. I'm doing one a day and printing out the page for my reference. It's great for newbies and actually I'm learning some stuff, too. I always like to learn new stuff! The site is: Scrapbook.com.
And just in case you wondered what I wanted and bought it was the Tim Holtz die, Caged Bird. It cuts out a cage, a bird and a wing and if you die cut it out with grunge paper you can stamp it, curl it and it has great dimension. I wanted it for my next class so we could do something different, and fun.
just thought you'd like to know.
And just in case you wondered what I wanted and bought it was the Tim Holtz die, Caged Bird. It cuts out a cage, a bird and a wing and if you die cut it out with grunge paper you can stamp it, curl it and it has great dimension. I wanted it for my next class so we could do something different, and fun.
just thought you'd like to know.
Just As I Am
While listening to the song, Just AS I Am, it hit me anew how wonderful God is to let us come to Him all dirty and sinful. We don't need nice clothes, a new haircut, glistening white teeth, polished shoes and all the various things one would need to do if they were going to meet the president and have him listen to us fairly. The president would never know our true heart, he would judge us by appearance. But God doesn't need all those trappings, He can judge us fairly by knowing our heart. I am so grateful that God knows the real me and that when He sees a flaw in me, He will help me change if I desire it and allow Him to teach me a new and better way. Praise God today for His fairness and for knowing our true heart.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Spring has finally arrived, we hope
Sabbath school class, please finish Nehemiah this week.
We finally got our garden planted today, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, parsley already in. But today we planted green beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, okra, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, buttercup squash, butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash (Pat likes this far better than I), beets, radishes, parsnips, and carrots.
We didn't plant corn this year because the grass hoppers ate us out last year. Nor onions, easier to buy that, than to store. We need a root cellar but......
Pat did build us a rotating composter this year and we are cooking our first batch.
We are going to have a small batch of plums this year due to frost but we will have lots of Nanking cherries. The grapes are leafing out now. We also got a new one to replace the one that died and it is a seedless green grape. Did I tell you that Pat planted 100 asparagus plants, also. And we got 2 more rhubarb plants so someday I will have rhubarb for pies!
We're thinking maybe next year we'd do strawberries.
We let speckles out in the yard to graze while we planted and when we went in, we left him in the yard, but he doesn't like being alone. (People are fine and preferable to sheep.) So he came up to the patio door and grabbed the rubber stripping that holds the screen in and pulled it out. Pat was so mad, he had just fixed that door this spring! So now Pat's working on it again and Speckles is banned back to sheep pasture. Soon we will be moving Blackie our ram and Speckles the pet to new quarters so we can control when our sheep get pregnant this year. We're just waiting for the electric and telephone company to mark where the lines are for the final fence. The gas company came out right away.
Have a good week!
We finally got our garden planted today, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, parsley already in. But today we planted green beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, okra, cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, buttercup squash, butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash (Pat likes this far better than I), beets, radishes, parsnips, and carrots.
We didn't plant corn this year because the grass hoppers ate us out last year. Nor onions, easier to buy that, than to store. We need a root cellar but......
Pat did build us a rotating composter this year and we are cooking our first batch.
We are going to have a small batch of plums this year due to frost but we will have lots of Nanking cherries. The grapes are leafing out now. We also got a new one to replace the one that died and it is a seedless green grape. Did I tell you that Pat planted 100 asparagus plants, also. And we got 2 more rhubarb plants so someday I will have rhubarb for pies!
We're thinking maybe next year we'd do strawberries.
We let speckles out in the yard to graze while we planted and when we went in, we left him in the yard, but he doesn't like being alone. (People are fine and preferable to sheep.) So he came up to the patio door and grabbed the rubber stripping that holds the screen in and pulled it out. Pat was so mad, he had just fixed that door this spring! So now Pat's working on it again and Speckles is banned back to sheep pasture. Soon we will be moving Blackie our ram and Speckles the pet to new quarters so we can control when our sheep get pregnant this year. We're just waiting for the electric and telephone company to mark where the lines are for the final fence. The gas company came out right away.
Have a good week!
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