Welcome back into my kitchen, where we discuss Restoring Your Temple. God’s Temple in you. Then God said, ‘Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.’ (Genesis 1:29) Last Saturday when we covered how to Boost Your Healthy Tea Time, I promised to continue by reviewing healthy breakfast ideas. These are some of my regulars (and I’ll share others in the future individually). These today are my faves because you can largely prepare them in advance for grab and go breakfasts later. Don’t we all like to make mornings easier? A little planning ahead pays off big time! To…
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He First Loved Us In The Hard Seasons
It was a Sunday morning. Just like all the other Sundays during that hard season, I stood during our morning worship welcome time with my eyes cast downward, trying to hide my tear-streaked face. Poor choir! Our third-row-pew afforded the choir members an up-front-and-personal view of raw emotion so visible that I know it grew somewhat irritating and tiresome for them to endure every Sunday. Week after week turned into month upon month. When would it end? That’s the way it is with a prodigal season of shame, sadness, and indescribable grief. Well, that’s the way it was for me, at least. If you’ve experienced a season of brutal betrayal,…
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Boost Your Healthy Tea Time
In my last post (How Anything But Optimal Health Limits Us In All Seasons), I kept thinking, “With so many healthy additions to my meals these days, where do I begin?” God gave us His perfect food to keep us healthy. He designed our bodies with a restorative ability gleaned from the nourishing foods we eat. The problem is that man changed the food, insinuating that fresh fruits and vegetables are plain, boring, not tasty, and not good enough. The truth of if it is that we get very little nourishment from the popular foods of today. It takes a targeted effort to include foods that pack a nutrient punch…
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How Anything But Optimal Health Limits Us In All Seasons
Neighbors, Welcome Into My Kitchen! Excuse me while I freshen things for company. I have my face on this morning, so no more Instagram pictures like I shared last weekend, surrounded by Christmas clutter sans make-up. (Horrors! And, please follow me.) Dusting my hands off now with Christmas decor all boxed up (woohoo!). All I lack now is bribing hubs to pack away the Christmas Tree of Hope. A question for you: As you look back at the long line of hills and valleys of your life, through hard seasons and celebratory times, can you agree that you needed God’s strength most of all and also good health? As Christians,…
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How To BE Without BEing Stressed!
I’m afraid that I may have left you with the wrong impression in my last post (TO BE or NOT TO BE in 2019). Did you take it that I said you should BE something spectacular? To pile onto your already-filled-plate to BE more? To BE better? Maybe even to outBE others? What pressure! Part of BEing who God wants us to BE is BEing at rest in Him. BEing at peace. BEing content to simply BE who He calls us to BE. Yesterday This morning in my happy place (where it’s just God and me, alone without distraction), I was reading the passages and questions from a 50-day personal…
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TO BE or NOT TO BE in 2019
Happy New Year! It felt good to flip over my calendar this morning to a fresh new day, new month, and brand new year. I hope you enjoyed your holidays (holy days) with family and friends. I so enjoyed the chats with you on my Tree of Hope post. You continue to bless me with your sweet, supportive comments, prayers, and encouragements. I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, but I continually ponder and pray about what God has for me next. How about you? Surely you know that you are gifted with many talents. Even if you think you lack talent for anything much, God equipped you with specific…
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Christmas Blessings
Merry Christmas! If you came to be with me here from my blog at the former Curtain Queen Creates, you might remember Rocky Henriques. He’s a preacher and author who offered us his Kindle e-book freebies from time to time. I still enjoy his books! Rocky is very giving and offered to help me with needs like designing book covers in the past. I visited his Facebook page here recently, where he shared this wonderful image at no charge for non-profit use. Of course I took him up on the offer so I could share it with you. 😉 Image Source With the addition of L-O-V-E, this image Rocky designed…
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Tree of Hope
Are you ready for Christmas? I am this year, but that wasn’t the case last Christmas. Our daughter decorated the entire house for Christmas last December, which was wonderful! But things were hard. Different. Everything was a struggle. Large sections of lights on our thirteen-year-old artificial tree were lifeless. Working lights had to be strung. I said to forget it and not fool with it – to not have a tree at all. It was beyond me. With years of decking our halls when often no family members took part, I was ready to join the ranks of the others and do the same. Details didn’t matter anymore. December days…
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LACKING in LOVING and Leaving The Church
There’s a story of D.L. Moody directing his Sunday School class in Chicago long ago. A boy in his class walked several miles to that church for Sunday School rather than attending a church closer to his home. Someone asked him why he walked so far to the church over there when he didn’t have to. His reply is why we should treat others among us carefully and lovingly. His reply demonstrates why people leave a particular church and never go back. It might even prove why people are leaving the church, period. His reply: Because they love a feller over there. Think about that. Is your church loving of…
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What Would You Do If Faced With ISIS?
Have you ever wondered how you would react if an enemy held a gun to your face and demanded that you renounce Jesus Christ or die? Early in my faith, I questioned my ability to stand strong. My faith in the Lord had not fully developed yet. It isn’t always easy to predict what we’d do in that moment when faced with possible torture and probable death. Do or die. What would it be? It’s quite possible that you know without doubt what you would do. I now know and thank our Lord for many tough seasons of preparation! Trials are the refining seasons some of us (me!) need for…
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How Did They Know?
Did you have a blessed Thanksgiving weekend? Oh, I hope so! Both of our kids were home for a full four days of blessings…so refreshing after last year’s Thanksgiving day alone. At that time, I was walking like a drunk person and was too embarrassed to go anywhere much besides church. I sent my family to enjoy turkey and the trimmings at a tailgate we were invited to attend before their Mississippi State University football game. While alone, I went on-line and researched all about Multiple Sclerosis. I’d had the thought years earlier that my symptoms could be MS related but didn’t think they were bad enough to mean anything…
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Lysa Terkeurst – More Than My Virtual Friend
Does it grieve you to see others in pain? I am filled with love, compassion, and thankfulness all at the same time today. Let me explain. Lysa Terkeurst (whose name I always struggled to spell) is someone many of you know from her best-selling books, speaking engagements at Christian women events, and all things Proverbs 31 Ministries. I’ve grown alongside Lysa for the past fifteen years at least, as we are in the same stage with our now-grown children. While raising her kids, she taught me to give the Best Yes, my fave from her completely inspiring writings. She came out publicly recently with her personal story of life-shattering…
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Hey, Friend! About Your Thanksgiving Thankfulness…
Do you look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings with excitement? Or, do you have a little bit of dread tucked inside the deep recesses of your heart? Holidays can be extra testy if you or a family member has illness, if you have a prodigal, or when you face any number of other issues. It could be that you have just a regular ol’ normal dysfunctional family. While I pondered this year’s festivities at my house, I wondered how it will be for you. Thanksgiving isn’t always like the Hallmark cards and movies with happy endings, all tied up in a nice pretty bow. I’ve already begun streaming those…
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White Chicken Quinoa Chili
Do you have cold weather in your area of the world? Woohoo, we finally do! It’s time for our soup meters to be hitting all cylinders to warm our engines! My cousin shared a recipe with me that her niece had sent to her by phone image. (What does that mean? Is she my second cousin? Third? Once removed? Twice? Who keeps up with that stuff?) My cousin promptly sent the picture to me, and I printed the recipe from my phone. (Gotta love technology!) It had no notation of the source, and many changes were written in the margins. It’s one of the most versatile chicken chili recipes I’ve…
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Steps in Faith
A friend at church recently commented that I didn’t have my walking stick with me. I told him I’d chunked it! At the time, I’d decided to keep the stick in my car rather than in my hand because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13). Can I get an AMEN? Granted, I’m not in a wheelchair. I’m blessed to have only needed a stick for steadying my steps. I’m NOT saying you need to chunk your stick necessarily if you need one to keep you from falling. And definitely don’t chunk your wheel chair if you need it! Today, I’m sharing something God…
