Wednesday evening and it is getting late but I have lots to tell! If any of you missed me last night I'm sorry - I just could not get my brain to work right and say what I wanted so I just decided to wait! I received two different emails that had a lot of things to say that I want to share - not all tonight or I would still be here in the morning typing! One was entitled "Our Orderly God" and I found the facts amazing - not that I don't know He is able to do all - but that He put so much detail into everything He made in order for us to know He is real! God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example:
- the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days
- those of the canary in 14 days
- those of the barnyard hen in 21 days
- the eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days
- those of the mallard in 35 days
- the eggs of the parrot and ostrich hatch in 42 days.
(Notice, they are all divissable by seven, the number of days in a week!)
- The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.
God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned tht this animal would have a huge body, to large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.
The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!
God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains.
- Each watermelon has an even number of strips on the rind.
- Each orange has an even number of segments.
- Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
- Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
- Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row and even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.
- The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.
All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundredfold - all even numbers.
God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specific times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!
Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and the plans, and will be fragrant with His presence.
Only the God-planned safe life is successful. Only the life given over to the care of the Lord is fulfilled.
If I ever start repeating recipes - please let me know because I may give you some of my favorites more than once. The recipe I am giving you tonight was given to me in 1970 (before some of you that are reading this were even born!) and I made it for a cooking contest the Marshall paper had and in the vegetable section - it actually won 1st place! I was thrilled because I had not had a first place anything since I won 1st in a school contest saying a poem! So here is my award winning CORN RICE CASSEROLE
1 Stick butter melted
1/2 onion and 1/2 bell pepper - chopped
Saute onion and bell pepper in butter. Add 2 cans cream style Corn. Beat 1 egg. Add egg and 1 tsp. salt and 1 tablespoon sugar. Cook small box (I don't think you can buy "small" boxes anymore - so about 1-1/2 to 2 cups) minute rice. Add to corn mixture. Add 1 small jar pimentos. Butter casserole dish and add Corn/Rice mixture. Top with grated cheddar cheese. Bake 25 minutes in 275 degree oven. WIN PRAISES FROM YOUR FAMILY!!!
Do you know what "sliders" are? The week before the first Wednesday night I cooked at church I announced we were having "sliders" and so many people asked "what are sliders!" Well you probably know by now - but they are very small hamburgers. The patties we made were about 8 to a pound of meat and we put them on little dinner rolls. They can be made up out of just the meat or the meat can be seasoned -- I seasoned ours with pepper, garlic, and a little Penzey's Foxpoint. Some call for cajun seasoning and Worcestershire sauce and some call for seasoned salt, ground sage and pepper - what ever flavor you like. Then you can add slices of cheese or lettuce and tomato! They are just good! I do like to make a variety of mayonnaise to use on them!
Roasted Red Pepper Mayo
1 roasted red pepper (from a jar of roasted red peppers)
1 Cup Mayonnaise
1 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. dried oregano, salt and black pepper to taste - and if you don't taste - use 1/2 tsp. salt and 1/4 tsp. pepper
Stir together and let sit about 30 minutes to an hour before serving so seasonings can marry!
Chipotle Lime Mayo
2 Chipotle peppers in adobe sauce
1 Cup mayonnaise
2 tsp. finely minced lime peel
1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste.
Stir together and let sit about 30 minutes to an hour before serving so seasonings can marry!
OR be creative and mix your own! Experiment!!!
Now before I sign off: Let me give you an extra word of wisdom from the Handbook of 2010:
Health
1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a begger.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 20 to 30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.
That's it for the night. I will have to correct my typos tomorrow - but God's will - have a blessed night - and enjoy the beauty that surrounds us tomorrow - AND DO A GOOD DEED!
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