My goodness I think that was the first Monday night I've missed since I started the blog -- but by the time I got home from buying the store out for groceries and walking the dogs - that is a trip around the block - ever been pulled by about 65 lbs at about 65 miles per hour? That is what it feels like!
Say - don't ever take Mark Edge up on cooking your lunch - you should have seen the "beige" colored potato soup he ate today. He doesn't know you are suppose to read the directions before planning to serve it! I noticed he kept adding crackers to it - many crackers - wonder if it was to disguise the taste???? Some day soon I am going to surprise him with REAL POTATO SOUP!! I think I put a Potato Soup recipe on my blog!!! Yes I did on 2-22-2010 and it was delicious. Check it out!!!
Have you read the email about CLAY BALLS? It is so good I want to give you a short version of it. "A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of clay balls. They didn't look like much but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time into the ocean as far as he could throw! Eventually one of the clay balls dropped and cracked open on a rock.. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone! Excited he opened the remaining clay balls and each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the remaining 20 or so clay balls. Then it struck him - he had thrown away maybe 50 or 60 clay balls with their hidden treasures into the ocean. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!"
It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautful or sparkling, so we discount it. We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person. There is a treasure in each and everyone of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth. May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them.
There was a woman I once worked with and when she started to work - everyone talked about how ugly she was - just hard to look at. But as the days turned to weeks and weeks to months - our perception of her changed. She was so beautiful on the inside, we no longer saw anything but God shining through her. She worked hard, she was a wonderful mother, neighbor and peer - and a joy to know! Her physical looks never changed but what we saw was a beautful person!
Last night I made a plain white cake from a mix and put a good homemade cream cheese icing with strawberries mixed (beaten) in. It was just a Duncan Hines cake mix that I almost followed directions in cooking. I added 1 tsp. Mexican vanilla and instead of 3 egg whites - I used the whole eggs. I tasted the crumbs off the knife that I cut piece(S) for Travis with and it is delicious. Gave my sister some tonight! Then tonight I made a salad - seasoned my wooden bowl heavily with olive oil, 1 clove of minced garlic, salt, lots of black pepper, a little Cayenne pepper, a little bought black pepper and garlic seasoning and some Pensey's Salsa seasoning. I rubbed it into the bowl really well! (Do you have a wooden bowl for salads? If not you must get one -- Ross often has them at a fraction of the cost at other placed such as Bed, Bath & Beyond.) I added Romaine lettuce, mixed with carrot and a little cabbage, avadcado ( sprinkled with lemon juice to keep from turning brown), cherry tomatoes, halved, about 1/8th onion, chopped, and a small amount of cilantro. There was enough "stuff" in the bowl that I just tossed well and did not need a dressing. D E L I C I O U S! There you go -- SALAD - A- LA- MEXICAN! I added to this meal chicken fried steak cutlets - cooked in olive oil without the big fat batter or deep grease. I had seasoned them well with lots of pepper and other seasonings. I also baked potatoes -- have you ever baked white potatoes? They and the Yucon Gold potatoes are not supposed to not turn to sugar or have as many carbs and they were great tonight. Do you know how to bake a potato in the microwave and them taste like they have been in an oven a couple of hours. Wash the potatoes well and leave them very wet. Take a sharp knife and cut a deep X in both ends of the potatoes and wrap each in a sheet of paper towel. Cook in microwave 10 minutes - test for softness when squeezed. Cook another 5 to 10 minutes depending on size of potatoes. Then take sheets of aluminum foil, spray with Pam, and sprinkle with either Sea Salt or Kosher salt (if you don't have any - go buy some but for now just use table salt!) Then wrap up each potato and place in a dish and put in 350 degree oven until balance of meal is finished and ready to serve.
We have company tonight. My precious little niece is spending the night with us because her dad is having a procedure to remove the rod that has been in his leg about 3 months after having fallen and breaking his leg. SHE told her "MEME" she was glad she was coming because Uncle (Travis) could get her up at 5 so they could visit and have some quality time together! That girl is one mess! We love her so much!!
May God bless each of you with a restful night to awake with a new resolve to be a better person - ready to help someone and be all that you can be. God's Will I will be back tomorrow night.
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