LOVE as Our Guidepost

Thursday, March 11, 2010

MamaMonkey Meals on Wheels

SO I hava new business since I'm pretty much staying at home again with monkey #3 here.

The clinic I have been working for is paying me to bring them 2 meals a week and I've been having so much fun! I have to admit, Mom helped me last week and we thought, wow....we could do this as a business! It is great fun!!!

Here's the menu from the last 2 weeks.....

1-Beef&Noodles, Mixed Veggies, Salad, Monster Cookie Bars-
2-Chili, Cold Veggie Tray, Pumpkin Bread, Peanut Butter Bars-
3-Spaghetti, Garlic Bread, Corn, salad, Raspberry and Black Cherry Cakes-
4-Chicken& Beef Enchiladas, Green Beans, Salad, Cherry Cheesecake-

Anyone have any great recipes they want to share, let me know!!!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Best of Both Worlds

"In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it doesn't."
~ C.S. Lewis

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Blessed...

Blessed are the cracked....for they let the light shine in!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Healing Rain

Healing rain is coming down
It's coming nearer to this old town
Rich and poor, weak and strong
It's bringing mercy, it won't be long

Healing rain is coming down
It's coming closer to the lost and found
Tears of joy, and tears of shame
Are washed forever in Jesus' name

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain

Lift your heads, let us return
To the mercy seat where time began
And in your eyes, I see the pain
Come soak this dry heart with healing rain

And only You, the Son of man
Can take a leper and let him stand
So lift your hands, they can be held
By someone greater, the great I Am

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain

To be washed in Heaven's rain...

Healing rain is falling down
Healing rain is falling down
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid...

~Michael W. Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D2g7t5Bjs

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Prayer

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"I was reading through Matthew 6 the other day and I was reminded of something so simple, yet life transforming about prayer that I had to commit it to paper.

Check it. Matthew 6: 5-6. (You can find it about 60% of the way into the Bible). This section of the Bible comes during Jesus’ longest recorded sermon.

Shortly after Jesus talks about charitable giving (and doing so anonymously), he moves right onto the topic of prayer.

He says:

When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I assure you, that this is all the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father secretly. Then your Father, who knows all secrets will reward you. (Life Application Study Bible)

He starts with a warning (don’t be a poser with your prayer) and then gets straight to his first main point on ‘How to pray’.

Surprisingly, His first teaching is regarding the LOCATION of the prayer. Not the choice of words (he even goes so far to state that God knows all of our secrets/needs anyway) or the hour of the day, or whether I sit stand or kneel, or how I clasp my fingers.

LOCATION!

How about that?!

If you feel like God is distant right now, perhaps the first thing that you need to do is to go to your room, close the door, and pray. It’s what the greatest pray-er the world has known told us to do.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. It’s incredible that closing a door is such a massive key to our relationship with God, but hey, if that’s what it takes… I’m all in."
~Matt Smallbone... http://www.michaelwsmith.com/