Today I reflect on simple thoughts and simple pleasures. My leads are somewhat similar to others in The Simple Woman's Daybook group, yet a bit different as well.
A picture to share...
from my kitchen mantle
from my kitchen mantle
A gray-sky day. The lone robin has found a misses.
Noticing the sound of...
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Looking to the ways of my household...
We did some cleaning up outdoors this week, some spring pruning--majorly! The holly bushes in front of the house had become holly trees and had practically covered the windows. It all looks so bare now, but new growth will come. Actually, we're wondering about just pulling them out of the ground and doing something entirely new there. Spring has a way of coaxing me outdoors to get things spruced up. Once June comes with its heat and humidity, though I have no interest in being outside.
This coming week I'm looking forward to...
seeing my daughter Laura and her husband John next weekend. :-)
seeing my daughter Laura and her husband John next weekend. :-)
Thinking...
about the wedding we'll be attending this afternoon. Looking forward to seeing some homeschooling friends from the past.
Thankful for...
families along life's way who have been a testimony of God's redeeming grace.
Thankful for...
families along life's way who have been a testimony of God's redeeming grace.
From the kitchen....
Saturday is big breakfast day at our house. This French Toast is made from French bread cut diagonally. It's delicious with apples or peaches, as you prefer. If you use canned peaches they may need to be sliced a little thinner, depending on the brand. Drain them before using. If you use apples, they can be sliced, dipped in salt water, and stored in the fridge overnight for a quicker prep in the morning. The recipe is for two servings, so you'll need to increase it for a family.
French Toast with Apple Topping
1 peeled and sliced apple
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Saute apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon in butter over medium heat until apples are tender.
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon or so of cinnamon sugar
4-5 slices French bread, cut on the diagonal about 3/4-inch thick.
- In a shallow bowl wide enough to dip bread -- mix egg, milk, and vanilla.
- In a large skillet or griddle, melt butter over medium heat.
- With tongs, dip both sides of bread in mixture.
- Cook bread until golden brown on each side. Sprinkle topside with cinnamon sugar.
- Serve with sauteed apples and maple syrup, if desired.
Recipe from Cooking for 2 Fall 2008
A thought from my Quiet Time....
James 1:3-5--Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
I find it interesting that in the midst of trials and troubles James instructs us to ask God for wisdom. My own inclination is to ask for escape. It's often difficult to think biblically when the trials are pressing in. James knows that we need to seek wisdom as we go through the trial so that it can have its intended result--growth and maturity toward Christlikeness. Trials send us in that direction.
Reflecting creativity, in His image…
Redecorated the Book Nook at church for a springtime look.
I'm learning....
to think about who God is rather than what my circumstance is.
Currently reading...
to think about who God is rather than what my circumstance is.
Currently reading...
Should finish Has Christianity Failed You by Ravi Zacharias this weekend. One more seed-thought from it to share with you.
To be sure, the problem of evil is a problem. But to reject the only One who can change the natural proclivities of my heart so that I learn to live and think and work like him is to perpetuate evil, not eliminate it. For Job, and the others mentioned in this chapter [of Has Christianity...], the incoherence they struggled with was not so much the incoherence of suffering in a world where God was in control but the incoherence of trying to explain the world if there is no God. To walk away from one's faith because of unanswered questions about evil is to walk into a storm of unanswered questions about good.
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