I use lots of different herbs and spices to season food, but plain old fresh ground black pepper (or a mixture of coloured peppercorns) is a winner every time.
Also one of our favourite comfort food dishes is sausage stew - made with square sliced scotch sausage and the gravy is made extra tasty by adding about a third of a bottle of plain old cheap brown sauce - and a big old dollop of worchester sauce! Not very exotic I know but a real taste of childhood.
I have been putting off living MY life for far too long…………..
I took a look at all the Christian books I have read (and those sitting waiting to be read) and realised that I was so wrapped up in looking at the relationships others were having with Christ that I was forgetting to have mine.
Mine is like no other - He created me to have that relationship with him and no-one else can do it! If I don’t have that relationship with Him he will miss out on it and so will I.
When I first became a Christian everything was so simple - First I believed and it gave me joy - then I started to talk to God and he started to talk to me - simple.
Then I started to listen to other people. Some of what I listened to was good, very good. Most of what I listened to was not good at all.
Apparently I was naïve because God does not speak to people these days (must have been hearing things) and His word could not be taken literally (funny I thought He was the TRUTH, the Way and the Life). I was also childish because I did not always sing and worship like everyone else.
I was left feeling like I constantly running to keep up. After all I did not get saved until 2 days before my 38th birthday and I had not been brought up in “the church”.
I lost much of my joy and was left striving and feeling like a second class Christian. I wanted to be holy like those around me - big mistake!!!!!!!!!!!
I needed to take my focus off other believers and get it back on Jesus! I still want to be Holy but Holy like my Father is Holy! So today this very minute I am going back to the simple life. No more striving just resting in Jesus.
I wont even have to strive to be holy any more because as I talk to Him and listen for His voice, spending in His presence His holiness will rub off on me.
Grab your chance with both hands - Live YOUR own life - it’s the one He created for you and the one he created you to live.
Young people who want to get to know one another better can do any of the things that friends usually do because they need to remember that they have to build their friendship if they want their relationship to last.
How about joining the same fellowship group at church, a prayer meeting or a bible study group.
Or take up a hobby or a sport together (not wrestling though lol), join a book club, or even take a class together.
Do some volunteer work together then not only will they get to know each other better they will develop a servant heart (very important in any relationship) and if the relationship does not work out for them then it will still have been time well spent for both of them.
Go walking with a rambling group or jogging together.
What about a visit to a good book shop - especially one with a coffee shop attached.
Go to a children’s playground play and talk about the dreams you had as children, all the things you wanted to do and see and the places you wanted to go. it’s a great way to find common ground and differences.
Most of all relax and remember that anything worth building is worth laying good foundations for.
Warning! Warning! Don’t do what I did!!
When I first became a Christian I was very misguided and spent every evening involved in church activities, while leaving my poor children and unsaved Hubby at home.
Thankfully this did not last for ever, but it does serve as a great example of how not to have a close knit family!
The reason I changed what I was doing was not because my family complained, but because I found out what God’s picture of a woman, a wife and a mother really looks like.
Fathers may be the head of the household and, therefore, the leaders of the family, but as mothers we should be the one who guide the family along behind him. If we are not close behind him how can we expect them to be.
So this is where we need to start. Invest time and effort into your relationship with your husband. This is the second biggest gift you can give to your children (the first is of course to invest in your relationship with the Lord). This is how the wise woman builds up her home (instead of tearing it down with her own hands).
Take advice from older (more mature in the Lord) women about how to love your husband and children and take care of your home (this is not my idea - it’s God’s).
Pray, pray and pray some more…..
Study your family and become an expert on there needs and the things they enjoy. Then act on your knowledge.
Never compare your family to anyone else’s. This is the family the Lord blessed you with thank Him for them regularly and enjoy them because this is your perfect appointed place.
There was a mighty King the mightiest of them all. Sadly, through no fault of His own, the King was separated from His many children.
There was just no way for the lost children to find their way back to the King. There was only one thing to be done - The King sent His champion, the Crown Prince (heir to the throne) to rescue His brothers and Sisters and bring them home!
Sadly, many rejected the champion’s help to return to their Father and remained forever lost and some who returned to their Father had been so long without Him that they struggled to remember who they really were.
They had been touched by a world where they did not belong and although they were restored to their rightful place it took time and a teachable spirit for them to learn who they were meant to be.
Not everything which starts "Once upon a time" is a fairy tale............. this is the truth, in fact this is the Truth, the Way and the Life - this is Jesus!
One day my Prince will come, I'm ready - are you?
This is a link to a wonderful description of biblical submission.
http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2009/05/husband-headship-a-biblical-paradox.\ html
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