I don't know about you, but I hate throwing food away. Not scrapping the plate into the trash when I can't possibly take another bite, I mean taking out a bottle of salad dressing, or leftovers, or box of baking soda and not having any idea if it's still good. More often than not I throw it away, because here's a fun fact about me-I have essentially no sense of smell. While you may simply sniff the dressing, I just stare at it. Here is a new question I've been pondering lately-if tomatoes are in an unrefrigerated bin at the store, why do I put them in the fridge when I get home? My mom puts every vegetable but potatoes in the fridge, as well as the peanut butter, but that's a different blog post. As the fourth child, my mom didn't explain a lot of kitchen mysteries to me, when I was underfoot in the kitchen she just told me to go read a book instead. That explains a lot of things. So here I am, a late blooming kitchenista, wanting to unlock the hidde...
I have spent the last three days in the company of somewhere around 900 women. I know probably less than 20 of them. It is interesting to me how women can become friends in less time than it takes to make a soy chai latte. Because of that truth I now know 21 of them. That's pretty good for me, because I'm a real introvert, and there is very little about being in a group of any size that makes me comfortable. Even writing about this makes me vaguely uncomfortable. This is a pastors wives retreat, so we have some unique ties that bind, joys and challenges that most women will never experience. Some years ago, maybe even the first year I attended this retreat I went to a workshop that was about being a Spirit filled pastors wife. The speaker made a statement that always stuck with me. "Let the Holy Spirit pick your friends, He knows the ones you need." Among these 900 women are my Holy Spirit friends. They are women with whom I h...
Today I helped someone set up their first blog. We went through every field, looked at all the gadgets, and along the way, I gave her the basic instructions for each function. When I could remember, that is. On the gadget for links, and she asked me to make a link to this blog. When I did, the link has shows not only the title of the blog but the title of the last post, and the date of that post. No wonder I couldn't remember how to use anything! Six months has gone by since I last visited my own blog. I didn't want anyone visiting her blog to see how inactive my blog was, so I decided I better write something. Not that I care what anyone thinks. Well, maybe a little. ;) The morning sort of refreshed my creative juices for the whole blogging thing. If I was to come up with some spiritual application for this post, it would be this: it's a good thing to go back to the basics, look at the framework of what you know and believe, evaluate...
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