You are what you eat.....spiritually

Have you ever heard the saying, “You are what you eat?” The same principle is true in our spiritual lives. Our ears and eyes are the gates to our soul. What we watch, what we listen to, and who we associate with are constantly feeding and influencing our inner man, which in turn, influences our actions and destiny.

Psalm 119:37 says, “Keep me from paying attention to worthless things.” David said in Psalm 101:3, “I will set before me no vile thing.” Today more than ever, we have opportunities to feed our minds with the wrong thing. Everywhere we turn, there is information trying to influence us. But Ephesians 4:27 says, “Do not give the enemy a foothold. “ A door of opportunity is opened when we allow negative influences in our lives. What seems as harmless entertainment, a compromising TV show, or a negative song choice eventually influences your thought life. Thoughts lead to actions and actions determine your destiny. Spend time building yourself up, not wasting your time with activities that can tear you down. You are a temple of the Most High God - called, appointed and anointed to do great things. Do your best to keep your temple pure and be selective with what you feed your spirit. As you do your part, God will take you places that you have never imagined. You will reach your full potential and become everything God has created you to be. Feed yourself God's word, meditate on it. Listen to uplifting music, and songs with a positive message. Turn off the tv instead of watching the reality shows, the anti family shows, turn away from the magazines at check out stands that are meant to destroy people instead of encourage. Do not allow the scale to determine your mood, but remind yourself of who you are in Christ, and that you have the victory through Him. I challenge you for 1 week do the above and you will see, and feel an amazing difference. What are you feeding yourself?




                                                                                         (cute picture courtesy of vegetables nutrition)

Wacky tip for wednesday

                                                   Remember these

The Silly Bandz that all kids including mine were crazy about. Kids had them climbing up their arms, I actually saw one boy with so many they reached his elbow (crazy). Well I don't know if kids are still crazy about them, but because my kids are home the craze lasted about 2 minutes in our house. So now when vacuuming I run into these bandz all over, hiding here and there. I was gong to throw them out but decided to throw them in a junk drawer instead. Well one day I was braiding my daughters hair and forgot to get elastic to tie the bottom atlas I remember hey I have this drawer next to me full of silly bandz, why not give a try. Well they are great. Wouldn't advise using it on large amounts of hair like a pony tail but to tie the end of the braid well I think I got a winner winner chicken dinner. Here is my Beanie baby modeling below our new hair silly bandz.

You are valuable

We had a ladies luncheon with a out of state speaker. She gave these cards out that honestly I loved. I wanted to share with you. On days you feel that you could use a reminder of how God, the creator of this world sees you I hope this will bring a smile to your face.

*I am Valuable because I am created in God's class of being.

*I am Vital because God's plan involves me.

*My Heritage is to have God's best, to enjoy His companionship and to use His wealth   and power for the good of myself and others.

*I am Created for life, love, power, prosperity, success, and dignity.

*The Seeds of Greatness are in me, God never created me to be a nobody, but a real somebody

*I therefore recognize my self-value that God designed me for His lifestyle and I now know that He planned life's Best for me as His child

*I shall no longer discredit or demean or destroy what God created in His own image and values so much.

*I welcome God's friendly voice. He reminds me of my divine origin of my high purpose, and of His love plan to help me achieve, enjoy and share His best in life

Keep in mind that I believe the greatest high calling is being a wife and mother, and that no one should make you feel inadequate in that role, nor that you can't change the world in that role. I know that in that role you just as much as a missionary can in a far land. So hold fast and do not allow other women tell you that your role is lacking or boring. We as older women need to teach the younger women GOOD THINGS! What are these GOOD THINGS? To love your husband, love your children, be keepers at home, etc. (Titus 2:3-5). As you seek to manage your home efficiently and nurture and train your children today, you are doing a GOOD THING! It's not a boring thing. It's not an insignificant thing. It is a GOOD THING! And Ephesians 6:8 says,"Whatever GOOD THING each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord." What a beautiful promise. We don't look for rewards, but God's law is that we reap what we sow. As you joyfully do these GOOD THINGS in your home, they will boomerang back on you. You will reap God's blessings (1 Corinthians 15:58). You will not lose. You will win. So on days you need that little reminder please come back and read above to yourself, and remind yourself that God's thinks you are precious.

Modest Mom giveaway

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Modest mom is having a give away. Love the skirts so feminine and stylish. My favorite is the sailor and the put that together with their pink marriane blouse and serious, you are stylish, classic, and modest all in one. P.s check out Lilla Rose hair clips, so elegant...http://www.lillarose.biz/simplybeautiful/

Hey kids let me take your picture.

The other day we were playing outside. As we were running around I remember my friend wants to take pictures of us next week, maybe I should see how they will do. That was a joke in itself. Here is what we ended up with when I said "Kids come sit on the stairs so mommy can take your picture." Trying to get their beautiful faces all to look at the same time and smile, oh my not easy. By the end I laughed and gave up, or more like the little guy had enough. I'm sure they will do better for my friend next week considering it's not mommy nagging them do this and that. We'll see, best of luck to my friend.

Pumpkin..pumpkin..pumpkin....tis the season

   

Spiced Pumpkin Bisque

	1	shallot (peeled and chopped)
	1	sweet potato
	1	vegetable stock carton
	1 can	pumpkin puree
	1 pint	light cream
	3/4 cup	brown sugar (packed)
	3/4 tsp	ground nutmeg
	11/2 tsp	ground cinnamon
	3/4 tsp	ground allspice
	1 tbsp	kosher salt

   1 tbsp  butter
   2 cups  water


In soup pot pour stock, water, potato peeled and chopped and shallot. Boil till soft then turn down heat and mix in the rest of the items with cream being last. Use immersion blender and blend till soup creamy. Top with dried cranberries

Pumkin scones with maple glaze

Scones Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
7 Tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
6 Tablespoons cold butter
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
3 Tablespoons half-and-half
1 large egg

Sugar Glaze Ingredients:

1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons whole milk

Spiced Maple Glaze Ingredients:

1 cup powdered sugar
3 Tablespoons powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons whole milk
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 pinch ginger
1 pinch ground cloves

2 Tablespoons of pure maple syrup
Scones Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

2. Lightly grease a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper.

3. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and spices in a large mixing bowl.

4. With a fork, pastry knife, or food processor, cut butter into the dry ingredients until mixture is crumbly and no chunks of butter remain. Set aside.

5. In a separate mixing bowl, whisk pumpkin, half and half, and egg.

6. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Form the dough into a ball.

7. Pat out dough onto a lightly floured surface and form it into a 1-inch thick rectangle (about 9 inches long and 3 inches wide).

8. Use a large knife to slice the dough into three equal portions. Cut diagonally to produce 6 triangular slices of dough.

9. Place on prepared baking sheet from step 2.

10. Bake for 14–16 minutes until scones turn light brown.

11. Place on wire rack to cool.



Sugar Glaze Directions:

1. Mix the powdered sugar and 2 Tablespoon milk together until smooth.

2. Brush glaze over the top of each cooled scone.



Spiced Glaze Directions:

1. As sugar glaze firms, combine the spiced maple icing ingredients.

2. Use whisk to drizzle over each scone and allow to dry before serving

Contentment in a new season.

    A couple of weeks ago at my last Dr. appt she told me that my days of running have come to a halt, at least for now. For months now I had been having a lot of feet problem since my Avon cancer walk. Which led to blisters, infections and months of pain. Then after a careless jump at the beach one day which bruised my heels (note never jump more then 3 feet on to rocks with flip flops, your feet are not made for such impact). All this started in May, so fast forward to present day my feet are just not as happy as they used to be and I have done some pretty serious damage internally to them. So my Dr. told me at my last appt that running is off limits because of the impact on my feet, and the worst part my beautiful collection of high heels are off limits. Can I express I love running, it's not often that I have a chance to but I love it, and my high heels well I love wearing high heels.(please remember I'm barely 5'2 in height so heels are my friend) So a few weeks have passed and I have finally seen where my heart attitude is. We are moody people; as changeable as the weather so to speak. We are so experienced in emotion that we allow them to rule us and not even notice .The attitude of our heart and mood comes across loud and clear. People will notice when there is discontentment. Whether we realize it or not we are being defined by the emotion we display most consistently.  Our moods can affect us physically. Think of David in Psalm 102:4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass;  I forget to eat my food. 
When we allow our feelings like worry, fear and doubt, to carry us along how does James describe us?
 "But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. " James 1:6
 If I always say my goal is to have the mind of Christ (Phil 2:5) and harbor discontentment with any area of my life then I am contradicting what I am for. Jesus was a great example of managing his moods. Jesus never allowed His feelings to lead Him to sin. But what a comfort that my Lord knows how I feel and cares. He cares so much that He revealed my heart to me in order to get it right with Him and His word. So even though I still believe that I will be healed in this season I am content. I will hang my running sneakers and put on walking ones, and hang up my heels for ballet flats, but in all honesty don't be surprised a few Sundays or maybe special occasion I break out the heels here and there. So in this coming week take time and ask God is there an area that you harbor discontentment? No matter how big or small He will help you overcome and truly be joyful in every area of life.

Job 36:11
If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.

1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.