good morning from a cold, frozen blogger today. hahaha the coldest I seen it this morning was 9 degrees at 5:30am. it is now 8:35am and it's 15 degrees. it's supposed to get up to about 32 degrees, but we'll see. I hope it does warm up some, we need to get a walk in sometime today, since it will be a day or 3 or more before we can get out and walk again. it's gonna warm up so it can snow in the morning. forecast is for between 4 and 7 inches of heavy wet snow. we'll see. I pray against it. but I also pray that everyone has gotten or is getting as prepared today as they possibly can. there's not a lot we can do about electricity, but we don't have to be hungry. so I hope people that only buy food for one week at a time will have enough food to keep them going till they can get out. we could be in for a long haul. like I said, I'm praying against it.
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picking up at Exodus 3, where Moses encounters God in the form of a "burning bush". early on, while studying this at a different time, I learned that where God is, that's holy ground. if we have Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are holy and should be living holy lives with God's help. we can't do it on our own. there is no way we can, but with Christ, all things are possible, even living lives that honor God.
where God is, is holy ground. I have to ask myself every once in a while, if where I stand is holy, because I have Holy Spirit within me. I pray that God will help me on a daily basis to live a holy life according to His word.
I AM WHO I AM has sent me. have you ever walked up to someone and said the I AM WHO I AM has sent me? I sure haven't. but if we let God be the guiding force in our lives, by Holy Spirit, thru the shed blood of Jesus Christ, then we could very well say that, if led by God to say it. do you speak eloquently? neither do I. and the devil will tongue tie us at ever word. but if go in the name of the Lord, He will bless our speech and he may even give us a trusted person to go with us. sometimes we stand before people who have hard hearts. I have even witnessed some of those hard hearts in people who claim to be Christians. but when God puts words in our mouth, we have nothing to fear. I have to remind myself of that often.
I am always reminded that sin is a hard taskmaster. one of the reasons is because it's what we know. there is a certain amount of comfort in what we know, instead of stepping out in unknown freedom. we weigh known sin versus unknown freedom. freedom is hard to get, it comes at a price. just as rotting fish stinks, so does the sin in our lives. the stench of rotting fish is similar to the stench that God smells when He looks upon the sin our lives. too much of anything is bad, even frogs and insects.
do we appreciate the "known" of sin more than the "unknow" of freedom? gnats and flies???? another great analogy of the sin that swarms our lives. we are bombarded on all sides with sin from this world. again, it's the known sins versus the unknown freedoms that is before us. how many times do we harden our own hearts towards the freedom that God offers to us?
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see all the ................ in the title? well, this is what they're all about. I have a couple more "2 minutes in the kitchen with me" today. I hope ya don't get tired of seeing them. the first one is a snack that we have come to love and it satisfies a sweet tooth like nobody's business. it's dates cut open and the seed removed and filled with a couple of teaspoons of peanut butter with a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips. it is absolutely delicious. and it's a lot healthier than a lot of other snacks we can be eating.
oh wow, doesn't that look delicious? well, it really is. I'll make a couple a piece for us and it's all we need. those dates are about the size of my thumb, split down the center and the pit taken out and then I open it as much as I can. then stuff them peanut butter and choc chips and then we stuff them in our faces. hahahaha
the next thing I want to share is the chili that I was telling y'all about yesterday being made with pace salsa. it's really good too. the salsa was mild, but it turned out a little spicier than I was wanting, so I put cheese in it and it did tone it down a little. it will be good on a some corn chips. it's not a real healthy meal, but it's comfort food and with the cold weather and snow that on it's way, we will enjoy it!!
wow wee, it's delicious!!!! so if you want something to bump up the flavor of your chili, pace salsa is the way to do it. I have to keep a watch out for more pace on sale now. hopefully I'll find it and can get 3 or 4 jars and have it in waiting for more chili or soups. I hope you have ways of spicing up your own foods just to give them a little change once in a while. it keeps meal time fun and interesting.
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well, I guess that's about it for the time being. I pray you seen something her that you liked, if you did, share it with a friend. tell someone you know that God is the author and finisher of freedom, salvation in the form and name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. blessings of warmth, mercy and grace be upon all of us today. hugs and love, patty
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