good morning lovely friends. I hope and pray that we all had a great night of rest and that we all have a wonderful day today. we're supposed to have more rain and I figure we'll get it. some places are still dealing with flooding that we had last week. so more rain would not be great for them. we actually had sunshine yesterday and the day was a beauty!! I look forward to more days like that. I took my plant starts out of the garage and gave them a little sunshine and I think they enjoyed it. we got our walk in this morning and I'm always happy to get that behind us. hahaha my back was hurting so bad this morning I didn't think I would make it but, finally got my exercises for my back done and that helped tremendously. sometimes I can't do my back exercise because they mess my knee up. but fortunately, I done them this morning and my back has been felling better most of the day now. yay!!! I hope we get to go see my Momma today. maybe it won't be raining to bad and we'll get to go. I don't know what else we'll get into, but if it's fun, I'll share.
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giggle for the day:
Q - Why couldn't the sesame seed leave the kitchen?
A - Because it was on a roll.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
bada bing bada boom
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ok, let's do another "2 minutes in the kitchen with me". this is what I done yesterday. when my aldi has sweet potatoes, I get a bag or two. and I usually turn them all into my now famous "dehydrated minced onion and dehydrated minced garlic sweet potatoes". these are the absolute best sweet potatoes ever, if you like garlic and onion. obviously I do. I get them peeled and do a pretty good sized dice on them. I want them to be large enough that they don't fall thru the hole in the plate in my air fryer.
you can see that they are a pretty good size. this is with the avocado oil and the minced onion and garlic on them. I got them mixed up really good and put them on my baking tray and popped them in the oven for 55 minutes at 425 degrees. sounds like a lot of time and a high heat, but it's perfect for the sweet potatoes.
the picture below is them baked, out of the oven, then I popped them in the freezer to flash freeze. so this picture is actually when I took the from the freezer. I separated them out into 6 flip top sandwich bags with between 95 and 100 grams per bag. once I got them divvied up, I put those 6 bags in a zip top freezer bag.
I wish I would have gotten a pic of them all bagged up, but they was starting to thaw, so I popped them back in the freezer as quickly as possible. that will be 6 meals for me. and after supper last night, I got my husbands yellow potatoes baked in the freezer too. we both have 6 bags and that makes 6 meals for both of us. I love having it ready. then I toss them in the air fryer for 15 minutes on 400 degrees and it gets a crunchy outside and soft inside and it's wonderful. I hope you'll try these sometime.
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picking up with the final chapter of Ezekiel 48, just as God had a plan for the Israelites, He has a plan for our lives too. we just have to trust Him and turn to Him daily for His help and direction in our lives. we can't stress how important godly leadership is. can we even begin to imagine what our world would be like if we had godly leadership in our churches and every nation across the globe? we need to pray for our leaders, not only our immediate leaders, but leaders all across the planet. God is in control and His will be done in every nation on the planet. "The Lord is There" is where we as Christians want to be. that Holy City is our city too. Praise Him!!! it the presence of God in our lives, daily, something we strive for? if not, shame on us. develop a personal relationship with Him by prayer, worship and bible study. as I've been saying, seek after the heart of God in all things that we do.
Daniel Chapter 1, we start studying about Daniel and his friends today. do you stand firm in your faith? are you a fence straddler, not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings? do you cave in and conform to worldly pressure when confronted? a lot of people want to say that there are no absolute truths. the word of God stands on absolute truth. you believe it or you don't. even if you don't believe it, it doesn't make it un-true. are you seeking God's wisdom and guidance to make decisions that honor Him? do you believe that God will meet your needs when you decide to follow Him faithfully? does you integrity and commitment to God influence those around you? these are some questions to contemplate as we study about Daniel and his friends and their commitment to God to serve Him, no matter what.
Daniel Chapter 2, in todays times and any uncertain times in our lives, we need to remember that God is in control of all history and our personal lives. we just have to trust His timing and the reasoning behind it. everything God does is with purpose. Daniel made prayer a priority, we need to make prayer a priority too. God hears the prayers of His people. we need to ask God for wisdom and understanding in our every day lives. we need to stand firm in our faith, regardless of the circumstances that we find ourselves in. Paul said that if he lived, he lived for Christ, if he died, he'd be with Christ. that's my paraphrase. but that should be our attitude. we need to ask God to help us stay faithful to Him even in the most dire circumstances. we can't do it without the Holy Spirit in us guiding us.
Daniel Chapter 3, do you bow down before other gods or idols? Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego did not bow before the golden idol. would we? they had unyielding faith and trust in God!!!! do we? God's protection is present even in the most dire situations. if our beliefs line up with the word of God, we are to stand firm in those beliefs. God will be with us and He will make a way, He'll be with us in the furnace. He'll either deliver us or walk with us thru the trials. our faithfulness can be a powerful testimony for those around us to see that we trust God in all situations, even the uncomfortable ones. God will be with us in the midst of our problems.
Daniel Chapter 4, we see that the writing is on the wall, our days are numbered and how we live our days will determine our eternity destination. we use what God has given us to honor Him, not ourselves. pride comes before a fall. God's judgement is always righteous and just. we have to guard against pride in our lives. God is the provider of all we have, not us. God is over all creation including us.
Next time we'll pick up with Daniel Chapter 5.
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I guess that will just about do it for today. I hope we all remember to seek after the heart of God. we can see how important that is in our lives. we need to study Gods word, pray and worship Him with reverence and awe. God is holy and we need to treat Him as such. blessings of wisdom and understanding be ours in all we do.
hugs and love, patty
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