Flat pancakes

Good Morning Friends!  Wise and Wonderful Wednesday!  So what kind of pancakes do you like?  Kim and I like whole wheat pancakes, but lately I have not been able to find our favorite mix anywhere!  At first I could get it at Walmart, then they stopped carrying it, but I found it at Nichol’s and Apple Market had it for a while too.  Now I can’t find it anywhere!!!  I have tried a couple of different “blends” but they were pretty blah.  In an attempt to take the bore out of our weekly pancakes I decided to google “whole wheat pancake mix” and see what happened.  After perusing the internet for a few minutes I came across a recipe that sounded interesting-Whole Wheat/Oatmeal Pancakes.  Healthy and tasty I thought, a bulk recipe that you keep in the freezer for multiple times!  I finally got around to mixing it together Monday evening, so I was really excited to try it yesterday.  It calls for buttermilk, so I put vinegar in milk in advance so it could curdle up real good!  Kim and I were both excited as he prepared to cook us a pancake….the batter looked quite interesting….I always say if everything in it is good how can it not be….Well, guess what….our special, healthy, tasty pancakes were flat…flatter than a pancake should be!  Yep, they did not rise one bit….what the heck I thought….All day I kept thinking about our flat pancakes wondering what had gone wrong…then I remembered the cobbler I had made last week.  I remembered thinking it sure didn’t rise very much…BAM, the light came on….the baking powder…..my baking powder must not be any good…..flat pancakes and flat cobbler….time to replace the baking powder for sure!  How sad all that mix with all those good, healthy ingredients wasted because of one simple ingredient….old baking powder ruined the whole batch….Flat pancakes…..Hmm…..gee…..could my life be the same as those flat pancakes….am I missing the one ingredient that makes me complete…..We can spend our time gathering earthly ingredients in hopes of having a “tasty” life,, but no “things” can do that alone…..there is one ingredient that makes our lives “tasty”  not flat….Jesus….without HIM in our lives all that we do and have is in vain…flat…..JESUS is the ONE ingredient we need!  He is our hope and our salvation!!!  Come Lord Jesus, be our guest in our hearts…in our minds….fill our spirits with love for YOU!

 

Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  Matthew 6:19-21.  Jesus said, “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.  No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.  Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.  I am the vine; you are the branches….apart from me you can do nothing.”  Ohn 15:4-5.  God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John 3:16.  Jesus said:  “I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.”  John 16;22.  Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  To Him be glory both now and forever!  2 Peter 3:18.    

Jesus Loves You!!!!!! 

 

Let's Eat!

Good Morning Friends!  Thankfully His, Thursday!  I don’t know about you all, but I know at my house there is a whole lot of time spent on what to eat!  I wake in the morning wondering what we will have for breakfast and then what shall I take in my lunch, got to make sure I have plenty of snacks. And of course, there’s always dinner, the most planning goes into dinner!  Trying to figure out what sounds good, but doesn’t take too much time and making sure I have all the needed ingredients , not to mention special occasions like Kim’s birthday tomorrow. Birthdays require extra planning to make sure you have just what the birthday boy wants….food….yep I would say lots and lots of time is spent on what to eat!  Yesterday, I was reading from Psalms 119 and came across an interesting verse, that I must say, in the light of the “what to eat” saga, really hit.  I have read this verse a hundred times in my life, but never had it hit me like it did yesterday……”Ok, Father, I get it!”  Here’s the verse….."How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”  Wow, can you see where I am going with this?  We spend so much time worrying and planning about what we are going to eat, going to all kinds of work to find recipes, shop and prepare food for our physical bodies……when bottom line, God’s words are sweeter than anything we could eat…..God’s words nourish our spiritual bodies, food we eat satisfies us for a short time….God’s words satisfy us with the hope of life everlasting with HIM!  So, guess I better get to working on some recipes that will nourish my spiritual body….necessary ingredients----more time in HIS word, prayer time every day, regular worship, attitude of gratitude, and frost it praise and thanksgiving!  Our God is an AWESOME God!!!  Father, forgive us when we worry too much about our physical bodies, guide us to nurture our spiritual bodies so that we always remain strong in faith and ready for eternal life with YOU!

 

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander of every kind.  Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.  1 Peter 2:1-3.  Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.  Psalm34:8.  Jesus said, “Therefore I tell  you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”  Matthew 6:25-27.  Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, On Him God the Father has place His seal of approval.”  Words of Jesus from John 6:27.  Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.  He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty.”  John 6:35.

Love you all!  LET”S EAT!