Archive for August, 2008

Menu Plan Monday – Sep 1-7, 2008

3 years ago

by Lundie in Reflection

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I’m an Organizing Junkie’s “Menu Plan Monday” Guidelines

As you can see, I usually make meals that serve about 6, and then we have leftovers the next night. It seems to do better for us than trying to make a new meal for 3 each day. With one night of takeout and weekend plans out, I end up with two meals to cook a week, plus buying breakfast and lunch staples.

Next week, maybe, I’ll start listing the basic staples for breakfast and lunches. I really want to get a rhythm for this dinner planning first.

Weekday Dinners & Weekend (and Holiday YAY!) Breakfasts

Monday – [HOLIDAY] – Egg Muffin Breakfast Sandwiches

Tuesday – Meatloaf with Fried Onions and Ranch Seasoning, Scalloped Potatoes (that I’ve been planning to use for the last MONTH! LOL), Salad

Wednesday – Meatloaf leftovers

Thursday – Barbecue Pork on Buns, Corn on the cob

Friday – Pork Loin Leftovers

Saturday – Breakfast out

Sunday – Breakfast with the P’s

Reflection

Friends and Neighbors

3 years ago

by Lundie in Blessings, NaBloPoMo, Reflection

My heart is pretty full right now. J4 has been working his butt off to keep our home in good condition. Spent the hot hours of the day treating our driveway. I love that man.

We have lived in this home for over 11 years. Neighbors have come and gone. Ashamedly, after really good friend neighbors on either side of us moved away, and then we had J5, we retreated into our home and have not reached out to know our new neighbors.

Today, we were blessed with several moments of kindness. One neighbor helped out when our tar-spreader-squeegie-thingie broke by loaning us his. Then, he brought over peaches from their tree in the back yard. Seriously yummy. A little while later, another neighbor stopped by with a bag of fresh tomatoes from his garden. I’m eating a fresh tomato sandwich as I write. Doesn’t get much better than this!

In turn, I plan to make a double batch of my Corn, Avocado & Tomato Salsa (Ok, it’s not MY recipe, but I make it a lot…) and return the neighborly gesture. Maybe even go a step further and give to a neighbor who didn’t do something nice for us today? I really want to develop a much stronger pay-it-forward mentality!

Community Reflection

Book Announcement – Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson

3 years ago

by Lundie

Hey there – here’s one of the great new books I hope to read in the next month or so. Until I complete the 60-60 Experiment and Soul Revolution, I will probably be out of commission for book reviews. But the look out! I’ll crank back into book reading mode like crazy!

Wild Goose Chase, by Mark Batterson

Book Summary:

Most of us have no idea where we’re going most of the time. Perfect. “Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it’s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something…. Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.” –from the introduction

Author Bio:

Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of Washington, DC’s National Community Church, widely recognized as one of America’s most innovative churches. NCC meets in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the city, as well as in a church-owned coffee house near Union Station. More than seventy percent of NCC’ers are single twentysomethings who live or work on Capitol Hill. Mark is the author of the best-selling In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and a widely read blogger (www.markbatterson.com). He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Lora, and their three children.

Book Announcements Non-Fiction

Day 10 – 60-60 Experiment

3 years ago

by Lundie

It’s been a rough couple of days. I have been wrestling, fighting, struggling. With God, with myself, with doubt and frustration, with anger, with fear. Lots of white noise in my head.

I sat down for my coffee and Bible time today and was brought to this:

But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight – not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago. We are made right in Go’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.
– Romans 3:21-22

I do not know why it is that I must always return to my default way of thinking…that I need to earn my place in God’s favor. That in order to be loved and approved I must obey.

Everything in my being screams, but we MUST OBEY. I just have many years of being warned against the “slippery slope” thinking that I run to the opposite, which is legalism. Hateful, miserable, no hope legalism.

I want grace. I want to have it. I want to “get it”. I want to really understand it. I want to be a channel of it. I want to fully accept it. God help me…