I realize the number forty (40) is going to be significant. I am being asked by God to cook 40 dinners in 40 days. I am reading "The Purpose Driven Life" which takes you on a 40 day journey. I attended the SHAPE seminar at church this am and I committed to a ministry for 40 days. And my husband will be celebrating 40 years of life early next month. Wow! I always knew 3's and 7's were God #'s but never 40. Lord, you are always amazing! Well today was lovely. I still pinch myself that I am off in the middle of the summer and on a Saturday. I cry when I see how much I have missed of my life because of all those years of working. Now believe me, we all must work. It is expected, it is required. However I will never subject myself to something that had more time in my life, than my husband, than my home, than my family, but most of all than my God. How I missed that simple message that nothing is more important than my life with God. And God finally got my attention with that very fact not by my employer decreasing my pay and increasing my work load but by the demand of them to have me add a 6th day of work on top of my regularly scheduled 40+hour work week. I shutter when I think of the glorious summer I would have missed being away now 6 days a week. It was then that God revealed to me that He never intended for me to work that, but He tested me to see if I would obey for Him. And once I wholeheartedly accepted that I would do whatever it is I needed to do to provide for my family, He told me it was time to leave. Thank you Lord for this glorious gift, this miracle of all miracles, you are the king of renewal, restoration and revival and I am feeling them all! Thank you Linds for opening your home to your uncle and I today. Thank you for making us a delicious lunch that carried us all the way through the entire day and night. Thanks to you we only ate some easy leftover salad from last night for dinner. You are my little buddy and I love you! So through an angel, we saved food for another dinner.
No ingredients needed: 0 cost
DINNER SERVED: Leftover panzanella salad from Dinner #11.
Psalm 138....wow Thank you Lord, Thank you!
Through the understanding of God's truth, we as followers of Christ, who is God's truth in love, we become the influence that changes the world. From hate to love. From strife to peace. From indifference to compassion. I am so grateful to God for laying His will on my wife's life because this blog illustrates true purpose. God wants his children to glorify, exemplify and ultimately justify His love for us.
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ReplyDeleteWhat's panzanella salad? I'm curious!
ReplyDeletePanzanella salad is grilled bread and vegetables. What I did was:
ReplyDeletegrilled 2 red peppers and a red onion, sliced.
Added them hot off the grill sliced to cucumbers, tomatoes and vinagerette dressing. Then you take a loaf of french bread and slice it up small slices and drizzle them with olive oil then grill them on both sides and add to salad. It is to die for! I will make it for you!
Okay....that sounds yummy!
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