The other post in this category is for almond flour chicken strips baked in the oven. The dipping sauce for these strips is simply honey mixed with mustard. In my home, this salad goes with that chicken strip recipe. I like the honey mustard dipping sauce because it can also be used as a salad …
Continue reading My Family’s Favorite Salad (Well…one of them)
Last year I wrote this short devotional for Thrive Connection. I hope it's encouraging. I will share more in the future. Here is the link: https://thriveministry.org/connection/devotional/coming-home-to-purpose
A story from my home country-- On a sweltering summer day in my childhood I was playing outside with my best friend. We were excited about our matching sundresses. A woman walked by and pinched our legs, saying to my friend, "skinny little legs!" and saying to me, "fat little legs!" She was trying to …
Continue reading When Body Image and Culture Stress Collide
https://thriveministry.org/connection/devotional/a-curvy-girl-in-the-real-world Here is a link for Thrive Ministry's Daily Devotionals through the online magazine, Connection. Thrive is a great resource for ladies serving globally. I wrote this particular devotion as a submission to see if I could join Thrive's writing team. I will continue to share links to their site as future devotionals I've written …
Continue reading A Resource for Global Women
The blind and lame. Outcasts. Women with colorful histories and men who cheated others out of hard earned money. People with bitter hearts and those who had lost faith in God because of corrupt systems. These represent some of the people Jesus helped, with problems ranging from physical ailments to seemingly unconquerable personal prejudices and …
Continue reading May Your Kingdom Come, Beginning in Me
A little over one year ago I contracted Lyme Disease and it changed my life. I felt exhausted most of the day, could not stop sweating, had intense joint pain, and experienced overwhelming feelings of depression. I researched the subject of Lyme thoroughly and found that since my case was diagnosed quickly, I had a …
Continue reading Easy, Healthy Recipes (starting w/ chicken strips)
Most churches my dad pastored had wooden pews. Adults saw them simply as seats; especially spots where certain cushions meant, “Mine. Don’t sit here.” During my childhood I saw pews as many things. Just after they had been dusted with furniture polish they made amazing slides. When the “Mine. Don’t sit here” people were not …
The two other people in my little family are different than me, but before Covid19 I had fewer hours with them during the day to be reminded of this. We normally see each other after full days of work and school— sharing news, homework, household chores, and recreational time. But Covid19 has changed the …
Continue reading Hospitality at Home
I usually have a schedule for blog entries that involves serious editing, planning, etc. But for a little while now we have been practicing social distancing because of the Covid19 pandemic. Daily life looks different, so my posts will be different as well. Most everyone in our city is practicing social distancing. While it's not …
Continue reading Social Distancing in My Garden
