Recently I spent the day with one of my granddaughters. She’ll be a senior in high school next year. We spoke of many things, but one stands out in my memory. She told me of accompanying a friend to a Planned Parenthood facility. Her friend’s mother instructed her to go there to get a pregnancy test. I’ll let you hear the conversation we had. “Mandy’s * mother was out of town so Mandy asked me to go with her.” “Why…
In God’s Little Miracle Book II I wrote a story told to me by a life-time friend, Grant Besley entitled, “My Unforgettable Night.” Grant was the Captain of a United Airlines 747 jet on a fourteen-hour flight from Los Angeles headed for Sydney, Australia, on September 11, 2001. He got the word about the ongoing tragedy in the east as they flew in the dark over the Pacific Ocean. They discovered terrorists aboard their plane. He told me, “I wondered…
Sugar Cookies with a Twist Recently I tasted some sugar cookies with a taste I couldn’t identify at first. Then on closer inspection, I realized the cookies contained lime zest. Looking through recipes, I found one that is similar. Try it and tell me what you think. I think this recipe could use some more lime zest. Spring Lime Tea Cookies 2 teaspoons lime juice 1/3 cup milk ½ cup butter, softened ¾ cup white sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons…
A friend shared some gluten-free cookies with me the other day. Even if you’re not gluten-intolerant, these are delicious! These would be great cookies to let your kids stir up to combat the summer boredom. Try them and let me know what you think. Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies Stir together: 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg Drop by spoonsful onto a greased baking sheet or on parchment paper. Smash them flat with a fork. Bake at 350…
“‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams’” (Acts 2:17). Recently an older gentleman in my Bible study approached me after our weekly session. The lesson on the CD that week dealt with interceding for revival. “Chaplain, I had a dream last night. In the…
When great-grandma stored fresh vegetables, she used a root cellar or put them in small wooden nail kegs covered with dirt in the back yard. This afforded the family fresh vegetables throughout the winter. I haven’t seen too many root cellars where I live. I don’t even know if nails come in kegs anymore. In this day and age we need to adapt. Did you ever reach for an onion or garlic and find they’ve rotted? Here’s a solution a…
Have you even gone to the store to buy certain items for a recipe only to get home to find you forgot one key ingredient? For me, it takes all the fun out of cooking. I don’t like to make a list before I go, or print off a copy of the recipe. I’m certainly not going to carry a cookbook with me to the store. But now there is a solution. Download a cookbook in an e-reader version on…
I never cease to be amazed at how the Bible is woven into every part of our every-day lives, many times unnoticed. I spoke with a writer friend the other day and showed her last week’s blog about the “if” and “then” in the II Chronicles 7:14 scripture. (“If the people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their…
“The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him” (Lamentations 3:35 NASB). I marvel at what God does when we wait on Him in prayer. When we listen to His heart and then pray His desires, we see mighty things happen beyond what we could ever dream or expect. In late February and early March this year, the Lord began to urge me to pray for Him to “reveal hidden things.” When I…
With the price of meat soaring, I’m always looking for cheaper stuff. Go to the store early in the morning to find reduced meat that is about to expire in a day or two. There’s nothing wrong with it. That green in the left picture isn’t bad meat. Read on. I found some flank steak the other day. It’s usually tough and needs to be boiled. Who wants to boil meat for several hours in Kansas heat? I tried this…