DEVOTIONS
But I wanted to share with you something I have started doing. I have made several attempts to have a regular devotional and prayer time for myself and God. And guess what? I started doing that on Monday morning and have continued all week. I do it first thing in the morning. Well, actually going to pee is the first thing I do. But after that, doing devotions is the next thing I do. At first I had to force myself to focus on it. Now that I have done it all week, today I noticed it was easier to focus on what I was reading and try to take the time to reflect on what I read. I hope it will get easier as time goes by. I know it will evolve as well. Reading some of what you blogger friends do as a prayer/devotional time inspired me to get with it again. Thank you blogger friends.
Another reason I wanted to start doing devotional time again is a new bible study we started at church. It is called, "Opening the Book of Faith". It is a book of Lutheran Insights for Bible Study. The first class was last night. It is a five year plan to help us open up the Bible and deepen and broaden our experience in Bible study. The first portion is 7 sessions long. I am excited about this and plan to participate as fully as I can.
COOKING ACTIVITY
The cooking activity for Stuffed Soup went well. And tasted good too. It was made with Chicken and Corn Chowder Soup, Chicken flavor stuffing mix and shredded cheddar cheese. I was going to buy preshredded cheese and I realized just in time to get the block cheese and take one of my cheese graters with me. I am glad I did. That gave me an extra task to have some one do. One of the patients has dementia and needed instruction for every step I wanted her to do. Another one kept saying "I can only see out of one eye." She needed reminding that she can still do these tasks. It worked out great. We had people, grating cheese, measuring out the stuffing mix, cutting fruit, squeezing oranges(which had to be cut first), stirring the stuffed soup mix, scooping it into my special cooking unit, scooping it back out when it was done and finally tasting everything. Successful but tiring. Don't know yet what we will do next Friday. Depends on who we have and what we can do with them. We may do a baking activity next time.
DRIVING VIEWS
There is a favorite view I drive by on my way home. I always tell myself I need to stop and get a picture of that view. Well, today I finally did that. The colors on the grapevines are starting to change. The color will increase as the season goes on. Also the lighting changes as the sun sets earlier. Then if it is a cloudy rainy day it is a different look altogether. I should try to get pictures as this scene changes. I just love this view. I have to look for it as I drive home otherwise I miss it if I blink as I drive by. This is looking south west which means the sun is coming from the left in the picture.
1 comment:
Nommy! I'm glad that you are doing devotions again. That is something that I realize is missing in my life. I should really make a point of getting back into them. Maybe now I will. Another thing I keep thinking about getting back into is exercising. But with the stress of needing to move soon it may have to wait. I'm amazed at how many people I've met since I moved here as well. It's weird to think that I've been in the Quad Cities for 3 years now. Crazy! I miss you bunches and love you even more!
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