This is my basic meatball recipe. I cook up a couple of batches at a time and freeze them. Then I just pull out however many I want to use. I use them with spaghetti sauce and pasta, in meatball subs, or just to eat them plain. This is one of the ways I keep …
I have gradually realized that the simplicity we are finding here is less linked to our setting than to our direction – our spiritual commitment to live more simply, our determination to make simplifying choices, and our willingness to clarify and stand by certain goals and priorities. Claire Cloningee, A Place Called Simplicty The longer …
The deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. –Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity God’s timing …
Yesterday my husband and I picked out Mother’s Day cards for our moms. We are both blessed to have our parents still married to each other and have good relationships with our moms. Celebrating our moms and being thankful for them is the easy part of Mother’s Day. The hard part of Mother’s Day is …
In June 2003 I started a daily discipline that has been a very powerful experience in my life. Each night before I go to bed I write in my Journal of Thanksgiving. I jot down a brief list of five things I am thankful for from that day. They can be about anything – spiritual, …
The feeling that “if nothing is happening, nothing is happening” is the prejudice of a superficial, dependent and hollow spirit, one that has succumbed to the age and can prove its own excellence only by the quality of pseudo-events it is constantly organizing, like a bee, to that end. –Vaclav Habel Probably the greatest malaise …
I’m offering my first stint as Sallie’s guest columnist! I’m David, the guy mentioned in Sallie’s profile. Today is Sallie’s birthday, as she alluded to in her posting from yesterday. And for her birthday, I pay tribute to her in the: Ten Things You Need To Know About Sallie 1. Sallie believes that potatoes are …
When I was in my early to mid 20’s, I had the blessing of becoming involved socially with several younger couples from church. This may not sound like a big deal, but for a single woman who wanted to be married, it was a real blessing to have the fellowship of Christian couples and not …
This is my favorite baked potato soup recipe. It is the ultimate comfort food when topped with shredded sharp cheddar and bacon. The original recipe called for canned chicken broth, but I use a combination of water and Chicken Better Than Bullion which is so much tastier and rich. You can adjust the amount of …
I wrote previously about how after we have walked with Christ for awhile, we begin to see patterns in the way He deals with us as individuals. At that time, I wrote of how God speaks to me through His creation. Until yesterday, I had forgotten one of the other ways. I was looking for …
My study of living simply and the simplicity movement started after we had only been married a year. I was teaching full-time and wanted to be home, even before we had children. Out of my study evolved many additional interests regarding simplicity such as: margin overload consumerism LBYM (aka Living Beneath Your Means) clutter calling …
Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Muffins is a favorite recipe I found on a wonderful site called Stephanie’s Country Kitchen Goodness. The website very sadly no longer exists, but it lives on in our home through many of her delicious recipes. I really like the combination of chocolate and sour cream in recipes. These muffins are …
