Wow it has been a while

Well the last few months have flown by, and as you all can tell I have not had time to blog. So I thought I would recap the last few months.

 August:

School started and our schedule exploded, I am still meeting with my girls. I started preparing to teach Clubhouse on Tuesday nights, I also am coordinating the Sunday Morning Children’s program.

 September:

We hosted our very first DIY, and had tons of fun! Released another set of training for FABS and attended the Frist Baptist Women’s Conference, (Chocolate Café…very relaxing). Clubhouse officially started. My Hubby turned a year wiser J

 October:

October marked a very busy season in our lives…We started with our Bridge Family Dinner followed by tailgating and pancakes each week (fun but exhausting) fall break at UC happened, where we were able to go and canvas UC with Christ’s love. I had a much needed Holiday, and Heather (previous summer missionary) came to visit with her boyfriend Jed. We went out to dinner and got to know each other. Then we ended the month off with our E-Week, where our students were intentional in sharing and going out on their own campus.

DIY Kind Bars

So I pretty much discovered that I love Kind Bars after we ran our first Color Run 5k. They are quite tasty but can be pricy ($1.25 per bar) and I am not a pricy gal lol. So I wanted to make my own...I did bunches of research and merged recipes and ended up with a new favorite recipe :) here is what I did

DIY Kind Bar
Ingredients:
2 cups rice crispys
2 cups rough chopped natural almonds
2 cups chopped cashews
8oz honey
2tbsp butter (i used real)
1tsp vanilla

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350
Chop and mix nuts, set aside
In a sauce pan melt butter, vanilla and honey together let simmer for 1 minute
Pour honey mix over nuts and mix until well coated
Pour nut mix into a parchment lined baking dish (parchment paper will make life much easier trust me)
Bake for 20-25 minutes
Let bars cool (cut before cold, if too hot they will fall apart but to cold they will crumble)
Wrap individually(I used snack size Ziploc)
Enjoy
**I plan on trying other nut and fruit combinations...yum

Stuck

Have you ever felt like you were stuck in life? I mean where you are blocked in all directions, failing to move forward or backwards with no hope on either side. That is kinda where I am right now. God has brought us so far and now I feel stuck. I know God has a plan and when He wants us to move forward we will but right now is apparently not that time. It is funny how we think that if our plan is Christ centered and ministry focus then it will surely succeed. But what if it is not supposed to, what if the failure was God’s plan. What if you are humbled by the rejection which pushes you towards Him? What if that was his plan all along; and now looking towards the future seems impossible. Are you truly stuck or are you blocked by your own stubborn fear of failing again or the uncertainty of the path to take?

Color Run

We just accomplished out first Color Run!!! It was so much fun! We ran the race pretty well then within 15-20 minutes of us finishing up pictures and such it down poured!! So much fun and we got lots of water/rain pics too!

 

Love this picture!!!!!

Help, Follow, Respect and Love him

I get various different blog updates and post for ministry wives…often they are very “mother/parent” driven… which is not too helpful in my current setting since I am not a mother J Today I came across a fitting and convicting post from Women Living Well, it was a post on Elizabeth George’s book Life Management for Busy Women. See below (my notes are the green ones)

God’s Four Words for Wives

1. Help your husband -(Genesis 2:18).
2. Follow your husband’s leadership – (Ephesians 5:22).
3. Respect your husband -(Ephesians 5:33).
4. Love your husband -(Titus 2:4).

When he is sad, cheer him.
When he is noble, praise him.
When he is generous, appreciate him.
When he is talkative, listen to him.
When he comes or goes, kiss him.

These four guidelines -help him, follow him, respect him, love him -can and should translate into four lifetime goals for you if you are married. And these next ten disciplines should assist you in the management of your marriage.

I would like to think I am great at all of these but often I find it hard to know when or how to effectively Help, Follow, Respect and Love. I mean yes I love my husband I really do but sometimes we need to show that love in a way that is received as love. I can say “I love you” a hundred times but if that is just lip service it is not an effective way of showing love.  So for this week how do I effectively Help, Follow, Respect and Love him?