Be Still and Know...Then and Now

I had never had a hip injection before so I was a bit apprehensive going into the procedure. Unless you have nerves of steel, I think most normal folks would experience moments of apprehension at the prospect of any medical procedure that involves long needles. During major surgery you have the benefit of being unconscious, however for this very minor procedure a small local anesthetic was all that was required. I was patient #7. It was like a human cattle call, we were all lined up in a medical assembly line, each partitioned off in our separate little curtained waiting areas with our warmed blankets, hospital gowns, matching disposable shower caps and fuzzy socks with the skid proof tread on the feet. The doctor actually had to help me put on my fuzzy socks as I could not bend over to put them on myself. She had come in to introduce herself. She took pity on me when she noticed that I had only managed to get one sock on. She bent down retrieved the lone sock and put it on for me. ...

I promised I would share about my funny! Well here it is! In my last P365 post I shared about a canning demonstration that Skoots1mom and I went to. If you are a regular here then you know I enjoy my time in the kitchen and I especially get a sense of connection to my Grandmother when I am canning my jam’s and jellies. However you want to know my take away for the whole experience….what did I learn? I was watching the woman do her demonstration. It was an epiphany of humiliation! Several years ago for my birthday Skoots1mom gave me a “Thing and a Thing” as I have affectionately referred to them since she gave them to me. You can click here to read the post about it! Their official culinary terms are a jar lifter and funnel! But I digress. So there I am sitting in the room raptly watching the woman give us all the necessary details about the art of pressure canning when she reaches over and picked up “The Thing” and proceed to lift up one of the jars up to put in into the p...

I opened my bible this morning and began to read the passage selected for the day. There are times when scriptures fall into my lap and I want to just brush them off and look for an easier or more warm and fuzzy lesson. God, however has a way of knowing exactly when to place the comfort and the warm fuzzes in your path and when not to as well. When I am faced with a somewhat less than happy faced scripture, well it at time feels like a bitter pill to swallow, especially when I am in the mood for a warm fuzzy moment. I woke this morning not quite myself. My physical body was less than cooperative and I wanted comfort. I sought something…….. God’s word met me very quietly and said: HAB 3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, HAB 3:18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. My human translation is this,...

It is amazing how a very small detail, a seemingly insignificant detail, has the power to impact the outcome of either your success or failure. In the grand scheme of thing this particular example really is of no significant what so ever. But as I thought about what brought about the insignificant situation it began to flesh out for me in a very real and significant way. Here is a life lesson: When baking follow the recipe exactly! You see I am making a small wedding cake for a dear friend. It is a very small cake and I will also share in that is has been many years since I actually have done a wedding cake. After having located all the pans, turntables, decorating tips, separator plates, columns etc. necessary (as they were all packed away in boxes in the attic) I set about to find an appropriate pound cake recipe or the occasion. I found a recipe that I thought would work very well, I gathered all my ingredients and set to work. What resulted was one of the worst cake disasters I thi...