Not always easy. Always the right answer.
Courtesy of BrainyQuotes and Mother Teresa.
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Category: Happy
[002] Reminder: Show the Love
This one from one of my favorite voices for men, dads, families on social media, John Finch.
Celebrating Susan, 2017
A dozen years back I met this amazing person. Her name is Susan. I was really lucky. She taught me a lot about myself and love and learning.
A few years later she became my wife. Together we made a family, now with three little children. I am even more lucky now.
Susan teaches me about myself and other ways of being that are good. She challenges me and loves me and stands with me. She helps make life worthwhile. I am SO lucky.
Today we celebrate her birthday, and I thank God and fate and my lucky stars in the sky for Susan, this amazing, smart, funny, inspiring, caring, solid human being I’m going through life with.
The kids and I are so fortunate, so blessed so filled with GOOD because of her.
Happy Birthday to You, Susan!
Ingredients
I’m known for putting together rather eclectic meal combinations from time to time.
Might be my dad’s influence — peanut butter, bananas, some mayo, maybe with a pickle, was one of his favorite “dishes “(so to speak).
One of my lunches this week provides a good example: I found in various places in the fridge…Brussels sprouts, gnocchi, and ground beef from left-over hamburger. Tossed in in a Tupperware, threw it in my work bag, and away I went. At lunch time, I heated for two minutes thirty seconds in the microwave at work, voila! Chow Time.
Crazy? Well maybe, but it was delicious, and it used left overs in the fridge I felt compelled to gobble up. This situation also provides some insight on a life approach that goes beyond the kitchen and meal prep.
Access your ingredients, consider your combinations, be creative, “re-purpose” as needed (“hamburger” becomes “ground beef”) make the most of what you have.
I feel like I’m in the Iron Chef competition every time I open the fridge to figure out what to take to work for lunch the next day.
The core skill-set is the same: base knowledge, open mind, and creativity.
And then?
Well it’s pretty simple. Get some good. Make it tasty. And what else? Well of course, teach your kids.
What exactly?
It’s all in how you use the ingredients before you to make a dish, or the best of any situation, and put a little smile on your face.
Sunday Prayer
Loving God, please grant us your inspiration, instruct us in your ways, guide us through the obstacles each of us face, allow us to feel your support in the darkness, find our way through to the light, and filled with your Spirit, empower us to lift each other up. AMEN.
Bliss
Not sure how often parents use that word to describe their experience with their kids, but it’s worth reflecting on right now.
10:27p at night, long day followed by a hurried eve, and now, the house is dark and I hear another snoring from the kids’ room.
That’s it. Peace when and where it is. Embrace it. Let it sink deep into you.
BLISS.
