The Pleasure Nugget

Here is my own invention of a the much loved American favorite, the chocolate chip cookie. I used whole wheat flour and oatmeal so you can call these cookies, "healthy".  I love a chewy and crunchy cookie and that is what you will find as you bite into this pleasure nugget! It is so good you can have one for a breakfast on the run.

Chocolate Oatmeal Pecan Cookies

1 cup of butter (softened)
1 3/4 packed brown sugar
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 Tbsp corn syrup
3 cups oatmeal (blended)
1 cup oatmeal
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 bag of chocolate chips
1 square of chocolate, grated
1 cup chopped pecans
Blend butter, add brown sugar and vanilla cream well, add eggs, mix until fluffyish. Grind 3 cups of oatmeal in food processor or blender till well ground add salt, baking soda and baking powder whirl around till well mixed. Blend in ground oatmeal mixture, whole oatmeal and wholewheat flour. Stir in chocolate chips and ground chocolate. Make into 1 1/2 inch balls. Bake 325F for 10-12 minutes on parchment. Enjoy! Remember to use your liberties with nuts, other dried fruits and or kind of chips. I believe in personalizing according to the needs of the moment and the opportunities that present its'self.

Taste and see the Lord is good, blessed is he who trusts in Him. Psalm 34:8

Ah, a missionary life for me!

Rainy Spring Days

I am so content to enjoy a lazy day. Hubby is home for Spring break. We are planting our back yard. So far we have pink rhodes, lithodora, cyprus, photinia, laurel and forsythia. I started to grow seeds for perennials about 3 weeks ago. They are about 2 inches tall, now. I am planning an herb garden. But I'm not sure where I'll put it. I am excited about growing tomatoes and cucumbers, my favorite vegetables to munch on. I have seeded peas and will be planting them soon.
I was able to enrich our front yard with grass seed and peat moss. I am able to do these activities slowly and not hurt myself. Our front yard is in desperate need of green color. I enjoy the delights of nurturing that what I've been entrusted. I have already prayed with Darrel that the Lord will allow the seeds to sprout and beautify our lawn. I was so happy to hear that we are expecting rain over the next week. I'll have to be diligent to water for 2-3 weeks if it doesn't rain. We just had a real down pour with hail, now it's only a nice sprinkle. Chow for now!

1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

Christ's Peace

This is what I cry out for...PEACE.

God went to great extremity to give me what I long for. Christ died for the ungodly. Practically, what does this mean?

I find it happens when I am quiet, maybe I am doing mundane chores, it can happen as I review the events of the day or if I am awaken from my nights rest. What is it that wars in our hearts and creates distress in our lives and shatters our peace? The should haves, could haves, would haves. Are these thoughts from God? Self talk has an interesting power over me.

The written word is powerful, but the spoken word makes me want to act immediately. Are the words we hear coming from a dark voice of condemnation? Are they instructive? Do they lift and cause our hearts to joy? Or make us hang our heads in shame?

The word of God teaches

It is an awesome thing to be made new. A new heart. What a treasured gift.

God is interested in making a new creature. One who has the freedom to respond freely from the heart.
It was accomplished at the cross.

Ephesians 2:15 By abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the enmity [caused by] the Law with its decrees and ordinances [which He annulled]; that He from the two might create in Himself one new man [one new quality of humanity out of the two], so making peace.