Good Morning Everyone,
So today is Sunday. I love Sundays. I’m thinking about cooking a “comfort” food I found a recipe for on FB yesterday. It is called: “Slow Cooker Quinoa Chicken Chili”. It sounds right up my alley. I was reminded of Quinoa the other day at work. We had a seminar of cooking on a budget – something like that, but anyway it was presented by our Wellness team and a woman from Blue Cross came in and gave us a talk about how to save money with certain types of food by using food that “stretches” and Quinoa was mentioned. I started knowing about Quinoa when I started the “wheat free” thing I’m doing. No more bread or items with wheat. Trying to get rid of my “belly fat”. It hasn’t been working all that well, but I’ll keep trying. So after church, I’ll take a ride to Walmart and pick up a few things. I’m looking at the recipe and my slow cooker is pretty small – I’m wondering if it will all fit in there or if I need to cut the recipe in half. Not sure about that. Of course I can always get the stuff and if I need to cut it in half, I will have the stuff to use for a second batch.
Sunday is my “day of rest” and contemplation. I have a book (a journal really) that my girlfriends gave me on one of our “Beaches” weekends. I ” hand” write quotes that I find various places in there. This morning I found the following one: “It is the quality of my life that determines its value. The most valuable life is one of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love.” I write these down by hand in this book as I want to be able to still write legibly. Using a keyboard to “write” is much faster and so much easier to read, but handwriting is important also. I never had great handwriting and it’s getting worse as I get older. I hear they are not teaching cursive any longer in schools. That is too bad. I never wrote well in cursive, but I think it is something that should still be taught. My dad had wonderful handwriting. I always loved seeing his notes. Don’t think I have any samples any longer. My mom was “left handed” and she wrote well also. She learned to write with a straight hand rather then curled around like a lot of “lefties” do. She had nice handwriting also. I just get lazy when I write so sometimes it is hard to read. My hand written journal began in 2011. I wrote down 18 quotes in 2011, 17 in 2012, 11 in 2013 and so far in 2014 only 3. Now that I have this “blog” going, I wonder how often I’ll put things down in writing. Only time will tell.
Today I was reading my devotional from Richard Rohr and found this interesting…..”The mind can only reprocess the past, judge the present, and worry about the future. Only some form of meditation will teach you how to move from an egocentric, fear-based life to a love-based life.”
So now I’m thinking about going back to “Yolanda” on Tuesdays at 6. I enjoyed it the first (and only) time I went there. I spoke about Yolanda and her meditation session in a previous blog. But to get back to the Richard Rohr quote (I didn’t write this one down in my journal as it is here in this journal now) – I think it sums up my life pretty well. Maybe meditation should become more active in my life. I just find it hard to shut my mind down and quiet myself. My mind keeps jumping from thing to thing.
Like right now, I’m thinking about my toilet in my master bathroom. It runs and runs and wastes so much water. This morning I turned off the water to it (I think – not sure about that) and Home Tech is coming on Friday to repair it. Fridays are better days for me to leave early. This week is going to be very busy at work and I don’t want to have to leave for my 3 hour window at 2PM – but I can on Friday. Anyway, the Home Tech people told me to “turn” it off and use the other bathroom instead. That is all well and good, but I get up in the middle of the night and I need to use the bathroom and I don’t want to walk all the way down to the other bathroom, so I’m thinking about sleeping in the guest room until Friday. So I’ll try that tonight and see how it goes.
Well, I think I’m done for today. I may come back later and add something if the spirit moves me. Off to get ready for church. I wonder if I can ride Red to church today. I’ll check the weather map to see. I still have the door open for the kitties to my front porch so the temperature is lower today. Have a great day!
