January 2010

Hello everybody, it’s that time, all is well here and loving life.

Here we are in January, past Christmas and I think it’s a great place to be.  I just finished a beautiful cup of Hazelnut coffee, with two Banana Cranberry muffins for my midmorning breakfast. It’s Saturday, and here I are at the computer. I’m going to give you the recipe for muffins just before ending the article (its vegan). These will contribute to your health not take away from it!

I’m gonna give you some good news, about emotional healing and living in better health. Actually what I’m about to say is something you may have forgot, so I’m bringing you into awareness. It’s up to you, and if you decide to accept it, you’ll experience a heart change a new attitude. It’s all about what you believe, and like most of us we’re learning to believe God’s word rather than how you read it and interpret it for yourself, or have been taught.  No more waiting, let’s accept being whole and emotionally well. This is important: God never ask us to do anything that we don’t have the ability to do.  

Let go of unforgiveness, it will kill you; it has to be dealt with! The bible tells us to forgive all manner of sin of all men. We’re not smarter than God even though at times we think we are and would never dream of saying it out loud, or to anyone unless you’re kidding around, and even if you’ve acquired many degrees, you’re not smarter than God, period….  God knew when he created us what we would need. I’ll stop here, think about this, and get into the scriptures for you, I’ll write more about this later on.

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Nelva’s Banana Cranberry Muffins

Enjoy the recipe: Preheat oven to 400 degrees bake for 25-35 minutes and lightly brush olive oil in muffin pan, makes 12 large.

2 cups of Fiber One Cereal crushed or Meijer Bran and Bits crushed

½ cup of broken pieces of Pecans or Walnuts (I usually use pecans I like the flavor)

1 cup of whole wheat flour

½ cup Spelt flour (not white or enriched). (Buy at a Health food store).

3 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. cinnamon

1 tbs. each Whole Psyillum Husk (this is wonderful for elimination).

1 tbs. Flax seeds golden or brown (Buy at health food store). If you’re interested go online to find out the benefits, they are fantastic.

Mix all the above together

1 egg or use Energy Egg Replacer and follow recipe for 1 egg. (Buy at health food store).

2 Bananas (ripe)

½ tsp. vanilla

2 tbs. Olive Oil

½ cup of honey

1 cup of water

1 cup chopped up frozen cranberries, not dried, (set aside).

Put all of the wet ingredients into a blender. When finished the consistency should be somewhat like applesauce. Now it’s time to pour this into dry ingredients mix and add chopped cranberries and fill muffin pan.  These are good looking and are tasty!

Until next time enjoy the clean humor!

Our granddaughter Lindsy, 10 has two younger sisters. When she lost a tooth, she put it under her pillow with this note:

“Dear Mom and Dad, I don’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy, but if you give me 5$, I won’t tell Paige or Ruth Anna.”

Bill and Doris Gordon, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

December 2009

Hello everybody, it’s that time, all is well here and loving life.

Winter is here, and if you’ve lived in Michigan very long and talked to many people, winter is not their cup of tea. It’s not really mine either, but I choose to enjoy it anyway. In my November article I wrote about being more accepting, and learning the art of accepting change, and I am. Today I’ll share with you my point of view of coming into the winter months and enjoying Christmas.

This transformation, this acceptance includes every aspect of life. I came out of years of being depressed and wanting to experience real happiness and did not. Up to that point it was elusive, it was always out of my reach. I couldn’t find love; I didn’t even know what I was looking for. Maybe you understand, and you live your life out of lack. Well it doesn’t have to be that way, you can let it go and choose to believe.

For many years of my life winter and Christmas was a time of depression. Like most people, I liked the first snow so the beginning was ok, but as we moved into January I felt like it was going to be too much and it would hang around too long and I would become more depressed. For me Christmas was a time to overspend, and it seems like I never had enough money, never got what I wanted, I experienced feelings of unworthiness,  not fitting in, covering up the pain of being wounded, like I’ve got it altogether, and I got tired of trying to fit into my idea of who I should be. I have come to know that people, are not here to make me happy!

Keep in mind most of what I experienced was what I had come to believe about myself and others. Because I was hurt, I was blaming the world for all of my pain.  My fear was that this wounded little girl would come out of this adult woman and she would have a horrible tantrum in front of God and every one, and you may not be able to handle it. So I carefully kept my guard up.

I wanted so much to be nice, and treat you with kindness, and I did pretty well for a while. But honestly the holidays were depressing for me. I felt like there was pressure inside me driving me to act out bad behavior in word or deed. At the time I didn’t know I could take captive every thought, if it was not from God. I’ve had a lot of relationship issues. I knew my life was out of control, I was hurt and so I labeled life as being a cheap trip!!!

Life is bittersweet.  That’s how it is; it’s part of the journey. I know this now but this might be your first time hearing it! The good news is we don’t have to stay stuck. We can all choose to believe different about the finished work of Jesus Christ. The bill has been paid; we don’t have to give Satan anymore of our life. We all can be victorious, and enjoy our moments.  This is what it means to be an over comer!

Healing only comes to us when we’re willing to seek his face, and become responsible to love Him, self and everyone else.

The good news is Jehovah is my provider, and has interrupted my thinking with his truth, his point of view.  I don’t know about you but God said we can enjoy life, so it’s up to you and me. I choose to believe it! All you and I have is right now, and that’s all we need.  We all need a heart change. I had to stop trying to figure it all out. I don’t have the ability to figure it all out anyway. I couldn’t trust anymore.

I’ve had lots of fears of being with people, and I lived in a continued state of being ornery. But thanks be to God I’m no longer this way, I have accepted the grace of God I said yes to His peace, love, joy, and rest. Everyone around me is happy about this transformation also.

You and I can stop sabotaging our life. We can stop blaming and accept responsibility for where our decisions have taken us. We can let go of the lie we’ve held onto of being afraid of being whole. We’ve been duped!!!

But there is a condition none of us know what being whole looks and feels like apart from an active relationship with Jesus Christ. In my search for happiness, apart from Christ I became more self centered, and so will you. Everything we’ve experienced in our search for real love up until now is a copy, it’s not pure. God is not twisted, that would be our crazy thinking.

This is why we need a Savior, to save us from anything we need to be saved from. All God has ever wanted is to have a relationship with you and me and to take the limits off too experience a peace, love and joy we’ve not known.

To experience an intimacy we’ve never had. So let’s remember, Christmas is only one day of the year, but you and I can experience love every day, and having no lack emotionally. So we do have control, and can enjoy our day.

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Until next time enjoy the clean humor!

Grandmother and granddaughter, a very precocious ten-year-old was spending the evening together when the little girl suddenly looked up and asked, “How old are you, Grandma?” The woman was a bit startled at the question, but knowing her granddaughter’s quick little mind, she wasn’t completely shocked. “Well, honey, when you’re my age you don’t share your age with anybody.”

“Aw, go ahead, Grandma….. You can trust me.”

“No, dear, I never tell anyone my age.”   Grandmother got busy fixing supper and then she suddenly realized the little darling had been absent for about twenty minutes—much too long! She checked around upstairs in her bedroom and found that her granddaughter had dumped the contents of her grandmother’s purse on top of her bed and was sitting in the midst of the mess, holding her grandmother’s driver’s license. When their eyes met, the child announced: “Grandma, you’re seventy—six.”  “Why yes, I am. How did you know that?”

“I found the date of your birthday here on your driver’s license and subtracted that year from this year, so you’re seventy—six!”

“That’s right, sweetheart. Your grandmother is seventy—six.” The little girl continued staring at the driver’s license and added you also made an F in sex, Grandma.”

Laugh Again   Charles Swindoll