During the sermon this week at church, our Pastor challenged us to evaluate our life.  He asked these very thought provoking questions…….

What if everyone worshiped like you did?

What if everyone tithed like you did?

What if everyone spent time reading the Word like you did?

What if everyone walked in the Spirit of the Lord like you did?

What if everyone prayed as much as you do?

What if everyone smiled as much as you do?

What if everyone encouraged others as much as you do?

We can go on and on with this list, but how true it is.  Why do we expect others to do things, but our own selves will not do?   We may look at our “smaller” church and question why no one worships God like they do at the “bigger” churches.  We may look at the ministry and think they don’t have as much for the children as they do in a “bigger, more established place.”  We may look at our friend’s marriage and think our husbands are “jerks” compared to how other husbands treat their wives, and that WE should have that.  But what is the KEY that we are missing from all of this?????

We need to do what it is we are CALLED to do.  If we look around in our church and see no one participating in worship—well then YOU start it.  Let them see someone completely unafraid to step out and worship God as He deserves.  Don’t just leave and go somewhere else where the “worship is better.”  Start a fire in your church and watch it spread!!!    Your church doesn’t have ministry opportunities for your children……start something!!!  Find something that you can do and do it!  Someone has to begin the change, it doesn’t just automatically happen.  Do you want to see things change in your marriage???  Start praying daily,  for your husband.  Start changing yourself and see the difference that it will make in your relationship.  This goes for your children as well.  You don’t like something, then fix it.  But you have to do something!  Things aren’t going to change by us just sitting around waiting for God to do the changing.  It begins with us.

Become a change!!!!  Let others see the passion of fire that burns inside of you.  Start today.  Ask yourself these questions about your own life and see if there is something you can do to change things.

He who is faithful in the little…..will be faithful in much!

Luke 16:10

I know you will be blessed.  Your marriage will be blessed.  Your relationships with your children will be blessed.  Your church will be blessed.  Your communities will be blessed.  Our world will be blessed.

IF we all do as though we want others to do.

Have a great day today!!!

One of my favorite sandwiches to make are my ham and cheese sliders.  They are a quick way to make a large amount of food for cheap.  My daughter Lauren was showing me one of those videos from her news feed that do recipes really quick.  Genius idea!!!  Puts an entire step by step recipe on video in under one minute!! My kind of way.  Well this was one recipe that caught my eye.  Of course I had to go by what I remembered of how to make it, so this is what we do.

I layered my pan with the bottom half of slider buns.  In a chicken fryer, I browned my meat, added an entire whole onion chopped up—this is important–you want that good onion flavor.  (use the food processor–way faster)  I then added one can of diced tomatoes.  Salt and pepper for seasoning.  Put a dab of that on each bun—it goes quick.  We then took a cheese slice and ripped it into fourths and put one on each burger.  I chopped up some pickles and added those as well.  Then put on the tops.  Put them into your oven on 350 with foil to melt the cheese for about 15 minutes, take off the foil to give them a little crispness to the bun for about 5 minutes.  We actually like them plain like this, but we have tried doing the glaze that we put on the ham and cheese ones.  It makes it sweeter which is okay, but not our favorite.  We then also brushed the tops with just butter—that was okay too.  We then did some with butter and garlic–okay as well.  But I found that they were just as good plain for our family.  This is a favorite go to recipe, because I always have ground beef on hand in the freezer, so when I come across some buns for cheap I grab them and freeze them.  Where we don’t always have lunchmeat for the ham ones on hand, so this is more convenient.  Try them, they remind me of a good slider.  Like good ones—not greasy yuck:)

Enjoy your day today!  I am looking forward to planting some flowers today, It is nice to be able to give your home a little sprucing up in something as simple as adding flowers for color.  Be encouraged today, knowing that another mother is in the same situation as you are.  Know that you are loved by the Lord and that when you are feeling sad and down, He is the ONLY one who can comfort and fill that void.  Be blessed today.

Amy