~~Recipe for a NEW YEAR~~

Good evening, I apologize for not having a morning post nor my lunchtime food for thought, I found to day that I have had the stomach flu or medically termed the norovirus gastroenteritis. I promise you it is not a fun time in the old city! My Wayde is still in bed on day number 3 and I have been from the bed to the couch to the bed again. I am sorry to say I had to miss out on one of the most important things I have ever been invited to do, I was supposed to get to see my unborn grandbaby on sonogram tomorrow and me and only me was going to get to know the sex and not share this with my daughter or her hubby until Feb 4th for a birthday present to her. This sickness has not only cost us extra money for but also would have been to dangerous for me to be with her, I would have been in fear of passing it on to her or Derek or both. So my heart is broken and I cannot seem to stop the flow of tears! I know all things happen for a reason, I just wish I knew what the reason is. 

In prayer this evening I asked God to bless me and mine with health, I asked Him to wrap his arms around me and hold me as I sit and weep over missing the special day tomorrow and I ask him to bless my baby with her thoughts being laid calm regarding the health of her baby! I asked God to continue to bless each of you with his love, his peace, his calm and his comfort. I asked God to hold my sister's father in law in his loving arms, to comfort him as he is going through his physical medical struggles and if it be His will to wax him strong enough to pull through and make a full recovery, if it be His will to call him home, to comfort him, to ease any fear he may have and to surround him with all of those who have gone before him to include his beautiful wife. Father comfort his family and bless them with calm and comfort as they stand in wait. I ask all of the blessings and mercies in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen

I came across this sweet little recipe for a Happy New Year and thought it was one to share,  hope that you enjoy it and I pray that you will take it and use it in your new year! 

Recipe for a Happy New Year

  Anonymous

    Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time. Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day at a time.

    Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it), prayer, meditation, and one well-selected resolution. Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.