"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." --- Proverbs 3:5
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Still here!
So the prices of groceries, right? Wow. Yet this is one more of those 'hopefully we prepared ahead' things.
You know where, during the good ol' days, we had tons of opportunities to collect (and put to use) terrific recipes made with inexpensive ingredients.
Which reminds me of 47 years ago (and ever since, really) when I loved my 1970's (or earlier) cookbooks because of their oh-so-cheap recipes. I mean, hey, even way back then groceries seemed high(!) especially in our tiny mountain town where we paid extra due to location.
Seriously, I mostly enjoyed those early years of opening the fridge door, spying very little, but knowing that, with a few cupboard items, I could still whip together a pleasant meal for Tom when he arrived home from work.
Those types of challenges! I thrived on them. They were my idea of old-fashioned fun, especially while tweaking recipes from vintage-scented 1940's cookbooks.
Fast forward to 2026 and some of my favorite Youtube videos? They're the ones showing wives cooking meals with those same ingredients and that identical sense of both fun and challenge enjoyment.
Now we'll come back to that, but first, the 'health woes' in my title.
Sheesh. Last month I saw my GP doctor and she sent home papers with me (as usual) which I didn't look at till weeks later (also usual. heh.) Man, she'd listed ailments she believes I have (after consulting various test results from my Buffalo doc's), some she didn't even mention during the long appointment (with a sweet resident, to be fair).
Showing Tom that list, I was all huffing-puffing upset, saying, "How dare they speak those things over me! Well, I rebuke that list in Jesus' name."
Yeah, around here I do stuff like that. シ
But even so, I've been checking out Youtube videos (mostly from Dr. Eric Berg), ones with recommendations of natural fixes like vitamins and food, etc. And I take medical notes in a cute little binder I bought where I keep the pages in alphabetical order and also include gardening tips and To Do lists. Hey, it's my book. heh.
So what's my point? And what does this all have to do with Heaven? I'm thinking that when we reach Heaven, it will matter how we faced challenges. All of them.
Did we worry every time a problem came along?
Did we fret that God would let us starve, what with all these high grocery prices? Did we doubt His creativity and provision?
With bad health reports, did our mind instantly go to the D word (death)? Did we lay awake at night worrying about these chaotic, where's-this-all-going 2026 days?
Or did we keep our mind at rest? At peace. At a high level of trust in God's having everything under control and that what's left is to discover just how He wishes we'd behave and grow and plan and practice --
-- and remain joyful in the journey. And what I believe remains for us is to remember this: in Heaven it will matter. All of our trusting and believing (and behaving in godly ways) will matter more than we realize down here.
Besides, it will remain our own personal history for, like, eternity and wouldn't it be wonderful for 'we truly trusted God' to be stamped all over that history book?
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I Woke Up In 1956 And Fell In Love With The Past What a delightful video! And as for me, I don't care that it's AI, in fact, I often tell Tom, "If something beautiful is AI, then it's still a beautiful thing." No, really. I say and think that often.
Wow, this woman decorated her mobile home so beautifully, that I couldn't even finish watching due to envy creeping in. (Does anyone else ever have to click away because of that? Tell me I'm not the only one.)
I loved this kinder, gentler way of decluttering!
Anyone interested in selling paper items on Ebay? I enjoyed her stories of how she found things and the prices she sold them for.
What a lovely traditionally-decorated (at least to me) tiny house.
And who I believe most consistently shows inexpensive, healthier-type recipes with a spirit of fun? Julia Pacheco .
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Last year the only seeds I planted were cherry tomatoes, but this year I made up for it by planting:
Blue sage
Purple coneflower
Basil
Jalapenos
Cosmos
Zinnias
Marigolds
Lettuce
... and cherry tomatoes, of course. ツ
I feel so grateful to garden this year, especially after all those doctor appointments earlier. Of course, I've done lots of my famous 'sit-down-gardening', but it really helps. Just a half hour or so each morning and I'm able to, well, mostly able to, keep up with everything out there.
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Oh, and I bought the cutest ice cube tray from Aldi. I'd not had one for years because I'd tired of trays falling from the ice compartment top of our fridge all over the floor. This one is silicone, has nine cube spaces and a lid. It's perfect! Just what I pictured in my mind.
It's rather like this, below, but is red and has nine cube thingies. I'm the only one who uses it, so it works out fine.
And one last thing....Yes! We had a couple days of heavy smoke from the Canadian fires. Orange air the first day! Then a cooler day, a little bit overcast from smoke, and now today is cool and gorgeous.
Lesson? Give God time to work things out.
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The Lord, He is good. Bless His holy name forever.
--And--
how wonderful when we can have blessed assurance that all will be well in Time.
