They Didn't Put Me On The Schedule Today To Do Marketplace Ministry :( That's Ok I Am Doing Family Ministry & Ministry For Me Time.

I double checked a few times and I was not placed on the schedule for my marketplace ministry job for today. I did not request this day off. So you know what I have been doing this morning... I made stuffed cabbage last evening for a part of our Thanksgiving Day celebration . Today I put it into containers, did you know I made 15 stuffed cabbage rolls (I ate one last night for a quick dinner.) They turned out really good. You see the recipe says to bake them for 2 hours but I baked them an extra hour to make sure they are fork tender. Ever since I can remember some of the children (which are now grown young adults) did not like the cabbage part of the stuffed cabbage so we would make meatballs with the meat mixture for them. Of course, I made some also just for them.
Next project, I needed to make the orange butter cream frosting for the graham cracker nut cake/torte. My mom mentioned to me that her mother baked this cake often and would switch up the frosting and would sometimes frost it with a cocoa butter cream frosting. I never ate it like that, that                I can recollect. My mother did so I had that idea in the back of my mind. Know what I did? I made the basic recipe for the orange butter cream frosting base and added an extra stick of butter to it. I then divide it. One portion I made as the orange butter cream frosting and the other portion I made an orange cocoa butter cream frosting. So one half will be frosted with one frosting and the other half with the second frosting. Now my mom can enjoy a fond memory of hers and maybe someone in the family can try it and then it will be a new fond memory for them. My mother at the age of 89 still sends out Christmas cards. So, she has been gathering her postage stamps now to have them all when she is ready to send out her cards. She is an avid bird watcher now via the watch in her back yard. So you know what I purchased for her? The Birds In Winter Forever postage bird stamps to add to her collection to help her be ready for Christmas card sending. There are 4 different birds: Chickadee, Cardinal, Blue Jay and Woodpecker.
Your parents are not always going to be around with you so I have learned in this stage of my life that if simple things like this can bring joy to her then just do it. I was probably the more selfish one growing up. All about me until I caught the revelation and my heart changed and I am so glad I did. For me to be able to experience this while she is alive. Not to have waited to catch the revelation after your loved one is gone from the earth. I can be stubborn or willful at times but then I repent when I find the right way and move forward. Your love for Jesus is sort of like that. You were willful and stubborn to getting to know Him until that moment when the light came on in your heart and you invited Him into your life right? Then you realized that life will never be the same in a positive way. Not to go back to the old ways and think patterns. I am most grateful for Jesus and the salvation He gave to me by Him dying on the cross just for me. So I will be with Him in heaven for all eternity and not in hell for all eternity.
A few weeks ago friends of mine gave me 4 DVD's to watch. I kept them and did not actually view them until my friends asked me if I had a chance to view them yet. My response was no that I have been pretty busy and did not know what they were about. I spoke with them while on the way to my Impromptu Jesus journey the other evening. They explained and I said I would view them this weekend. Well, today is the day. I viewed "Finger of God.: Next One will be "Father of Lights." To then  be followed by "Furious Love" and "Holy Ghost." They are all Darren Wilson films.
You know what else I did this morning, I rearranged pans, serving dishes, platters etc. My children laugh at this one. Do you know what I use my dishwasher for? Most people do dishes in theirs, not me. I like to hand wash dishes. Now if there is a dinner party and there are lots of dishes to be done then I will use the dishwasher. I do have dish washing detergent for it in the event I do use it. I find my dishwasher is a great place to store containers. It is overflow storage for me. Yes it is. So I went through and disposed of extra's I had and made sure each container had a place in their storage home.
Back to viewing the DVD's now. I may write about this really nice set of notecards I purchased because I had to send out correspondence. If you should see another blog post you will know that I did write about it.