Guess What This Little Hadassah Did Today, That's Me, Silly.

I felt all day long to make home made chicken noodle soup. I scrubbed my patio today, at least to the point where I could reach. I was not going to get on a ladder to clean this patio when I am moving in the near future. I still like things neat and orderly and clean too. So this evening I sat on my patio and I felt led to work in the "Torah Teachers and You" workbook I have. I worked on a couple of lessons this evening. This is a child's workbook and I love that you read and then there are questions to answer. With no answer guide in the book to cheat, just kidding, not cheat but to look up the correct answers that is. I only have about 6 more chapters left to complete this delightful workbook. I must admit I like a challenge and being able to look up answers to questions to get them right.
So I come in after sitting on the patio and the soup is done. I love making soup in my electric pressure cooker. The chicken breast I use is so fork tender and the carrots are just right. I have found out this works best, I place the washed/peeled carrots whole into the pressure cooker with the soup to cook. Then after the soup is done I then take the carrots and slice them to add to the soup. I do not like to see any carrot section that has not been scraped or peeled it just does not look appealing in the soup. So I try to make sure I peel it and get it all peeled. Just a little idiosyncrasy of mine. I also cook the noodles separate and only use what is needed and put the rest in a container for future use. If you put them in the soup and store it that way they tend to absorb the broth. Before I finish up preparing the already cooked  soup. As I walk in from the patio this song rises up inside me and I am humming it and singing it to myself. Paul Wilbur, Baruch Haba (blessed is He who comes.)
I also packed my craft type of items today along with my cards/note cards and jewelry making paraphernalia. Sure hope I  do not have to make up a hostess type of tray or anything like that because a lot of the items I use are already packed. If I had to (I like to label boxes so I know what is inside them) I could find what I need to make one up. Well, I am packing up bit by bit and I still have no solid clue as to where I am moving. Do not worry or fret because I have been here other times and He always comes through to me. I keep seeing in the spirit some sort of cottage type of home. This will be a home filled with love and worship and it will also be used for a rest place for ministers to come and refresh when needed. That will take place after I move from that location. See, Holy Spirit gives you bits and pieces here and there and you just say ok and He walks you through it. That is the fun part of this journey.
My soon to be 91year old mother had her annual check up and she is doing great. Really, she is doing great. No arthritis medicine or blood pressure medicine also. Her doctor gave her instructions a while back on taking capsule form turmeric and I think she said vitamin d or b. The combination is working and she does not take Tylenol or anything for arthritis aches because they seem to have subsided. She will show me the label when I see her in a bit and she thinks I should try it too. I am getting so excited to see my sisters mini golden doodle, she is so cute. Do you think she will remember me teaching her to show me where the angles are? If not, I start over again as a refresher course. This dog is pretty smart from what I hear. When she goes to training they send home videos with her in them learning things/commands. When they play the video she recognizes herself and she gets on her hind legs and gets close to the screen to watch the commands they are giving her in the video. How funny is that? She also loves swimming, she took to the water naturally when swimming in the lake a few weeks ago.
I think that is my update for now so have a lovely evening, morning, afternoon whatever the time of day is when you read this.

Paul Wilbur - Baruch Haba (Blessed Is He Who Comes)

Here's a tidbit from one of my workbook lessons I did today. Rabbi Solomon ben Itzhak 1040-1105 was known as "Rashi."  "The Shema says "You shall love the Lord your God...with all your might. Rashi's commentary on the Torah explains this phrase. Rashi says"Your might refers to all of your possessions. There are people who value their possessions more than they value themselves." He also says: "With all your might refers to everything God has given you, whether with goods or with poverty, with good or with evil, even in sadness, to continue to serve God."
So after another lesson there was this. "Judah Halevi in a poem explains his love for the Sabbath.
To love you I drink my cup,
Shalom to you, shalom, O seventh day.
The first six days are like your slaves;
I work restlessly through them,
But they seem like only a few days because
of my love for you, O wonderful day."