Fitnes Friday: More on Snacks

I was going to comment on Lily's post, with more snack ideas, but then I thought I'd just make the comment into a post: Part Two.

greek yogurt
almond butter on anything (english muffins, fruit, toast, etc.)
celery and peanut butter
peanut butter smoothies
almonds
cheese and crackers
fruit (and some fruits are really yummy frozen, like grapes)
small salads (there are so many things you can put in a salad to make it yummy and interesting)

There are so many good snack ideas. We might be back on another Friday with Part Three, but for now, I'm signing off. Back tomorrow, perhaps? with a weekends are for... post.

Weekends Are For Just a Bit of Grace?

(Just late on a Saturday night, might you please forgive? The days have been wild and crazy and messy here, so thank you for grace. I haven't been posting much lately as I'm running to catch loads of laundry and siblings at math classes and a snack for the hungry ones and a sewing project just finished late and a friend to see here and little ones to watch there and oh the rush keeps me always running, always finding grace in the messy business of now...here...this place. So might I try a fresh start on Monday morning? A little of the Gospel trickling into this hard soul...softening a spot in the desperately parched places? All this on His Day. And how He sends us into the week with fresh views of the Savior. How He loads us up with shalom, just enough to get us to the table again next week. So with the feast coming, thank you for grace. If He wills I'll be back on Monday morning, counting the ways He loves...never-ending grace! And maybe...just maybe...a little more regular posting this next week? All's grace!)

One Year Ago Today

Well, I'm not quite sure how to write this post, but I feel that I do need to write something...

It's been a whole year, today, since I first left for New York. 

Well, I'm not really sure how to write this post, but it has been fun to remember that day and all the ways the Lord arranged for me to go and blessed the time that I was there.  I really do have some of the sweetest memories from that trip.  I wish I could say in words what is felt in the heart.  The whole trip was so outside of anything I've ever done before and it was fun and wonderful and the Lord began building friendships and He let me hear sermons from that pulpit in Franklin Square and He brought great conversations (ones I still think about often) and lots of laughs, and chocolate and children and trips to the beach in jeans.

So I suppose I found something to say...thank you for listening as I remember that special day.  Thank you for grace.

Fitness Friday: On Snacks

...a bit late!

The running has gone well my first two weeks of school. Of course, I do not have time to run, but everyone must make little sacrifices in order to do what is needful. :P

I thought it would be a good idea to bring the topic of snacks to the tea table! In a very fast paced environment, finding healthy on-the-go options is rather difficult. It's easy to become imbalanced and give into cravings or quick fillers. So let me share a few snacks of my own and please share your own in return!

Sliced apple and almond butter

Nuts

Popcorn

Trail Mix*

*Here's what I put in my trail mix. (I know! Not all of it is healthy, but it's better than opening a package of Pringles!)

Mixed Nuts

Honey Nut Cheerios

Apple Cinnamon Cheerios

Craisins

Raisins

White Chocolate Chips

Peanut M&Ms

Pretzels

Nuts are very filling, and adding a bit of sugar (chocolate!) helps give me a quick energy boost as well.

Hope to get some more snack ideas!

Lily

A Bit Late...

A dear sister sent this to me on Wednesday, but in the wild and crazy this week I haven't gotten to post it until now. Perhaps we'll miss Fitness Friday this week in favor of just this?

Good morning beloved,

Thought of you and wanted to celebrate the anniversary of this saint's passing into glory. A day like this do we all long for; when we shall see him as he is!

The day before his death, Owen wrote to a friend...

I am going to Him whom my soul has loved, or rather who has loved me with an everlasting love—which is the whole ground of my consolation…I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm; but whilst the great Pilot is in it, the loss of a poor under-rower will be inconsiderable. Live, and pray, and hope, and wait patiently, and do not despond; the promise stands invincible, that He will never leave us, nor forsake us.

The next day, William Payne, a Puritan minister of Saffron Waldon, arrived to tell Owen that the first sheets of Meditations on the Glory of Christ had passed through the press. With uplifted eyes and hands, Owen replied...

I am glad to hear it; but, oh brother Payne, the long wished for day is come at last, in which I shall see that glory in another manner than I have ever done, or was capable of doing, in this world.

328 years ago today, (August 24, 1683) John Owen met his Savior face to Face. He was buried in Bunhill Fields beside many of his Puritan contemporaries.

Few there are that die so well.