“We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.”
— Mother Teresa
Taken from Heartlight.org

~I enjoy Mullin’s rich full voice.

Simple, cheap and healthy, that’s the way I like recipes. This was taken from AllRecipes.com Since it’s rained so much, I have a lot of free, fresh, organic mint growing around my house. I need to take advantage of all of it and make a salad.
1 cucumber, sliced
1 cup sliced celery
1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained
3 carrots, peeled and shredded
1/4 cup raisins
1 cup chopped fresh mint
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Place the cucumber, celery, garbanzo beans, carrots, raisins, and mint in a large bowl, and toss with the olive oil and red wine vinegar to coat. Serve immediately.

Taken from Our Daily Bread.org or if you would like to check out the author, David Roper’s blog, you could do that too @ E-musings.
This would be hard for American Christians to truly take to heart and have as their life goal:
As long as we have the light of day,
we must work—
not to conquer,
acquire,
accumulate,
and retire,
but to make visible the invisible Christ by touching people with His love.
We can then be confident that our “labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:58).
—David Roper
What a prayer to dare to pray . . .
Dear Heavenly Father, Help me to make visible the invisible Christ by touching others lives with His love.
In the holy name of Jesus, Amen.

Here’s a Bible story you don’t hear very much. After the children of Israel came into the Promised Land. They worshiped the false gods in the land. This angered God so He left the occupants in the land instead of helping remove them so the Israelites would full occupy all the land. When the Israelites would end up in servitude to a king they would cry out to God and God would come to their aid. In one God used a man named Ehud. This story has some entertaining details (=
Taken from Heartlight, Judges 3 (KJV):
15 But when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. 16 Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his cloak. 17 He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. 18 It came about when he had finished presenting the tribute, that he sent away the people who had carried the tribute. 19 But he himself turned back from the idols which were at Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he said, “Keep silence.” And all who attended him left him. 20 Ehud came to him while he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat. 21 Ehud stretched out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly. 22 The handle also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the refuse came out. 23 Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.
24 When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and behold, the doors of the roof chamber were locked; and they said, “He is only relieving himself in the cool room.” 25 They waited until they became anxious; but behold, he did not open the doors of the roof chamber. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the floor dead.
26 Now Ehud escaped while they were delaying, and he passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah. 27 It came about when he had arrived, that he blew the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was in front of them. 28 He said to them, “Pursue them, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hands.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan opposite Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross. 29 They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped. 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was undisturbed for eighty years.

Here’s a fun, healthy cause to join. It’s called Tulsa Million Miles. Basically, people in the Tulsa area pull together in 2009 and put in time walking/running and then record it on the website. You can even record details to help you lose weight.

Here’s a website that shows pictures of old items that you can buy. It’s called Antiques and More

National Day of Prayer~Thursday, May 7th . . . PRAY, PRAY, PRAY