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20 September 2023 Holidays

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Food, history, Home, Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

How do you celebrate holidays?

The way I celebrate holidays has varied throughout my life. There used to be birthday cakes and blowing out candles and that still happens to this day even if I protest lol. Although traditional cake had been replaced with chocolate pudding dessert. The major holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas involve family gatherings and lots of food. That hasn’t changed much. Presents at Christmas has really toned down and the Idaho family does a white elephant gift exchange. Now that we have little babies, great grand children, in the mix I can imagine Santa Claus will surface!

Exodus 20:8-11New International Version

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lordblessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

19 September 2023 Baking Fail

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Food, Health, history, Home, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

I would have to say my worst baking fail is chocolate chip cookies. When you live in a different climate, altitude, access to different quality ingredients, different stove- it all affects the outcome of what your making. By the time I left Texas, I pretty much had everything down and the cookies were consistently good. I had my fans – my Dad and my exes brother in particular ! When they came to visit they would make a beeline towards the container I used to keep them in! I haven’t baked really since I got here. Just too many calories for one person.

Exodus 16:23New International Version

23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord-commande: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”

18 September 2023 Early Lesson

by saymber, posted in books, history, Home, human rights, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Movies, Spirituality and Religion, trust, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

The lesson I wish I had learned earlier in life is my value or worth. I don’t think I’ve ever really learned that lesson. To this day I still don’t really have this down. The book by Amy Tan Joy Luck Club talks about this concept. It’s a sort of muti-general trauma that gets passed on from one generation to the next. Not realizing our value or what we have until it’s compromised or gone.

https://youtu.be/tJzxpUkJYXo?si=05oiHpavYP07IU2p – Joy Luck Club Knowing your Worth

1 Corinthians 6:19-20New International Version

19 Do you not know that your bodies are templesof the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

17 September 2023 Favorite Food

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Food, Health, Home

What are your favorite types of foods?

My favorite types of foods are desserts. I like most anything sweet. Be it a candy bar or a piece of pie. As I age I can’t eat them like used to.

1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.NIV: New International Version

16 September 2023 Walking or Running (How Often)

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Health, Home, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

How often do you walk or run?

Hello to you. How are you? Todays prompt brings me back to when I used to run track and cross country in High School and the Air Force. I wasn’t the fastest runner but I was steady. I ran slow at first and then sped up towards the end of the races. My knees got bad so now I just walk and that’s a struggle for me because of chronic lower back pain I have now. I go for walks each day in the evening and have to stop about half way because of the pain. Getting old sucks but I refuse to let it keep me down.

This was one of my favorite scenes in The Chosen- Jesus heals the Leper The Chosen https://youtu.be/VL8DThllZAY?si=X5DXm1AdXxS3ZXoQ

Matthew 8:1-4New International Version

8 When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before himand said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy

3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

6 September 3023 Travel

by saymber, posted in Home, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

The furthest I’ve traveled from home was Europe when I was in the military. One of my favorite memories is when we went to visit the Swan Kings castles Neushwanstein and Linderhof in Germany. We saw them on a bus tour. What a beautiful place to have castles.

This was the song I listened to on the bus on the way there – it was snowing:

https://youtu.be/00blthlz6Fw?si=wN5N0Gp8rfUdGaMZ – Marbled Halls by Enya

We saw the castle in winter

Psalm 121:8New International Version

I’m 8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

5 August 2023 Ideal home

by saymber, posted in Home, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

What does your ideal home look like?

My ideal home doesn’t look much different than where I am living right now. The only difference would be there would be more storage, built in shelving and a doggy door. I could use a couple more square ft. I would also love a water feature like a pool or fountain. These are just wants not needs so probably not ever going come to fruition.

I don’t know if this home will be my last. I know I can’t sell this house and buy another with interest rates being what they are. I’m a little concerned about Wells Fargo bank closures as of late too!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/banking/article-12413995/The-death-bank-branch-Wells-Fargo-closes-37-stores-16-states-firms-axe-bricks-mortar-locations-local-branch-affected.html

Proverbs 24:3-4New International Version

Saying 21

3 By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.

4 September 2023 Tear of Joy

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Home, Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

What brings a tear of joy to your eye?

I used to be the “who dropped the hat lady” the person who would cry at the drop of a hat. I’m not really like that any more – the past few years events has really toughened me up. The one thing that still brings a tear of joy is seeing someone I haven’t seen in a long time. I am like a dog I think in that regard! Just so happy, on a soul level, to see you. I can remember the times my parents came to visit Kyle and I in Texas or when when my friend Melinda visited – just such a surprise and so much happiness. There are aspects like this that make me miss the house in Texas.

Proverbs 24:3-4New International Version

Saying 21

3 By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.

31 August 2023 Daily Habit

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Health, Home, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

The daily habit that improves my quality of life is walking. Each day I try to walk around the block even if I don’t want to. Taking a walk each each day is the one thing I have tried to consistently do. It’s not easy for me to do with the swaying issues I have going on in my head. Sometimes I feel like a shambling zombie I’m so stiff but I’m not giving up!

1 John 2:3-6

3 We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. 4 The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

27 August 2023 Favorite Recipe

by saymber, posted in Bipolar life, Health, Home, Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

What’s your favorite recipe?

Hello to you. I’m just back from church. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go but forced myself. I’m not having an easy time of it right now with sleep. It feels like I’m tossing and turning the whole night!

My Aunt sent me this as we love Maxine – this is so true!

One of my favorite recipes is my Moms Red Devils Food Cake. It stays so moist and tastes so good. No eggs are required either!

Easy Red Devils Food Cake

3 cups flour, 1/2 cup cocoa powder, 2 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt

2 cups cold water, 1 cup oil, 2 Tbsp vinegar, 2 tsp vanilla

Mix and put in 9×13 pan bake 35-40 min at 350 degrees. Cupcakes 15-20 min.

Romans 15:13New International Version

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.