Todays Thoughts

Loved the LDS General Conference last Saturday and Sunday, so many of the messages I needed to hear and I just loved spending the two days with my little family while we watched the session live online. In church today one of our lessons was about trials and what we have learned from having them. The teacher has several ladies stand up and share their own personal trials in life and the lessons that they took from some of them. A couple were or had been single moms, one had a history of abuse, sad things with her babies, and cancer to top it all off. Listening to what they had shared about their past really put into perspective my own trials (and how livable they are). But most of all I realized that I need to get to know and rely on my savior more than I do. I really believe that me and my family are never meant to be millionaires or even well off financially, its just not in the cards.. but we have always had our needs taken care of. Even when we had eaten all of our food storage and there was just nothing left we still survived and were able to move past that point in our lives. If you have followed my blog for some time you would know that my husband has been through lots (I mean lots) of jobs in our short 7 years of marriage. He has been great to take whatever job he could find and the longest he had ever gone without a job I believe was 2-3 weeks. He currently is employed but not getting the hours we so desperately need him to get. Luckily we have our tax return helping us pay the bills where his paycheck is just not. Needless to say it is stressful and worrisome, and when I think about it, it brings me down. Deep down though I know that it will all work out, if we continue on doing all that we can to support ourselves anything lacking will be met. I've had the lucky chance of experiencing this first hand so many times. I know that my Heavenly Father is watching over me and my little family and has an interest in me, just like he has an interest in you.

Milled Lentil Brownies

I made my first Gluten free recipe, I'm not GF but I did want to use my stockpiled bags of lentils. They turned out pretty huh? (they are actually good too). If you want to check out the recipe you can follow this link to my other blog and get the whole thing. http://searchforsimple.blogspot.com/2013/04/lentil-flour-brownies.html