Cooking With What You Have

Today I tried an experiment with Flatbread and it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. I Googled "yeast free flatbread recipe" and found a very basic recipe online that only required flour, salt, warm water, and oil, did a little math, and cooked up an easy peasy flatbread.

I put tomato, spinach, and feta cheese on one, wrapped it up, and voila, lunch!

Changes

• Sister getting married
• New apartment
• New roommates
• (hopefully soon) New Job

A Thought

Mottos are better in Latin. For example:
o Semper Fidelis ("Always Faithful," U.S. Marines)
o Regnum Defende ("Defend the Realm," British Security Services)
o Dominus Illuminatio Mea "(The Lord is my light," Oxford University)
o E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one"; Great Seal of the United States)
o Carpe Diem ("Seize the day")
o Dum spiro spero ("While I breathe, I hope")
o Sic semper tyrannis ("Thus always to tyrants")

Eucharisteo (Giving Thanks)

o For baby boys being born almost exactly when their mothers predicted, two weeks early
o For Cammie’s toe-prints on my windshield
o For work
o For food in my fridge
o For gas in my car
o For full bottles of shampoo
o For books that make you recognize how good God is

Observations

Genesis 19:15-22, “As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’ But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.”

Look how good God is to Lot. Though Lot knows perfectly well how wicked the town is in which he lives, still he stays, and would have been destroyed if he hadn’t been forcibly removed. This is how God saves us. He seizes us in the midst of our insane, ridiculous stubbornness (it’s so obvious Lot should leave!) and takes us out of our sin, which would ultimately destroy us. This isn’t about Lot being a better person than his neighbors. He’s not. It’s about God’s undeserved mercy.

Summer Book List

o One Thousand Gifts – Ann Voskamp
o Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
o Shakespeare: the Complete Works – William Shakespeare
o Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild – Mary A Kassian
o Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
o The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
o Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
o Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
o Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor
o Bonhoeffer: Pastor Martyr, Prophet, Spy – Eric Metaxas
o Martin Luther: A Life – Martin Marty
o How Should We Then Life – Francis Schaeffer
o The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
o Every P.G. Wodehouse book in the Jax library system (if I have time)

Job Ideas So Far

o Starbucks Barista
o Office Secretary
o Dog Walker
o Barnes and Noble
o Bank Teller
o Nanny
o Flight attendant
o Cruise Ship employee
o Book Editor
o Au pair
o Fabulously Wealthy Person’s Personal Assistant/Secretary
o Dragon Slayer’s Assistant