Tough day?
Hard day to be kind?
Hard day to be civil, polite, caring?

Do not try to find the mysteries of the world.
Learn to know Me more and more.
And in the knowledge you will have all the answers you need here.
All your answers will be in Me.
Know no theology, know Me     -God Calling.

Are you or your spouse on overload???

Your hand shall lead me,
and Your right hand shall hold me.   Psalm 139:10

The life radiant is that transfiguration of the ordinary daily events and circumstances which lifts them to the spiritual plane and sees them as the signs and the indications of the divine leading.

Some days are just frustrating, Lord!
Please help us to support each other, not add to each other's overload.
Stress is inevitable, help us to become sensitive to overloads in ourselves and our partners,
for  things that cause overload, too little money, kids, privacy....
Help us to address this overload in our self and our spouse.
Give us understanding, empathy, confession and forgiveness.
Help us to protect ourselves and our spouses from highly stressful feelings and times.
Help us to insist and support our partners need for healthy escapes once in a while.
Help us to have prayer time.
Sensitize us to our partners and our warning signs of overload.
Bring us lovingly alongside each other to help.

Lord, I know we are all self centered.
Please help us to become more God centred.

Easy, Fast Frozen Cake, Olaf, and the Ice Palace for a Frozen Party

So,
You need a quick, easy Frozen Party Cake and Display!

Super easy:

So here is the secret!!
No secret at all!!

If you are on a time crunch and a budget:

You can decorate, but you don't have time or money to get the ingredients and make the cake!?

Buy a $24.95 plain sheet cake from Walmart.

Buy an $11.95 cake topper from Ebay.

Simple,

now add your own decorations and touches:

Sugar Ice which takes 6 minutes to make!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHdJR6DuXY

Make the ICE more than one color blue for better visual effect!

Next make a double batch of Rice Krispies treats.

Easy to find this recipe.

Shape it into Olaf.

Cover him with white chocolate bark,

and use some black colored fondant for his buttons.

Next make his head using a picture to guide you!

Shape his nose from orange colored chocolate bark.(make extras in case it breaks).

His tooth is made of chocolate bark as well.

His black mouth is made from fondant which you can easily apply over the modeling chocolate.

Use a potato and skewers as your modeling station.

I made his hair and arms out of modeling chocolate, 

twizzlers and pretzels.

Secured them with skewers or toothpicks.

Again, make extras in case one breaks!

I made extra rice kripies balls, dipped them in the chocolate and surrounded Olaf with 'snowballs'.

Add the blue ice candy as decorations!

 I put an Elsa ornament under a cake dome with blue ice candy and edible chocolate balls.

So tired tonight, Lord.

Thank You for Your many blessings.

Keep us close to You.

The Glory of the Lord is upon you when you reflect that glory in your lives,
when in love, patience, service, purity, 
whatever it may be, 
you reveal to the world a something of the father,
an assurance that you have been with Me.  God Calling.

How can you fear the future when it holds so much for you?
Set your sights, your affections on things above, and
not earthly things,
you will see how rich you are.

Thank you Lord that you take our weaknesses and make us stronger.

Everyone has their own opinions and for their own reasons.
Give thanks when you notice some one has done something good
without regard to whether you think they should have done it anyway!

Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord.   Matthew 25:21

Duty faithfully done for Me,
does mean entrance into a life of joy.
The world may never see it,
the humble, patienct, and quiet service,
but I see it and My reward is not earth's fame, wealth or earth's pleasures,
but the JOY DIVINE.
All real contact with Me brings Joy. -God Calling

Lord help us to support our spouses in learning how to be intimate friends.
Help us to remember that the more someone puts us down,
the less we try to be close.
Help us to love our spouse deeply,
proclaiming that love through our actions each day.
Help us to support each other on the journey of intimacy!

Feelings are not a measurement of your love.

Fear not and do not let your hearts be troubled.  John 14:1
Union is power.
Share and bear each others burdens.

He who leads us, follows us.
Alpha and omega.
He who begins, finishes.
He who leads us, follows us to deal in love with our poor attempts.
He gathers up the things we have dropped - our fallen resolutions, our mistakes.
He makes His blessed pardon to flow over our sins until they are utterly washed away.
And He turns to fight the enemy who would pursue after us, to destroy from behind. 
He is first, 
and He is last.
And we are gathered up in between,
as in great arms of eternal loving kindness.  - Amy Carmichael.

Feelings are not a measurement of your love.
Your daily actions and attitudes are.

Are you still hiding your talents in fear and anxiety?

Ever feel like that 'third' servant in the story of the servants entrusted by the Lord with talents?
You know the story in Matthew 25:21.
The story is about a master that goes on a journey and leaves varying amounts of talents with his servants.
The first two servants double the talents.
The third one hides them so they will remain safe.
The master was not happy with the third servant!

Sometimes I have felt like that....
The self protective, stagnant, fearful servant.
I am grateful that God can change my fears, anxieties and worries
and give me the grace to trust Him and His provision.

Lord, we lift up this busy day to You,
All the things we would like to get done even though we are exhausted.

Whenever man trusts wholly in Me,
and leaves to Me the choosing of the very day and hour,
then there is My miracle working power.
Trust in Me.
Have an endless faith in Me, and you will see and seeing you will have great joy and give Me the glory.  God Calling

"Not by power or might, but by My Spirit, says the Lord."

There is nothing that makes you feel quite so loved, warm and complete
as when God says, "thank you!"
Even if the world rejects you,
His word of affirmation is enough.
The Lord said to him,
"Well done good and faithful servant."  Matt. 25:21.