Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Magnetic Menu!
I color coded my meals and used different symbols around the edges to quickly identify Beef, chicken and vegetarian.
A side note my printer did NOT LIKE magnetic paper. So I printed the templete on regular paper then used my glue stick to glue it to the magnetic paper. Also I could not find the magnetic paper at the office store. I found the magnetic paper in the most unlikely weirdest place!

At walmart in the craft department with the other magnets. It was packaged really weird. A 1" by 1" by 9" box. There are 3 sheets per box and it was $5.something. Much cheaper than the office stores prices!
I buy my food 2 weeks at a time. But am only showing 1 week on the fridge. So I am placing the other available meals below the menu. That way I can know what other meals are available if I can't make what is scheduled.
Beautiful Files...

For these fabulous step by step instructions for adorable file folders and the greatest menu ever!!! It's magnetized! So you can rearrange it mid-week if you have to move a meal to another slot! No more scribbling and erasing. And thank you for helping me use that creative part of my brain that has been very neglected!
First I did Like Kerflop did with Use, File and Act. So simple and so great. Then I made a file for my cousin Barbi's letters! And one for each of my children. That way when they bring me a picture they colored, great school paper, etc... It can be put into their own file for safe keeping!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A Challenge for you...
Spiritual Growth:Stewardship of your Body
You may have been hoping this subject wouldn't come up, but we're told in the Bible that how we manage our body affects our ministry and the quality of our life. The apostle Paul put it this way: "I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified." 1 Cor. 9:27
The goal in the physical realm is discipline, the self-control which is a gift of God's grace (Galatians 5:23). His Spirit in us gives us strength to resist temptation, to control our appetite rather than allowing it to control us, and to buffet our body into obedience.
Every time I ask woman who is enjoying an energetic life and ministry how she does it, I cringe a bit as she says the two predictable words- diet and exercise. If the goal is a quality of life filled with quality days of serving the Lord, attention to the body is key!
Please answer the following...
Spiritual Growth includes stewardship of your body-
Look at 1 Cor. 9:27 in your Bible.
How did Paul treat and view his body?
How can a failure to discipline your body affect the quality of your life?
We mentioned both diet and exercise as areas requiring discipline. Set a goal for each for the upcoming week.
Diet~
Exercise~
Scriptures to Ponder...
Look at 1 Cor. 9:27 in your Bible.
I really liked this verse and 26 also in other versions.
Living Bible
1 Cor. 9:26 and 27
So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I fight to win. I'm not just shadow-boxing or playing around.
Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to. Otherwise I fear that after enlisting others for the race, I myself might be declared unfit and ordered to stand aside
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Amplified Translation
1 Cor. 9:26-27
Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim) I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary.
But (like a boxer) I buffet my body (handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships) and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it. I myself should become unfit (not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit.