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Bonjour!
Today’s Table Traveller recipe was inspired by the movie Ratatouille and from when I ate Ratatouille on our holiday in Paris. I wanted to eat it since I’d seen the movie, and be able to say I’d had it! We had lunch on our first day in Paris in a little cafe beside Notre Dame. We didn’t take a photo of it but I really loved it so Mum and I made it today.
Once upon a time a little 9 year old girl folded her heart full of hope into a tiny piece of paper with her name written on it, to go into a draw for the most desired prize she’d ever heard of. With every fold, her heart was pleading ‘please, please’ to be one of two from the class able to travel with the relief teacher to visit their much adored year 3 teacher at the hospital with her brand new baby.
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Recognising a desire to dig deeper into the Bible is already a response to His call… it’s an awareness that there is treasure waiting to be found… Life waiting to be breathed in… a ‘deep calls to deep’ response taking form. Beautiful.
Continue reading “Approaching the Bible 2 – digging in”
Hallo!
It’s been a while since our last Table Trip but now the holidays are over we’re back into it!
Today we made Olliebollen which is a type of Dutch donut but we thought they tasted pretty much like normal donuts. We decided to make them because of a photo that friend of ours posted when they were in the Netherlands on holiday and we thought they looked pretty good.
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Over the years as different issues have arisen, I’ve sought out different counsellors to help work some things through. Why? because it’s sensible when you’ve come to the end of what you know, to get outside input… sometimes life throws curving curling issues at you – and sometimes several at once.
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Sometimes people put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4 – but what they don’t realise is the digits they added were not the correct ones in play. If you need to add 2 bananas to 2 bananas because you see 2 bananas and 2 bananas on your kitchen bench – that is great. But if you are analysing someone elses life and assume what you see is a 2 and what you’ve read or heard causes that problem is a 2 you likely don’t know that your equation is a full size blackboard covered in chalk short of accurate information.
No this is not about someone passing judgement on me and mine – but I can say it because I’ve experienced the pain of that. And I’ve done it. And am very ashamed.
We all just need to stop it.
This has been a VSP 🙂
There is something about being with someone who understands. Someone who’s been through that same thing you have. There is a look that passes between two people who’ve walked the same thing – horrific to hilarious or anything in between – that no words can bring depth to. It is already known through and through.
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A favourite moment in my memory was a day two beaming toddlers stood in front of me offering up a bunch each of yellow sour grass flowers. One bunch of similar lengths neatly held by the elder of the two. The other clutched in a tiny little fist complete with roots dangling from some of the ends. Their gifts were held up to me with certainty of welcome, surety of my delight.
There’s a massive difference between gifts of love and gifts of duty.
God is not interested in our pride based offerings. Those given to impress or those given to manipulate or those given for compulsion or tradition sake. He wants our heart. And He wants us to be sure of His welcome no matter the nature of the gift. He receives with delight.
This has been a VSP 🙂
I’ve never considered myself our kids entertainment agent but having a small person without in-house playmates is very different to to previous crew of 6 who always had someone to play or hang out with. The idea of this chart is to help Miss T stay busy through the holidays, not rely on media, have a storehouse of ideas, keep experimenting and have fun in a way I’ve semi-planned for her – though she still has many many choices.
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This is my own piece of Narnian treasure. Found on the ground beneath a London lamppost. It sits by our bed as a reminder of a moment… a gift… an incredible time… priceless precious people… and as a symbol of mystery and possibility and wonder.
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