Breakfast Rolls

Now Playing: Vamo' a la calle - Carlos Baute

Experimenting in the kitchen leaves me wanting to create simple creations. Introducing... the breakfast roll!

• Rice paper
• Lettuce
• Scrambled eggs
• Red pepper
• Avocado
• Green onion
• Cooked sausage
• Homemade coleslaw

Personally, I did not think it required a sauce because the tartness and punch from the coleslaw blended well with the creaminess of the avocado and punch from green onions.

I kept trying to find a way to end this post with something profound, something to tie back to God, something more than just food. As I sought for the "perfect" connection, I realize how unauthentic it felt to seek for something that was originally not there. Perhaps the reason there has not been a connection to God is because I had spent a lot of my time looking at a screen rather than looking up. ha. silly me. 

Seek Him first,

Ahhh -me

IDK you yet

 Now Playing: Belovedness by Sarah Kroger

Do you ever do the the thing where you reframe a scenario to try to see things from a point of view that could be more impacting? I tend to do this for when I think of how my decisions would impact my children. Currently they live in a different nation... the imagination, but someday (God willing), they will be here. In the same realm, I realized that I do the same for my niece and nephew. I yearn to give them hope through my personal testimony. 

In a recent conversation with a friend, while talking about finances, I had asked how they got financial advice. They were pretty adamant of trusting the words of those they perceived to have their lives matching the given advice. It makes sense, right? While I think it is a bit challenging to fact check financial stability of others, I do believe that we can be very attentive to the lives that surround us for the better or worse. 

What I yearn to give the little ones: I yearn that they never question their worth, and if they ever do, that they remember their belovedness. I yearn that they never feel alone or unwanted. I yearn that they be equipped to beat the darkness of evil. I yearn that they love all they can and know the reason for doing so. I yearn that they gain the wisdom to see beyond the worldly distractions and keep their eyes on the prize. I yearn for them to know their cross in detail, and yet not despair but follow Jesus. I yearn for them to have their hearts be open to God, for with that, all graces can bestow on them. Faith, hope, and love. 

yours truly,

Ahhh-me

I can only imagine the magnitude of yearnings a mother has for their children. If this lens gives us so much tenderness to love on the little ones, I think it can help us extrapolate the yearn to love others better. That is, unless we have forgotten that we have all been children at some point.

Blue Dabadeee dabadaaa

Now Playing: Little Flower by Danielle Rose

"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."

-St. Mother Teresa

Today's blog covers Raynaud's phenomenon. I have found that a generic internet search was not really useful in practical info. Perhaps this helps someone else. Here is what I have learned:

• Finger gloves are not helpful. 
• Mittens work sometimes
• Warm mugs work better
• Body heat works best (i.e. sitting on top of hands)
• Attacks are not always related to outdoor weather
• It occurs in the summer
• It occurs indoors 
• The speed at which circulation is lost varies
• Rapid speeds tend occur while switching environments
• i.e going from the house to the car
• First warnings before an attack can be very cold hands
• Not all attacks have warnings
• Toes take longer than fingers to reestablish circulation
• Running helps get circulation, but 
• Takes ~20 minutes for the hands 
• Takes at~30 minutes for the toes
• The longer it remains white
• the stiffer fingers/toe become
• the more painful it gets
• Best advice: see a doctor 

Disclaimer: these are personal experiences with the disease. Seek professional attention. These are just my two cents :)

Happy Easter!

Amy

I'll Follow You

Happy Feast of the Annunciation! 

Now Playing: Follow You - Imagine Dragons

"A woman's love always determines the way a man loves: she is the silent educator of his virile powers."

-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

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Yellow Balloon

The other Washington

Now Playing: Yo Te Voy a Amar - N Sync

I remember when this song was released in 2000. Somehow, we had a cassette tape with the entire N Sync album. This band had touched my young heart and this song became an anthem to my longing desire; to be loved. Have you ever heard of the Litany of Humility? It is a prayer of deliverance to anything that may keep one from becoming Christ like, and to me, it is one of the most challenging prayers to mean. I wish I could explain it better, but all I can say, is that this prayer hurts my heart! 

"O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me Jesus.

From the desire of being loved. Deliver me Jesus

From the desire of being extolled. Deliver me Jesus

From the desire of being honored. Deliver me Jesus

....

That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

..."

Litany of Humility - Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val

Why is it wrong to desire to be loved? While I struggle to comprehend this, I can simply understand that there is truth to it. It was on a recent talk that I went to that open another whirl of questions for me, when Fr. Isaac let our class contemplate on the desires of the human heart. More specifically, how Adam desired Eve even before the fall. Perhaps I have forgotten most of what I had learned from theology of the body, but I question why Adam desired more if he had God. In simple terms, why did he desire a #2 when he already had his #1?

Switching subjects...

Throwback Thursday photos from a work trip to Mulkiteo. Sunny skies flying in, but cloudy for the most part. I wish to say I went hiking on the trails a bunch, but my fear of mountain lions prevented me from going far out. 

Love Never Fails

"God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours."

-Venerable Fulton Sheen (Book: Life of Christ)