Dying to Live

Baked Oatmeal (The family's favorite vegetarian breakfast)
Mix:  1 cup oil (I like canola because it is high in Omega-3's and cooks well)
          1 and 1/2 cups of brown or raw sugar (use anything but refined)
          4 eggs
          2 tsp vanilla
          2 cups milk
Add all at once:
          6 cups quick oats
          2 tsp salt
          1 tsp cinnamon
          4 tsp baking powder
Optional:
          Sprinkle the top with walnuts, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc.  

Bake in a greased 9X13 pan for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.  We love to serve this with  peaches, brown sugar, and warm milk.


     "Death and rebirth are constant in the Bible.  We are to let go, turn away, renounce, confess, repent and leave behind the old ways.  When we cling with white knuckles to our sins and our hostility, we're like a tree that won't let its leaves go.  There can't be a spring if we're stuck in the fall.  That's how life works when you're dying to live. "
                                                                                       -Rob Bell

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.  
                                                                                       - 1 Peter 1:22-23

    Have you played with your kids lately?  I have noticed that my kids are growing up and starting to do there own thing.  This includes looking at peers and deciding what is "cool" and what is "not cool".  But you can help keep the "little" in your kids by playing with them.  Encourage arts and crafts such as making puppets,  coloring, or writing stories.  Create a skit  or a dance routine with them.  Think of a hobby that may interest them.  Playing with your kids helps you engage with your child and be creative yourself, so go play!