Day 53 - Creation

I've been doing a lot of creating lately, with food of course.  Found a great cookbook called RAW which has (surprise) all raw salads and soups - and desserts!  Very tantalizing.  I am making some now, but will likely do more when fresh products are more abundant and not as costly.    I've also been creating a list of useful health products to supplement any lack in food supply. A wonderful product I can recommend is Positive Power Nutritionals Cell Power.  The 2 oz. bottle makes over 90 quarts of High Oxygen producing, pH balancing, High energy water.  A 16 oz. bottle of a similar pre-prepared water product costs over $2 or over 10 times the cost of using the drops in Cell Power.  If you try it, you might want to start with drinking 4 oz. morning and evening and increase amount after a few days to your comfort level as the mineral and enzyme addition to your diet can be cleansing at first.

We had a birthday party yesterday, as I wrote, and I was sent to the store after being in a location most of the afternoon and part of the evening with hardly nothing 'safe' to eat.  Regretfully I did not pack a lot either, and so overbought.  The freezer is now very full and happy :).  I bought boneless chicken breasts on sale (several packages of course) and they were still slightly frozen when I got home, making them perfect to cut in various shapes and portions.  Ken and I worked for almost an hour creating chicken tenders, fajita strips, stew, and cutlets and blanching the almost 2 foot tall bag of brocolli.

Creation is a happy feeling.  If I am too busy during the week to create something whether it be with words, food, or crafty material, I get what hubby calls creation-fever and am not fulfilled until something is 'done.'  I wonder if that is how God feels...

In Isaiah 43:15, God speaks "I am Adonai, your Holy One, the Borey (Bah-ray) - Creator - of Isra'el, your king."

God explains or introduces Himself as a creator; and since He made us in His image, it should be no surprise that I have a need to create. The feelings of frustration when something doesn't go right makes me wonder if God feels that way when He is trying to create some new dimension within me and (I) His material - resists, and just won't cooperate.  In Jeremiah 33:2 God also says that He 'formed the universe so as to keep directing it.'  His caretaking did not end with creation.  He continues to refine, perfect, guard, water, and tend His creation.  How blessed are we to have the Borey - the Creator - who shaped us before we were conceived, to continue caring enough to guide and shape this clay of His almighty imagination.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal, half-n-half with nectarine and strawberries

Lunch:  "Taco" salad - Romaine, tomatoes, 1/4 hamburger with cumin and salt. Topped with sour cream and chopped Roma tomato.
(Really - not a quarter-pound of hamburger, but a quarter of a hamburger. I could do this because I partially cooked it, then tossed it in the food processor, returned it to the pan to add spices and then put 3/4 of the meat on Ken's salad, and 1/4 on mine.  Just enough for the flavor:)

Dinner:  Pasta marinating in the oven all afternoon.  Cut up sausage sauteed with onion, garlic and Tenuta's Italian Seasoning. Drained chopped tomatoes and a huge package of spinach cut up and tossed in at the last minute to just brighten the spinach. Sausage mixture swirled with lemon-infused oil  and pasta and warmed in oven at low temperature until dinner makes the flavors marinate.  More tomato, spinach and sausage combination than pasta (about 3/4 cup) gives a satisfying but not over-full feeling.