The Little Points Publication #460 ...

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! Oh, what a GLORIOUS week of local weather now we have now had in Ohio. Temps have been throughout the 70s for a lot of days now! I’ve achieved my biggest to absorb as numerous it as potential with prolonged walks every afternoon.

I’ve been knowledgeable it’s a false spring and the temps are about to fall as soon as extra. So, it’s unlikely to be this warmth as soon as extra for a while. Nonetheless as prolonged the photo voltaic continues to shine, I’ll be grinning up at it and hoping the vegetation all survive the approaching chilly days.

IN THE KITCHEN THIS WEEK: Loaded with our favorite Mexican flavors; this Southwest Chicken Soup is barely spicy with chunks of tomatoes, corn, black beans, and tender hen. I want to excessive my bowl with a handful of shredded cheese and some tortilla strips.

Remaining evening time’s dinner was this totally loaded Chicken Potato Broccoli Casserole. It begins with fluffy mashed potatoes which will be blended with tender bites of broccoli and hen, then generously sprinkled with bacon and cheese. The result is a totally irresistible dinner.

Oven-roasted Cabbage with Balsamic Glaze is nothing in want of a crazy obsession. Try it and you will understand. I’ll be making it as soon as extra subsequent week. 

This Spinach Orzo Salad is filled with cranberries, creamy goat cheese, tender pasta, and a great deal of modern spinach tossed in a tangy sweet dressing. The salad is perhaps served immediately or saved throughout the fridge for 2-3 days – making this an superior make-ahead meal for lunch or dinner.

My son requested chili (as soon as extra), so I’ll be making a large batch of the easiest and tastiest chili for easy dinners this coming week as a result of the local weather cools off as soon as extra. 

Skip the conventional fried donuts and make these Apple Cider Donut Muffins! With a sugary coating paying homage to their namesake, these muffins present a pleasing twist on a beloved conventional.

Andes Mint Cookies are a soft-baked chocolate cookie loaded with Andes Mint objects and unfold with a further layer of mint goodness. They’re very good straight from the oven.

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are these bath salts. The eucalyptus and spearmint fragrance is gorgeous and the salts are the correct technique to relax on the end of the day. The muscle and rigidity discount is like nothing else I’ve tried. Along with this foaming bath, it appears like a spa experience every evening time.

What I’m LISTENING to: My children discovered some old-school DC Talk and it’s been going strong in my playlist this week. For the month of Lent this 12 months, I chosen to give up any media that isn’t faith-based, so it’s been pleasurable to re-discover some conventional Christian rock after I would like a break from conventional reward and worship music.

What I’m READING: The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This was not a simple be taught, however I found myself drawn once more to it each time I set it down. I accomplished the e-book convicted, grateful, and challenged.

“Costly grace is the gospel which ought to be sought repeatedly, the current which ought to be requested for, the door at which an individual ought to knock. Such grace is expensive on account of it calls us to watch, and it is grace on account of it calls us to watch Jesus Christ. It is costly on account of it costs an individual his life, and it is grace on account of it supplies an individual the one true life. It is costly on account of it condemns sin, and wonder on account of it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly on account of it value God the lifetime of his Son: “ye had been bought at a value,” and what has value God rather a lot cannot be low price for us. Above all, it is grace on account of God did not reckon his Son too costly a value to pay for our life, nevertheless delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.”

“Christian love attracts no distinction between one enemy and one different, moreover that the additional bitter our enemy’s hatred, the upper his need of affection. Be his enmity political or spiritual, he has nothing to anticipate from a follower of Jesus nevertheless unqualified love. In such love there could also be not inside discord between the personal explicit particular person and official functionality. In every we’re disciples of Christ, or we’re not Christians the least bit.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“As a result of this reality, since now we have now been justified by faith, now we have now peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him now we have now moreover obtained entry by faith into this grace throughout which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1-2 ESV

Wishing you a shocking week filled with little points that make you smile!

Mary