Starrs In Denver: "Helpers" in the Kitchen

Saturday, September 02, 2006

"Helpers" in the Kitchen

It was Owen's day* and he was "helping" me with dinner preprations. The girls came in and they just HAD to help too! We had fun and they loved wearing the aprons.

~Rose
*We have a wipe-off calendar in the kitchen. I mark the kids initials on each day- H, O, E, so they know who's "day" it is. On your day, you get to get in/out of the car first, have the desired cup/bowl, seat, ect... If I need help cleaning something up or unloading the dishwasher, that kid has to help me as well. It has worked pretty well for our kids and even Emma gets it which helps us experience less whining :)

2 comments:

Starrs In Denver said...: I got the idea from my dear friend the LORD!; 10:50 PM
Paul and Kameron Morton said...: Ooooh, I LOVE this idea... and dinner looks good too! ;); 4:43 PM

Favorite Quotes From C.S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult." I really resonated with this one!

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!""

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Wednesday March 5, 2025

"Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation."-Psalm 35:3

What does this sweet prayer teach me? It shall be my evening's petition; but first let it yield me an instructive meditation. The text informs me first of all that David had his doubts; for why should he pray, "Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation," if he were not sometimes exercised with doubts and fears? Let me, then, be of good cheer, for I am not the only saint who has to complain of weakness of faith. If David doubted, I need not conclude that I am no Christian because I have doubts. The text reminds me that David was not content while he had doubts and fears, but he repaired at once to the mercy-seat to pray for assurance; for he valued it as much fine gold. I too must labour after an abiding sense of my acceptance in the Beloved, and must have no joy when His love is not shed abroad in my soul. When my Bridegroom is gone from me, my soul must and will fast. I learn also that David knew where to obtain full assurance. He went to his God in prayer, crying, "Say unto my soul I am thy salvation." I must be much alone with God if I would have a clear sense of Jesus' love. Let my prayers cease, and my eye of faith will grow dim. Much in prayer, much in heaven; slow in prayer, slow in progress. I notice that David would not be satisfied unless his assurance had a divine source. "Say unto my soul." Lord, do Thou say it ! Nothing short of a divine testimony in the soul will ever content the true Christian. Moreover, David could not rest unless his assurance had a vivid personality about it. "Say unto mysoul, I am thy salvation." Lord, if Thou shouldst say this to all the saints, it were nothing, unless Thou shouldst say it to me. Lord, I have sinned; I deserve not Thy smile; I scarcely dare to ask it; but oh! say to my soul, even to my soul, "I am thy salvation." Let me have a present, personal, infallible, indisputable sense that I am Thine, and that Thou art mine.

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Saturday, September 02, 2006

"Helpers" in the Kitchen

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