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Thanksgiving is coming up (or already done and over with) and perhaps you are already wondering what to do with that leftover turkey.  Tired of turkey sandwiches?  Here is a recipe I found that is great.  Try it, and enjoy that left over turkey J

Turkey Cheese and Rice Quiche Recipe:

Ingredients

3 cups cold cooked rice
1 cup shredded cheese
2 cups cold chopped cooked turkey
3 eggs
2 finely diced medium tomatoes
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup sliced scallions
1 tblsp chopped fresh basil
1/2 cup diced green pepper
Salt and pepper
Red pepper to taste

Method:

• Grease a flat casserole.
• Mix together all the ingredients except the cheese.
• Now top with shredded cheese
• Bake it in an oven, preheated at 375 F.

• Serve it hot.

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Those who call Thanksgiving “Turkey Day,” I suppose, take some such view as this: Unless we have Someone to thank and something to thank Him for, what’s the point of using a name that calls up pictures of religious people in funny hats and Indians bringing corn and squash?

Christians, I hope, focus on something other than a roasted bird. We do have Someone to thank and a long list of things to thank Him for, but sometimes we limit our thanksgiving merely to things that look good to us. As our faith in the character of God grows deeper we see that heavenly light is shed on everything–even on suffering–so that we are enabled to thank Him for things we would never have thought of before. The apostle Paul, for example, saw even suffering itself as a happiness (Colossians 1:24, NEB).

the greed of having. When “a mixed company of strangers” joined the Israelites, the people began to be greedy for better things (Numbers 11:4, NEB). God had given them exactly what they needed in the wilderness: manna. It was always enough, always fresh, always good (sounds good to me, anyway, “like butter-cakes”). But the people lusted for variety. These strangers put ideas into their heads. “There’s more to life than this stuff. Is this all you’ve got? You can have more. You gotta live a little!”

So the insistence to have it all took hold on God’s people and they began to wail, “all of them in their families at the opening of their tents.” There is no end to the spending, getting, having. We are insatiable consumers, dead set on competing, upgrading, showing off (“If you’ve got it, flaunt it”). We simply cannot bear to miss something others deem necessary. So the world ruins the peace and simplicity God would give us. Contentment with what He has chosen for us dissolves, along with godliness, while, instead of giving thanks, we lust and wail, teaching our children to lust and wail too. (Children of the jungle tribe I knew years ago did not complain because they had not been taught to.)

Lord, we give You thanks for all that You in Your mercy have given us to be and to do and to have. Deliver us, Lord, from all greed to be and to do and to have anything not in accord with Your holy purposes. Teach us to rest quietly in Your promise to supply, recognizing that if we don’t have it we don’t need it. Teach us to desire Your will–nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else. For Jesus’ sake. Amen.

Elisabeth Elliot
Keep A Quiet Heart

Numbers 11:4 Colossians 1:24 

“Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. 

Give thanks to him and bless his name.”  Psalm 100:4 NLT

I haven’t blogged as much as I would have liked, and I am definitly not going to win any prize for “bloggers month”.  But here is today’s blog.  Sometimes I leave my house at 9:30am (sometimes earlier)  and do not return until 10:00pm (sometimes later).  It has been this way especially for the last two weeks.  I’m not expecting things to change in that dept, too soon.  Thus it is hard to keep up on the “everyday blogging!”   

This week is the last week with our Pastor and wife, Don and Marta Patten before they move to Isreal. As you read this, please pray for Calvary Chapel Poltava, Ukraine as we will be in the midst of what I call “transition week”….transitioning from Don and Marta Patten to Erik and Tanya Bougie.  May we keep our eyes on Jesus and not on man during this transition. And may the Lord bless abundantly Don/Marta as they step out into new ministry in Jerusalem, and may He bless abundatly Erik and Tanya as they step into the role of Pastor, Pastor’s wife/worship leader.  

Lot’s going on, not much time to blog, but thankful that I have a place to put my prayers and thoughts.

“Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. Yet our Heavenly Father ‘daily loadeth us with benefits’ (Psalm 68:19). Think of some of the common things which are nevertheless wonderful:

“–the intricate, delicate mechanism of the lungs steadily and silently taking in fresh air eighteen to twenty times a minute;

“–the untiring heart, pumping great quantities of clean blood through the labyrinth of blood vessels;

“–the constant body temperature, normally varying less than one degree;

“–the atmospheric temperature, varying widely it is true, but never so much as to destroy human and animal life;

“–the orderly succession of day and night, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, so that, with few exceptions, man can make his plans accordingly;

“–the great variety of foods, from the farm, the field, the forest, and the sea, to suit our differing desires and physical needs;

“–the beauties of each day–the morning star and growing light of sunrise, the white clouds of afternoon, the soft tints of a peaceful sunset, and the glory of the starry heavens;

“–the symphony of early morning bird songs, ranging from the unmusical trill of the chipping sparrow to the lilting ecstasy of the goldfinch and the calm, rich, bell-like tones of the wood and hermit thrushes;

“–the refreshment that sleep brings;

“–the simple joys of home–the children’s laughter and whimsical remarks, happy times around the table, the love and understanding of husband and wife, and the harmony of voices raised together in praise to God.

“All these and many others come from the bountiful hand of Him ‘who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s’ (Psalm 103:4,5).

“‘It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness’ (Lamentations 3:22,23).

“‘It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High’ (Psalm 92:1).”

“Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten. Yet our Heavenly Father ‘daily loadeth us with benefits’ (Psalm 68:19). Think of some of the common things which are nevertheless wonderful:

“–the intricate, delicate mechanism of the lungs steadily and silently taking in fresh air eighteen to twenty times a minute;

“–the untiring heart, pumping great quantities of clean blood through the labyrinth of blood vessels;

“–the constant body temperature, normally varying less than one degree;

“–the atmospheric temperature, varying widely it is true, but never so much as to destroy human and animal life;

“–the orderly succession of day and night, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, so that, with few exceptions, man can make his plans accordingly;

“–the great variety of foods, from the farm, the field, the forest, and the sea, to suit our differing desires and physical needs;

“–the beauties of each day–the morning star and growing light of sunrise, the white clouds of afternoon, the soft tints of a peaceful sunset, and the glory of the starry heavens;

“–the symphony of early morning bird songs, ranging from the unmusical trill of the chipping sparrow to the lilting ecstasy of the goldfinch and the calm, rich, bell-like tones of the wood and hermit thrushes;

“–the refreshment that sleep brings;

“–the simple joys of home–the children’s laughter and whimsical remarks, happy times around the table, the love and understanding of husband and wife, and the harmony of voices raised together in praise to God.

“All these and many others come from the bountiful hand of Him ‘who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s’ (Psalm 103:4,5).

“‘It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness’ (Lamentations 3:22,23).

“‘It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High’ (Psalm 92:1).”

“Thanksgiving means thanking God for all the good gifts which He has given to us. One of the great dangers of life is that we should take things for granted just because they come to us regularly and every day.”  William Barclay