Be Encouraged

 Good Day.  Saturdays around here we try to make a fun breakfast.  Today was Swedish Pancakes.  At least that was what we called them when I was a kid.  Really they are crepes.  It is one of Danika's favorite breakfast and she is my morning girls on Saturdays.  During the week she has a hard time getting up but every Saturday she is up and going and the rest of the house is silent.  Except of course for Isabella.  So Danika will go get Isabella.  Quite a blessing for me.  Our recipe is

Swedish Pancakes
3 eggs beaten
1/2 tsp salt add
1 Tblsp sugar add
3/4 cup flour add
1 1/4 cup milk add
1/4 cup oil add (we substituted applesauce for oil today and they came out great)
beat till slightly lumpy, pour, and cook like pancakes, very slim.  butter, top with jelly, roll up.

We have used various fillings like, powder sugar and lemon juice, canned apples with syrup, and for a dessert filled with bananas and drizzled chocolate sauce over.   When you use applesauce instead of oil be sure and keeps cooking surface buttered or sprayed.  We double the recipe for our family.

batter almost used up.

cooking

finished product

satisfied costumer

 Have you ever turned something over to God and thought you knew what the outcome would be but it didn't go as you had hoped.  I think it is very easy to get discouraged.  Thankfully God has given us His Word.   May I encourage you as I encourage myself.  Galations 6:9 says And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.   Psalms 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.  Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.  Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.   In our Bright Lights group we love to sing a song by the Wissmans.  It is called "I am Your Shield."  It is such an encouraging song.  The girls love to sing it.  We have decided to perform it for a rest home and then at a variety show at church for a girls ministry fund raiser.  The girls sing it so lovely and are hoping to be able to perform it with guitars and piano.  I have also started a new project for the fund raiser.  It is a new afghan.  I am really enjoying the pattern.  Here is a picture of it now and I will have to post a picture when it is finished.  Be of Good cheer, the Lord your God is with you.
Alicia

my new project