Eden’s Creamy Tomato Soup

Ah, my mouth is still dancin’! I cooked up a batch last evening, over a little campfire in the grill at the park. For those of you who don’t have the specs on the soup, I’m posting the recipe.

1 10.75 oz. can Campbell’s condensed Tomato Soup

1 5 fluid oz. can evaporated milk

3 Heaping Tablespoons (Soup spoons) Popeye Canned Leaf Spinach

Pour the tomato soup into a saucepan. Then, pour the evaporated milk into the empty soup can. Fill the rest of the way water. Add this to the soup in the saucepan, and stir to blend well. Add the Spinach and stir well to blend. Heat on medium high heat until it begins to simmer and you see steam. YUM!

I enjoyed this with Grilled Cheese sandwiches made with Great Grains Multi-Grain bread.

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Can’t Help But Tremble

Today’s message comes to us from Psalm 114. It’s a short one, but a great reminder of God’s power, love, and sovereignty.

“When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.” (ESV)

As I’m writing this, I’m thinking of my morning coffee in the park today. Some of the birds were following one another around and squawking, holding their beaks open, and wanting to be fed by the other. At first, I kind of laughed, and said, “Mama says you’re old enough to feed yourself now.” But then, I remembered those times when my husband would feed me a bite of his meal, or vice versa. Feeding one another is a sign of affection between couples, and family members. The impact of that truth, that family relationships are also that emotional and tender, even among birds, caused that sort of trembling within me. The presence of God, of His character, His traits, is in every living thing. I think we all too often miss those awesome moments of the revelation of God in the world around us because we don’t prepare our hearts to see Him there. I know that every time He reveals Himself to me this way, I cannot help but tremble.

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Saturday Silly – July 18, 2020

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Today’s message from God Calling – A.J. Russell, bids us to walk humbly with our God…which had me reminiscing about a little reminder God gave me about that.

I’d spent a few hours in the park that day. I needed to use the restroom before I left, so I did. As there were no paper seat protectors, I took some toilet paper and laid it on the toilet seat. I was more than a little disgruntled. I thought to myself, “Now why can’t they budget to provide the seat covers in the park restrooms?” I finished by business, but, as I got up, I lost the toilet paper that I’d put on the seat. It wasn’t there. I finally figured it just fell into the toilet. I flushed the toilet and headed out of the stall.

Now, there’s an apartment complex adjacent to the park. As I was strolling by on my way “home,” this nice little lady pointed out to me that I had toilet paper hanging out of the back of my shorts. It’s a good thing stuff like that makes me laugh. And, laugh I did. See; and some of you think God lets me get away with stuff. LOL

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The Other Version

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So, I there I was, in the ladies room at the courthouse, when I heard this lady singing, what I thought, at first, was Blessed Assurance. But she sang, “Triple insurance, the Countach is mine…I’m a rich woman, because you crossed the line…I got your mansion, the boat, and the car…Oh, thank you, Jesus, it’s been a good day so far…” I almost laughed out loud, but I managed not too.

I don’t think she knew I was in there, because she went on to pray. “Thank you, Lord, for blessing me so richly today. But, Lord, when you said blessings would overtake me, I sure didn’t think you meant that guy would almost run right over the top of me in that intersection. I’m just glad I had the car in park, or I might have rear ended someone too. I almost choked on my handbag! It was the only thing I could find to stuff in my mouth, so she wouldn’t hear me laughing. OMG!!!!!

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Saturday Silly – August 16, 2019

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I was doing some reminiscing about Montana the other day. I had been checking out the Wolf and Bear Center up by Yellowstone Park. I love the wildlife and wide open spaces in Montana. One of my loves as a teenager there was a Native American boy. I loved his sense of humor most. Most Montanans have a pretty good sense of humor…and they love to tell those “Big as the Big Sky” stories.

One beautiful Saturday morning, He and I headed out to a little butte just outside of the reservation. His grandma and grandpa lived on the reservation. We were going to spend the morning exploring, and then have a nice picnic lunch. After lunch, he said he’d promised to send a smoke signal message to his grandpa, at home. He built a fire, took a blanket out of the back of the truck, and sent some smoke signals up. Then he asked me if I would like to learn some smoke signals! “Won’t that be fun,” he asked. I thought that was awesome. I thought anything he did was awesome. He gave me the blanket, and said, “Okay, you’re going to signal the word, “butte.” Then Grandpa will know where we’re at.” Then he said, “Just kind of swoop it down, and sweep it slowly over the fire. That’s “butte.” I did as he told me to. He said, “Hmm, I don’t think you got it quite right, honey. You swept too fast. Try again.” Again, I swooped and swept-slowly, of course. “No,” said he. “This time, swoop just a little bit slower. But the sweep was good there.” Again, I swooped-slowly, and swept. Right about that time, we heard sirens. Up the hill came this little fire engine. I thought, “Oh no, we’re in trouble for having a fire up here.” The fire truck stopped and a couple of Native American firemen got out. “What’s the trouble,” one asked? “there’s no trouble”, I said. “I was just learning smoke signals. I signaled “butte” to tell my boyfriend’s grandpa where we’re at.” “No,” said the fireman. “You signaled, “My butt’s on fire!” Some of those Native American boys are real pranksters! Those firemen were his cousins. I used to be soooo gullible! That was my “Big as the Big Sky” story.

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Saturday Silly – July 27, 2019

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I apologize this didn’t make it up at midnight. I was feeling pretty under the weather yesterday, and took the day off. At any rate. Saturday’s here…Thank you, Lord, for another week that you’ve walked with me.

I was on my way from breakfast this morning, and ran into a friend of mine. He preaches on the streets; you may have spotted him near the freeway exits and on-ramps. Anyway, he asked me if I knew how many books in the Bible start with the letter J. I hadn’t had my coffee yet. I have to laugh; I came up with two, and was at a loss for the rest. You see, I ‘m the kind of person that reads the Word, and knows the Word, but I’ll be hanged if I can remember what book, chapter, and verse I read that Word in. It’s all the same to me-God’s Word. Whenever I do my Bible studies and posts, I have to look them up to be sure I’ve got their placements right.

Anyway, I made my way to the park behind the library, and was having my coffee, and thinking about my next Bible study: Your Glory. “You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor” This is the verse that came to me. For the life of me, I could not remember where, in the Bible, I read it. This thought came to me: “coffee.” I thought, “What?” “Coffee,” it came again. OH! HEBREWS! I’m still laughing!

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Saturday Silly – April 27, 2019

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Today’s message from God Calling – A.J. Russell, is about feeling the presence of the Lord with us. I was sitting in the park this morning, enjoying the sunshine and warm weather. I had one of those mockingbird encounters. I’m pretty sure that was Jesus’ way of saying good morning to me.

He (the bird; not Jesus) started out just chattering at me. Then there was, “Good morning.” I was just about to eat a croissant when he chirped something like, “ready?” I laughed at him and asked, “are you hungry?” He didn’t answer, but he did come down out of the tree. Then, he made the rounds under all the empty picnic tables. There was a man sitting at one table, with his head resting on his arms. The little mockingbird went back up into his tree, which was just beside that table. Then I heard what sounded like an alarm going off. It was the bird. I said, “are you an alarm clock?” I laughed when the little man sat up and was looking around. The next sound that little mockingbird made was like a truck backing up…”beep, beep, beep,” he twittered. It made my day, but I thought, if I see that little bird moon-walking on that tree limb right now…” See there, Jesus is a very entertaining Lord. I could almost hear Him up there giggling at us. And, I’m sure grateful that He’s the ringmaster in this circus called life.

Love you from Cafe du Mondieu Copyright by Marina Morrison (aka) Eden Stillwater, April 26, 2019, 10:31 a.m.