Cranberry Banana Smoothie 🙂

• 1 ripe banana
• 2 rounded Tablespoons yogurt
• 1 chunk of ginger root (about 1/2″)
• 1 big handful frozen cranberries
• 1 giant handful fresh greens
• 1/2 C grapefruit juice, water or coconut water

Whir on high until liquified

This is not a super sweet smoothie, but it will give you energy for the morning. Change/adjust ingredients to use what you have…that’s the fun of making your own smoothie.

Happy Saturday 🙂

There is no guilt, no shame in living today. Today is all we have.

God gave us today to live and breathe and plan for a good bright future for us and others.

The phrase – “So heavenly minded they’re of no earthly good.” is true. We’re not living in heaven, we’re on earth where God placed us. He said to “Live!” “Be fruitful!” “Multiply!” “Fill the earth!” with what we make and create from what He gave us to use.

There is no condemnation or guilt for enjoying and being happy in life today, making the best of our lives today. No more thinking it’s wrong that we should instead be thinking only about going to heaven. God had to address this with his people after Jesus was crucified. Everybody was quitting work, quitting life and sitting on their housetops waiting for Him to come back for them. God had to instruct them to get down from the housetops and get back to work; back to doing, living, providing, taking care of things – themselves, their families and others.

From the very beginning God has had work for us peoples to do. Find the work you like to do where you can excel, increase and help others, and have at it. Your work is needed, it matters.

Let’s see — what project shall I begin or continue right now so I can feel good about myself?

Today, I will….. 🙂

There are many thoughts flying around in the air – looking for someplace to land, take root and begin to grow – producing more of them.

Not every thought landing on you is your own. Many thoughts are tares, weeds sent to suck away nutrients from us (like a parasite ! YUK!) Their purpose is to prevent growth and good and gain. They want to consume all your valuable time.

How many, many times have we succumbed to these wrong thoughts, thinking we were the originator of the bad thoughts?? I have done so, far too many times!

Then we feel guilty and condemned that we’re a bad person, and we let the thought continue to grow for weeks, months, decades and thought patterns are formed to where we think, “This is who I am, This is who my family is, This is my lot in life”.

Only if we allow those thoughts to become one with us do we become what we think about (then ultimately talk about and do about).

Let’s see them for what they are and begin to earnestly reject any thought that tells to do bad, or that we are bad, or that we are no good, or worthless, or unneeded, or crazy, mixed up or stupid.

We were not created to be that way. We were created to be good and to do good and help others do good.

One of the best ways to reject these bad thoughts is to simply ‘change the channel’. Find something else to do to occupy your mind. Get busy with a new project and direct your thoughts towards making something. Go outside and take a walk, go to the gym, get out of the house and talk to others.

You have the power to refuse those thoughts. Use it!