In My Life

Homemade yoghurt – nothing could be easier, and cheaper!

All you need is a thermometer, a carton of UHF milk, a 1litre glass jar with a lid, and a couple of tablespoons of bought yoghurt.

Heat the milk in a saucepan to 40C.  Pour it into the jar and add the bought yoghurt.  Stir well.  Replace the lid and wrap it all up in a whole newspaper.  I then put mine into an Esky and cover it with more newspaper or a towel, then the lid. Otherwise, you could place it somewhere warm.  Leave it for 12+ hours.  Voila – yoghurt. 

(If using fresh milk, bring it to the boil, remove from stove, allow it to cool down to 40C before adding the yoghurt starter.)

Quotable quotes from Augustine – an Algerian Christian (354-430AD).

I believe in order to understand.  I love in order to know.

Having eyes is not the same thing as looking, and looking is not the same as seeing.  The soul, therefore, needs three things: eyes which it can use aright, looking, and seeing.  But only healthy eyes can see, and faith restores the health of the eyes.

From These Days

Don’t confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them

Jackson Browne wrote these lyrics when he was just 16. They’ve stuck with me ever since I first heard them when I was just a bit older than that. Rather than failures, I would say failures and failings because they’re on-going.

A Prayer

Lord, help me to be aware and wise, not only to the sin crouching at my door, but also to the sin that’s still crouching inside of me.

I thank you that there’s no condemnation hanging over me for my sin, for you hung on the cross in my place. You’ve exhausted its penalty and broken its power.

How I long for the day when I’ll be rid of the very presence and the pull of sin! Amen. 

A creation observation

Have you ever counted the seeds inside a papaw?  I haven’t either, but it staggers me to see just how many there are – enough, I reckon, for an orchard of papaw trees and a bountiful harvest.

A precious moment

For weeks now my wife (who has dementia) has not been very responsive, but, yesterday, when I leaned her back in the wheelchair and kissed her upside down, on the forehead, and told her, “Glenys, I love you!” she laughed and said (in an aw-shucks kind of way), “Oh! Thank you!”

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