This weekend I opened up one of my birthday presents that I have been hoarding since June. It was just as delicious and incredible as I dreamed it would be. Anna gave me two jars of Grotto's pasta/pizza sauce and I have not wanted to open them (because then they would be gone). I finally convinced myself to open a jar telling myself that I still would have one jar left to look forward to. The sauce was supposed to make it on to the pizza, which it did, but I was also eating the sauce out of the jar with a spoon last night while I waited for Jared to come home from the library. Is that bad? Even though Grotto Pizza doesn't use mozzarella cheese, I was dunking chunks of that into the sauce as well. I love that everything on the ingredient list is something that I recognize. I love the flavor. It is wonderful. I just need to figure out their pizza crust flavor and I will be set for life (well, maybe a pizza oven and a few other things would be helpful...).
I am planning on making spaghetti with the extra sauce this weekend (if I don't eat it all with a spoon before then). We are having pizza again tonight. :) Yay!
I might try to make my deep dish pizza again soon because it turned out incredible last time. I loved the crunchy, crispy edges.
Today during lunch I ran/drove over to Hancock Fabric (were the grumpy people work) and bought needles for my sewing machine. After fighting with it for a long time last night, I read the instruction manual because I had tried everything I could think of and my machine was still skipping stitches. This was taking place at 10:30 last night. It reminded me of life. For the most part I try to solve problems on my own, but if I just look at the instructions it would be so much easier. :) God knows how to solve every problem and has blessed us with his word to read. I just have to do it. In the end, I think I figured out the problem (thank you frequently asked questions). I read the whole instructions book last night. I have never done that before. I learned a lot. Tonight my sewing machine will be taken care of in ways that it has not been ever taken care of. It is going to be oiled, shined, and cleaned out. I do clean it out, but tonight I am going to really clean it out. How am I expecting it to keep working if I don't take good care of it? Again, just like life, I need to take care of my relationship to God or life doesn't go as smoothly. My thread will keep skipping spots. :) In case you are curious, I was using the wrong size needle for quilting (hopefully). I will find out tonight when I give it another go.
Do you ever learn lessons from little things like a sewing machine?
Weeding. I hate it. But, in the garden(and Garden of Life), I am often made aware that, though weeding is painful-like extracting sin from our lives, it makes a healthy, stronger, beautiful plant. And it is the same in our spiritual lives/walk. We grow better, stronger, healthier in our walk with the Lord when we "weed" out/confess/repent from our sins. (No lessons from the sewing machine to me-I don't sew:-)
ReplyDeleteI am glad you enjoyed the sauce!
ReplyDelete