bake apple

Oh! No! It looks easy and yummy, one more recipe that I have to try hard to find time to try it myself.

Baked Bloomin’ Apples

http://tiphero.com/baked-bloomin-apples/

Ingredients:

– 2 Apples (I love Honeycrisp’s)
– 4 Caramels
– 1 TSP Cinamon
– 3 TBS Brown Sugar
– 2 TBS Butter
– 1 TBS Flour

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Cut off the top 1/4 of an apple

3. With a melon baller or spoon scoop out the center/seeds but DO NOT grow through the whole apple like you would with an apple corer.

4. With a small paring knife make two deep circular cuts around the center apple. Next flip the apple over and cut slits through the side to the center, and repeat these cuts around the entire apple.

5. Put apples in a baking safe dish or pan. Place 2 caramels in the cavity of each apple.

6. Heat butter and brown sugar in the microwave for 30 second, stir and pop back in microwave for an extra 15 seconds. Remove from microwave and add in flour and cinnamon.

7. Bake in oven at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes. If apples still feel hard try baking for additional 5-15 mins.

8. Remove apples from oven and place on plate or bowl. I love to pair this with Vanilla ice cream.

How to Bake Apples at Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwKt0foWLwo

coworker 3

The other day right after the mission complete, for get to connect with this coworker that we are dying to know how is she doing.

I seem to hear a voice say to me, "Alice! You have a beautiful heart." and I reply, "Oh! How about my appearance, is that ugly?" then immediately, I heard the reply again, “You are beautiful inside and out."

important decision 2

Actually, one of the brother's sharing at the meeting got me a big thinking.

It’s a wake up call for this pastor thing, what are we focus on, our kids' benefits only.

Often, we heard parents say, we are here, because the kids and their pastor really care for them, other time we heard, again, the parents say, the pastor didn't take good care of my kids, people pointing fingers at each other. They being putting all responsibilities to the pastors, the church, I know some of the parents, they don't even attend church worship regularly or event or giving out any helping hands when the church need it.

A lady speaks out at the meeting, who I known her for over 10 years, says how this pastor take good care for her kid, how appreciate she is, at same time she critics on all other pastors of our church and the fellowships that she ever attended, none of them care about her at all, which are completely not true. Or I should ask her; have you ever care of others?

Pastoring is not a one man's job; they are not the free babysitters with full responsibilities.

We are a one, but are we now?

All in all, discipleship is important and crucial to run. Is this youth pastor accomplished or tries hard enough or does he totally agree on this idea in those young fellows or is it too tough for him to carry out among those young sheep?

Everyone is a leader in a way, even you are not the leader of the whole universe, a country, a company, or in your own family, you are very unique and important, you are the leader of yourself and our lord is the highest marshal.

I pray to Lord, for each and everyone whoever are involved in making decision and this particularly pastor might need to make some changes of his thoughts or the way of pastoring in order to accomplish God's heart.

I just heard that this pastor has a car accident an hour ago, pray and pray for him!

important decision 1

An important decision been made about discontinue contracting a youth pastor of our church and a lot of different voices and opinions from the parents and the kids. 

Normally, this kind of major decisions made by group of elders and senior pastor, I guess this is the policy of all the churches.

In this special case, we held meetings for junior high, high school kids and parents separately for explaining why, how, when and the like regarding for this decision is made.

Everyone gives their thoughts about this pastor, how is he caring those young, asking questions to the senior.

This meeting for parents last for over 2 hours.

The senior and elders decided to have an emergency meeting to re-consider about this issue.

After hearing so many different sayings, here are my thoughts about this case.

Set aside to judge whether the elders and senior make the right decision.

First, before senior and elders made this so called final decision, do they think about what the impacts on the youth minister and the parents?

Do they already have a backup plan, a candidate for replacing this youth's pastor's position and works, is he or she will be at least has the same qualifications as him or even better than his ministering?

If not how is the church going to make up for this big gap in between.

Secondary, do they provide fully help for this youth pastor in improving the performances. And for this kind of important evaluation, why are the constellations only held between senior pastor and this youth pastor only, should it include a third impartial person, like the head of the elders or another pastor who also work and knows this youth pastor well!?

And why when they make the decision, the other senior English speaking pastor is not there!?

Now that, as they decide to held emergency meeting to re-making the decision. If, that’s say if they change their decision, ok! We’ll give this youth pastor a second chance, will this youth pastor say yes! I’ll stay!?

Finally, if this youth pastor does leave the job and another youth pastor come to take the job, what if he or she is worse than his performances!? I really wonder what will happen next, in this case!?

Leave the finally decision and result to the Lord, oh! Lord, the holly spirit, please comes, please come to help, You are the decision maker, and You are the helping hands. Let all the burdens and worries onto You.

conversation between 2 women

The other day I overhead a conversation between 2 women, that's say women A & B.
Women A: Hey! B, look at this woman, so ugly, no wonder, she has no husband. (I’m guessing that she is pointing at some actor or someone used to be an actor or whatnot.)

And as my understanding that this woman A, herself, is a single mom, so far still is single.

That woman that woman A mention about, maybe in regular human's eyes and standard is not quite pretty, but somehow I believe, she, at least has a beautiful heart.

The woman A, I’ll say, she’s ugly from inside and out, God knows.

支氣管 Bronchus

台語有一句話說，「你皮在癢啊!?」，我最近倒是常感覺到，歐喔！我的皮又在冷了」。

怎麼說呢，數年前因為疏忽，感冒和咳嗽很久，沒有好好的醫治，當時，自以為年輕身體強壯可恢復快速，結果造成氣管、支氣管、以致於細支氣管都非常的脆弱，只要天氣一涼，風一吹，特別是吹到冷氣或者吃了冰涼的東西或者刺激性的食物或者是話講的太多就開始咳嗽不斷，讓我感到非常的苦惱。

後來才慢慢覺醒，開始注意自己身體的調理和開始參加了讚美操的運動練習，漸漸的我的氣管問題才了明顯的改善。

但最近由於工作和家庭兩頭忙，常常沒有時間去做讚美操的運動，又加上最近因為天氣炎熱，我開始不忌口，只覺得太熱了，受不了了，所以，吃和喝了很多冰冷的東西，又加上在辦公室一天數小時的吹冷氣，我敏感的氣管 - 咳嗽又復發了。

人真是非常軟弱，明知對自己好的事卻不去做，對自己不好、不該做的事，卻不能節制，最終受害的還是自己。

主啊！求祢幫助我，求祢用你的聖靈緊緊地把我保抱在你的懷裡，祢是我的手，祢是我的腳，祢是我的心思意念，祢是我的一切，幫助我，幫助我作對的事，禱告奉告主耶穌基督的名來求，阿們！

對了！我該去做讚美操的運動了。下次再聊。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt2jiE3wPXQ

There’s a saying in Taiwanese, "Your skin is itch ah!?", that means that you are not behave and someone is going to scold you, recently, I often feel, "Oh! No! I feel my skin is cold."

Why do I say that? A few years ago because of my negligence, my cold and coughing last for a long time, I didn’t even take good care of myself at that time, I thought, young as I, was physically strong and can recovery quickly. The result, my trachea, bronchi, bronchioles become so very weak and vulnerable, and later, once the weather change into cool, wind blows, especially the air-conditioning or eat something cold or irritating food or talk for some time then I’ll  cough hard and constantly, this, makes me feel very depressed.

Then slowly I learn, and begin paying attention to my own health and begin participating in the praise dance exercises regularly and gradually my bronchial problem improves significantly.

However, lately I’m so busy with work and kids, often, do not have time to do the praise dance exercise, plus the hot weather presently, I start to eat and drink a lot of cold food at will to get away from the heat and cool myself down, and hours of air-conditioning in the office each day, my sensitive trachea – coughing problem, reoccur again.

Humans are really very powerless beings, knowing it’s a proper thing to do but fail to, and for things is not right to do but can not control ourselves, eventually, we pay the price for the consequences unwilling.

Oh! Lord! please help me, Thy Holy Spirit protect me and embrace me tightly, You are my hands, You are my feet, You are my mind and heart, You are my everything, help me to do what I should do, pray in Jesus’ name. Amen!

Oh! Yes! Go to go! It’s my praise dance exercise time. Talk to you soon.

noodle & eggs

Yap! again, our traditional birthday meal and it's a must.
Today i almost forgot about the birthday of my younger one until my older one mention about it .
Good thing is, it is way before day's end furthermore, I've gotten a big pot of ribs and Chinese cabbages, so i cook the noodles and eggs in it, yum!

A new thought has just come into my mind, a homemade smoothie ( banana, strawberries and milk are a must have ingredients for it), will be added onto this traditional B-day meal.