“I don’t feel like it.”     
 

                                 “You hurt my feelings.”    


                                              
                                                              “God feels so far away.”

Feelings play a large role in our lives. They can be responsible for everything from who we marry to whether we do the dishes or not before we go to bed. According to Hollywood, the way to be happy is to “follow your heart.”  Does that really work?

"If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy." 
                                                                       -Corrie Ten Boom

This is an easy to prepare meal that makes PLENTY and freezes well :)

Mom's Homemade Chili

"We labor under the false assumption that if we live perfectly everybody will accept us, while there was One who lived His life perfectly, and everybody rejected Him. "                                                                       - Neil T. Anderson

Peace. What a lovely word. Take a deeeeeeep breath and just sit there for a moment and imagine what it would feel like to have complete and total peace…not to be in a rush…not to have regrets…to just sit there, and be…. and to be at rest, both physically, and deep in your soul.

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Previously posted on Embracing Beauty at http://embracingbeauty.com/2012/03/06/peace/ 

WARNING: Addictive! Even for non-butterscotch-lovers :)

Butterscotch Delight

Ingredients:
1 ½ sticks butter or margarine, softened
1 ½ cups self-rising flour
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1 large container whipped cream (16 oz)
2 small packages instant butterscotch pudding (1 oz each)
3 cups milk

Mix by hand the following: softened butter, flour, and  1 ¼ cups of pecans in bowl. (Be sure to leave out ¼ cup of the pecans for the topping). Flatten mixture by hand into 13x9 baking pan. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Allow to cool fully.

Next, mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and half (8 oz) of the cool whip together in a large bowl with a beater. Spread this onto the cooled crust.

Then mix 2 small packages of butterscotch pudding with 3 cups of milk until it begins to thicken. Spread on top of previous mixture.