last night the beautiful Val and Monkman and myself went to a homeless memorial service in town where a bunch of different organisations who work with homeless people, such as project home where will [who runs our alternative seminary classes] works to specifically remember those homeless or previously homeless people who had died in the last year – more than fifty names were read out at one part of the service which took place outside [...]
two nights ago val got a call from a guy from a local church who told her that some homeless people [who had been evicted along with the 'Occupy Philly' people this week] had moved under a nearby bridge and would we the Simple Way be wanting to do anything about it – i chatted to him and got the details and told him i would try go that evening… something more prioritised came up [...]
and coffee... met some friends for coffee at the BP to celebrate the end of the week which has been interesting - quite a stressful time in terms of packing up the house and finishing off transcription work and trying to organise visas and a bunch of other stuff but i think that's cool in a way - we don't get to always choose when life happens to us - and while this live below [...]
day 4 of the live below the line saw a bit of a stodgy jungle oats breakfast [not enough water, oops] which was microwaved and very easy to make... bit of margarine type substance to give it some flavour... lunch was leftover soup/stew val made the other day - very tasty and yum cos of all the good veg in it... then supper was REALLY nice - roasted veg:sweet potato, carrots and leftover butternut and [...]
and we're still alive, and muchly so... i was in charge of supper duty and overestimated the amount of noodles we needed so we have a bunch of it left for tomorrow - green beans and a couple of carrots and two chopped up prok sausages [have 8 of those for the week visiting 4 different meals as our week's meat, flip] and half an onion and half a packet of macaroni - and with [...]
so today was a breakfast of 50g Jungle Oats each [slept over at my folks house and they had 50g sachets so less than the 150g between us we were meant to, but was enough] for breakfast [little bit of butter, no sugar, sigh] then for lunch we feasted on a "soup" the beautiful val made altho it was more a stew than a soup with lentils, potato and butternut in and we had that [...]
so this morning we had a third of a 500g portion of Jungle Oats between us with butter, no sugar [i whined!] and then for lunch we had two pieces of toast and a quarter of an avo each and then for supper we had two pieces of toast and an avo each [menu changed a little bit in terms of what's on what day cos we came thru to cape town so had to [...]
i am really enjoying the site common prayer which gives a prayers (or prayers) and sometimes a brief uplifting story - i struggle to spend much time in prayer myself day to day in terms of just putting time aside to really dive into God, but i have found this site helpful just to help direct my prayer times or get me started or focus more... i really enjoyed today's story... Marcella of Rome (325 – 410) [...]
my beautiful wife val just wrote this blog and it's been stuff that is on my mind and heart a lot these last few years and she pretty much nails it: check out her blog titled "on immoral wealth"