A Grace Place
We thought we would handle grief so well together, until the rubber hit the road. Then he wanted to talk. And I really didn’t. We weren’t coping well.
Discovering the four ways of coping under pressure gave us an understanding of how and why we respond differently in difficult times.
Dad’s favorite breakfast to cook for us kids was his German Pancakes. Dad’s German Pancakes are crepes brushed with lemon juice and dusted with cinnamon-sugar, and then rolled. My brothers would eat them with maple syrup, but I like to be different so I always went with (Mom’s homemade) strawberry jelly as a topping.
When my friend asked me if I had some ideas about how she could get a handle on all the great spiritual practices that she believed she should do, which she wanted to do, but which felt overwhelming to tackle as a whole, I thought of housecleaning. And then we came up with a brilliant plan!
The Bible doesn’t give us a lot of dating advice. If only Jesus had given his disciples a lesson on the shores of Galilee, telling them what to look for in a spouse, where to find that person, where to take them on a first date, and how not to get hurt!
But instead he gave us Charles Dickens!
This soup is comfort food at its best. And on a snowy Colorado evening (we got 7 inches of fluffy snow last night!) comfort food is exactly what we want!
I started making this soup when we lived in Barcelona, Spain eighteen years ago. It wasn’t snowy there, but this comforting soup still felt like home.
