My favorite book of the moment, as some of you may know, is Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy With God in the Busyness of Life (Revised Edition with New Bible Study)
.It seems that it will be one of the most important books in my life, as it takes me from the lithargic state of "I do not know what this is all about" into an understanding of life, my life, and the ways to live it in a way that agrees with my spiritual needs and my busy schedule of the world.
Yesterday DH travelled to a nearby town to deliver a bed, so that left me some time to myself. While the kids were playing games on the American Girl website, I got to read this passage which rung quite a few bells and it made me think.
Because we were created for balance, we feel the difference in our souls when our lives tilt too far in one direction or another. The inbalance will show in our attitudes, our energy level, and in the way we interact with other people.
She then procedes by defining some signs that you may need more time in the Kitchen, i.e. in doing things and being of service, or in the Living Room, i.e. more time spent with God in prayer, meditation or reading.
I felt that I definitively fell in the category of Kitchen, and decided I needed to do something about it. One of my main concerns these days is our diet. I have been overwhelmed by the fires, the loss of human, animal and veg life, and the destruction of my grandpa's village, that I didn't really bother about much else beyond the necessary. I decided that this was an area that needed action.
So, on our way home we stopped at a local grocery store, and bought some frozen spinach, feta and anthotyro cheese, frozen veggies and some eggs.
While everyone was in front of the TV watching a basketball game between Greece and Israel, I started working on the kitchen front.
I let the filo pastry defrost (never be without filo pastry, I say!), and I went on making the filling for a cheese pie and a spinach pie.
Then I asked our elder daughter, F, to help me go through some lentils. She was half asleep, my darling, after her first English class of the season, 3 hours in the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon, so I let her go to sleep and continued with making a lentile soup. I used the leftover greek salad from Sunday for the sauce, minus the feta cheese which I used for the pie, and the olives, which I saved and will serve tomorrow with the soup.
When I finished it was sometime after 2 a.m. I didn't want to go to sleep yet, though, so I leafed through Pottery Barn Home
and At Home with White
, two of my favorite home interest books, accompanied by some chips and barbecue sauce (I know it is bad for me, and the only thing I regret about yesterday. I should have washed those crisp golden raisins instead!).When I got myself to bed, J was sleeping alongside his dad, and D was sleeping in J's bed. So I went upstairs and slept on D's bunk bed!
A lovely day with a lovely lesson.
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