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Jesus Loves the Little Children

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon by Rick Crandall

Grayson Baptist Church - June 9, 2013

*You have surely heard the tune. It was first written as a marching song for the Union Army, during the Civil War: "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching."

*Later this tune became one of the all-time favorite Christian songs for children. And we have sung it many times:

-"Jesus loves the little children,

-All the children of the world.

-Red and yellow, black and white,

-They are precious in His sight.

-Jesus loves the little children of the world." (1)

1. Jesus loves the little children. -- He loves them so much that He wants us to carry children to Him.

*This is the message to us in vs.13, where God's Word says: "Then they brought young children to Him, that He might touch them. . ." The parents in vs. 13 are a great example for us, because they brought their children to Jesus. And the Lord wants us to do everything we can to bring children to Him.

*And we are not just talking about our own children. Jesus wants us to reach out many more children. Think about extended family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, classmates, teammates, and more.

*Jesus wants us to carry children to Him. One reason why is because children are teachable and reachable. Children are almost always open to spiritual truth. Most children, especially little children, love to come to church. So God wants us to do everything we can to get them to Jesus.

*Jesus wants us to help children come to know Him in a personal way. He also wants us to help them grow into devoted followers of Christ. This is why things like Vacation Bible School, Upward Football and Sunday School are so important. Wonderful things can happen when we bring children to Jesus Christ.

*By the time I met Mr. G.A. Neal he was a good man and a Godly senior adult. He and Mrs. Neal were married for 57 years before he passed away. Mr. Neal helped start a new church as mission, and he served as a deacon. But in his younger years, Mr. Neal was as lost as can be, and he had a terrible drinking problem.

*One night G.A. drank so much that he passed out in a pasture near their house. But they had a little dog named Fannie. And she kept going out to the pasture to check on Mr. Neal. When G.A. sobered up the next day, he said that if a little dog thought that much of him, if a little dog could love him that much, then he needed to do something about his life.

*It was a real turning point in Mr. Neal's life. But two more years passed before he and Mrs. Neal got saved. It happened one night after Vacation Bible School, on the same day that their little girl got saved in that VBS.

*I think it's great that God used a little dog to help Mr. Neal. But it took God's people serving in VBS to help lead the Neal's daughter to the Lord. And it took somebody going to that home to help lead her parents to the Lord.

*Amazing things can happen when we bring children to VBS, because we are really bringing them to Jesus! Some of those children will get saved. And sometimes even their parents can get saved through VBS.

*That matters to God more than we can measure! On a scale of 1 to 10, how important would you say children are to their parents and grandparents? Ten, of course! We would do anything we could to help our children and grandchildren.

*But how important do you think children are to church? -- Also a ten. A church without children is a dying church.

*Now, how important do you think children are to God? -- Ten times ten times ten! Children are infinitely more important to God than they are to the best of us.

*In Matthew 18, Jesus said this to His followers:

10. "Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

11. For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

12. What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?

13. And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

14. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

*Nobody cares more about children than God, so He wants all of us to do everything we can to carry them to Jesus.

-Jesus loves little children so much that He wants us to carry them to Him.

2. And He criticizes people who get in their way.

*In vs. 13&14:

13. Then they brought young children to Him, that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

14. But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.

*Jesus loves children so much that He wants to touch their lives. And He rebukes those who get in the way. In vs. 13, the Lord's own disciples got in the way. They rebuked the parents who brought their children to Jesus. But then in vs. 14, Jesus rebuked His disciples. This verse also says that Jesus was greatly displeased with His disciples when they got in the way.

*Why in the world did the disciples try to block these children from getting to Jesus? One possible reason is that they were extremely busy. Earlier in Mark's Gospel, the disciples were sent out to preach the gospel and heal the sick.

*When they reported back to Jesus, Mark 6:31 tells us: . . . He said to them, "Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.'' For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. The disciples were incredibly busy. So maybe they just didn't want to be interrupted by the children.

*But maybe the disciples could see the strain of the cross begin to wear on Jesus. This was only a few weeks or months before the Lord died on that cross for us. Maybe the disciples were concerned about Jesus.

*But there is never a good reason to keep children away from Jesus!

-He is never too burdened or busy for them.

-And, by the way, He is never too busy for you!

*The Lord was greatly upset when His disciples tried to keep the children from Him. Don't ever think you have a good reason for keeping children from the Lord.

*And don't let anything in your life be a barrier between children and the Lord.

-Not your busyness or your burdens.

-Not your hobbies or your habits.

*In Matthew 18:5&6, Jesus gives us this urgent news:

5. "Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.

6. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

*Jesus loves little children so much that He criticizes people who get in their way.

3. And He calls children to come to Him.

*In vs. 14, Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." Luke 18:16 says: . . . Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Jesus called these children to Him, and He is still calling children to Him today.

*This past Tuesday I had the sad honor of preaching the funeral for Heather Berry. Heather was the young lady who was killed in a terrible wreck 9 days ago. She was just 34 years old.

*Heather's short life overflowed with goodness poured out on other people. She cared about other people. By God's grace, she and her mother spend an hour and a half on the phone together, just hours before the wreck. Some of Heather's last words were expressions of her love, admiration and appreciation for her family.

*She expressed her love with her words, and she backed it up with her actions. One of the best examples was the way this nurse helped take care of her grandfather in his final illness. She also sat with her grandmother, when she was in the hospital.

*And Heather's caring heart went far beyond her family. Back when she was a student at ULM, Heather tutored for a couple of years at the Baptist Children's Home. Senior adults also had a special place in her heart. That started when Heather was just a little girl. She would go to the nursing home with her aunt, because Heather loved playing the piano for the people there.

*Years later, when Heather worked as a nurse with the elderly, she went over and above what she had to do. One of the most servant-hearted things she did was give manicures and pedicures to women and the men too, if they needed it. The first thing Heather would do is wash their feet. What a Christ-like thing to do!

*And Heather cared about spiritual needs. When she was only in the 7th grade, Heather led another girl to the Lord. She tried to witness every way that she could. And all of this good flowed out of the fact that Heather trusted in the Lord when she was only 5 years old.

*Jesus calls children to come to Him. Some of the most famous Christians in history were also saved when they were very young. Matthew Henry was 11. Jonathan Edwards was 7. Richard Baxter was 6. Isaac Watts was 9. Corrie ten Boom received Jesus at the age of 5. One of the fathers of modern missions, Nicholaus Zinzendorf, was only 4!

*The great missionary Stanley Jones was moved to be a missionary when he was 8-years-old. Stanley saw a poster of a big tiger standing beside a little boy from India. And underneath the little boy's picture was this caption: "Who will tell me about Jesus?" Eight-year-old Stanley Jones said, "I will."

*W. A. Criswell was one of the greatest pastors of the 20th century. He was saved when he was 10. But he felt God calling him into ministry even earlier. Criswell stated, "I had been thinking about being a preacher for years, -- since I was 6. I knew I had not been saved. But I knew that God wanted me to be a preacher." (2)

*Jesus calls children to come to Him. The next W.A. Criswell or Corrie ten Boom may be in the nursery right now! And we need to do all we can to help them know that Jesus is calling for them.

*And by the way, Jesus is calling for you too. In Isaiah 45:21&22 He says,

21. . . "There is no other God besides Me, a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

22. Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other."

*In Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus calls:

28. Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

30. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

*Jesus loves little children so much that He calls them to come to Him.

4. And He cautions us to be like them.

*Jesus made this crucial point in vs. 15, where He said: "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.''

*Here, the Lord uses children as a model for salvation, and He is very emphatic. The only way to get to heaven is to become like a little child. But what does that mean?

*One truth it shows is that we must be spiritually born again into the Family of God. There is no spiritual life in us, unless it flows out of His life. And the only way for us to receive this life is to receive Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. We have to trust in Him, trust in His love and forgiveness, and trust in His cross.

*Then, like a little child, we should trust in our Heavenly Father's care. We should love Him, learn from Him, and be disciplined by Him, knowing that we can always count on the love of Jesus Christ.

*Jesus loves little children so much that He cautions us to be like them.

5. And He wants to carry them.

*Verse 13 tells us that those parents wanted Jesus to touch their children. But the wonderful truth is that Jesus also wanted to touch those children! This is the message to us in vs.16, where the Word of God says: "He took them up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them."

*Here is a wonderful truth for us: The God of the whole universe is close enough to touch us, and He wants to touch us! He wants to pick us up when we fall down. And He wants to safely carry us all the way home to Heaven.

*In Isaiah 46:3-4 the Lord says:

3. "Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by Me from birth, who have been carried from the womb:

4. even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."

*That's how much the Lord loves little children. And that's how much He loves us.

*Christian: If you're ever tempted to doubt the Lord Jesus' love for you, go back to the cross! Remember what our Risen Savior did on that cross for us: He took all of the punishment for all of our sins.

*Pastor Thomas Long told the story of Confirmation Sunday at a friend's church. All the young students stood before the congregation and recited a Bible passage they had memorized. For this particular Sunday, the students memorized a passage from Romans 8.

*The teacher would start out by asking each child, "What shall separate you from the love of God?" And each child would then proudly recite, "I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation can separate me from the love of God in Jesus Christ."

*Each child recited the passage perfectly. But the church was holding its breath for the last child, Rachel. Rachel was born with Down syndrome. She was loved very much, and normally very happy. But would Rachel be embarrassed when it was her turn to recite the Scripture?

*Finally, the teacher got to the end of the line and asked, "Rachel, what shall separate you from the love of God?" Rachel stood and with joyful enthusiasm simply replied: "Nothing!" (3)

*This is the love that Jesus has for all the little children of the world. And this is the love that He has for me and you. So put your trust in Jesus Christ.

*He is God the Son who came into this world to die on the cross for you. He rose again from the dead. And He will give His everlasting life to you, if you will open your heart to Him.

*Trust Him; love Him; serve Him; worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And do anything you can to help other people know about the love of Jesus Christ.

*Would you please bow for prayer

(2) Adapted from "Nelson's Complete Book of Stories, Illustrations and Quotes"

(3) Adapted from Thomas Long in "Ten Great Preachers" - edited by Bill Turpie - Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000 - pp. 90-91 - Source: sermon "Children of Dust or Children of God?" by King Duncan - Eph 1:1-14 - Christmas 2005

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to link my voice to this?

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A personal style in art making

A personal style in art making is not the same thing as a style of art in history, or culture.  A personal style in art is a deep reflection of how I, as an artist,  respond to the world.  I am thinking of the visual arts because I am a painter, but this response to the world is parallel for writers and dancers and musicians; for all creative effort.
To catch a glimmering of my personal style in art, I look for patterns that emerge across the years of my art making, and not just within individual pieces.  I have discovered three patterns of apprehending and responding to my lived world that form a core of my personal style as an artist.

I attend to density.  Every part, and every part between the part, is whole.  Density is not just physical complication, it is a feeling tone that suffuses every mark and material.

This painting originated from a failed drum head intended to be a frame drum whose surface just kept inviting me in and then in again--layer upon dense layer until I realized I was creating an ovum and the sperm were reaching its rim and the blood was coursing around the feather soft nest of the mother dreaming her child to her.  In my art making, my style is saying density is not a result of confusion or a welter of data, it comes from a full weight of meaning.

I attend to edges.  The lost and found edges in these original paintings for the  Journey Oracle cards are what pulls me into the mystery of who and what I am seeing.  We are none of us complete, and when I allow an image to be incomplete, I feel a kindred vibration.

Even a simple sketch of the BC coastline made while leaning on a ferry railing can become suffused with awe if I do not anchor the sensory impression to my urge to control the form.

Perhaps the most predominant aspect of my personal style in art is my love of curves.  I seem to not be able to render a form with a hard angle--

no matter how sharp and dramatic are the angles of the total composition.

The qualities of a personal style in art are mostly unconscious.  These Oracle cards are filled with lines, and yet the overall sensation is of density, lost and found edges, and curves.  We each respond to the feeling tone of forms and spaces based on our unique way of being in the world.

 If you are not sure you have a personal style in art, just look at your signature.  The pressure, width of line, boldness of stroke, size and flourish are all a mirror of the patterns and preferences that flow from your fingers whenever you sign your name.

Of course, there are times when the Art in nature conspires to show the human artist a deeper version of her style.  For this remarkable image on a frame drum I only added the eyes, the ochre and black iron oxide of the nose, and the lines defining the mouth.  It was mostly painted by mold as it grew the dense, curved, indeterminate edges of its art across the hide surface while the skin was drying.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Best sources for names of paintings.

The unexpected comment is one of my best sources of names for paintings.  Just like a Journey Oracle card reading singles out images, aspects of nature and dream-like pronouncements that empower forces to speak that are beyond one's conscious control--chance is my favorite origin of painting titles. A name that both conveys a sense of my intended meaning and also provides insight into the mystery behind all art.

usual magic

This large acrylic painting completed during my tenure at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design had one of my favorites sources for painting names: the television.  While watching TV one evening I was suddenly brought to attention by an After Eight chocolate advertisement.  The announcer's voice said, "Catherine worked her usual magic at the dinner party...."  That's it!  A title that both captures my sense of nature, and also opens to the sensation that just beyond reach there is something more.

What time is this?

What story is this?

These two drawings in colored pencil were completed as nature lessons for a young art student.  The titles are literally two assignments.  Can you look out at nature and say what time of year this is just by identifying the presence and condition of the plants you see?  Can you tell the story of the plants you see: their First Nations lore, medicinal uses and local mythology?

not an exit

While attending Martin Prechtel's school of spiritual ecology in New Mexico, I would go for walks to sketch the area cemetery. When standing next to the fence gazing at possibilities for a composition, a local man mistook my interest for trying to find a way through to the road beyond and said," There's not an exit from here, you know."

no more waiting

Later I was telling a friend about my work with Martin and how the study was changing my sense of purpose, especially with my work on the Journey Oracle divination deck, and she said, "There is no more waiting for the time to be soon, or better, or whatever.  Just do it now!"

nothing is coming

My favorite name for a painting in this cemetery series is the one that I completed after I returned back to Cortes Island.  I asked my partner John what he thought would be a good name, and he said, "nothing is coming."

The true magic of these three sketches is that no one title carries the full impact of the three pieces together.  When taken as one statement these three names certainly open to the sensation that something deeper and more thought-provoking is afoot.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Make new art

I  paint large photo-realist acrylic paintings, make native style frame drums, and teach about my Journey Oracle cards, but some of my most fun comes from always trying to make new art. New in every way: new materials, new techniques, new ideas for subjects and ways of working.

This watercolor work was continuously turned in a circle as I painted faces I saw in a stone.  A wonderful example of how art changes with one's point of view.

Some of the most exciting, and dangerous, art I have made involved sealing drawings, found objects and extruded letters inside Plexiglas boxes.

This tiny extruded acrylic letter inspired a favorite phrase that I still use when writing my artist's statements: "I feel like a little hook reaching into mystery."

When I learned that throughout history artists have died from toxic fumes, I decided to put down the propane torch and chemical mask, and go for safer materials.

The drawing became beading on a loom, the wood became the frame, and the construction process itself became rain.

While this small acrylic painting seems to echo the painting I do on my frame drums with raw earth pigments, the new art here is the process itself.  Lots of different kinds of mark-making materials were smeared around inside a cereal box.  While this was drying a slip of paper was drawn from three different piles of nouns and verbs.  A section of cereal box was copied and then embellished to become the image for the title made from the three words:  Welcome to Swim House.  Years later this is still one of the most enigmatic pieces I have ever painted.

Sometimes what makes new art is not doing anything new at all.  This accidentally double exposure while on a camping trip became a symbol of Waiting for Apocalypse to me, made all the more potent
with the technology itself as the subject.

I think my favorite way to make new art is to transform something old and damaged into a new form.
This failed drum head became a pen and ink drawing, and then a raw earth pigment painting, and then was sewn inside a warped drum hoop which became filled with turkey feathers.  Somewhere in the middle of this process I realized I was creating blood lines, and swimming sperm, and the egg of new beginnings.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Acrylic painting of mystery

Sometimes I feel compelled to paint an image that is more than just 'mysterious'.  It is like the image itself has a task, a something to do that is not of this human realm. The composition and title may push me further into the depths of confusion, rather than bring me to the surface of comprehension.

This painting is named Grief's true reckoning.  When I think of these words their meaning seems to just slip pass my sensation of aha! into a darker place of what?  Webster's Dictionary says to "reckon" is to consider, to judge, to estimate.  Grief's true consideration, judgement, estimation.

The image came as I was walking about in the garden looking for some photo ideas that might make a new painting.  Suddenly I felt compelled to return to the house and take the bear skull from above my altar and return to the little waterfall that flows into the splash pond.  This is it.  I put the skull in the pond without considering any of the art qualities of arrangement, balance, form or color in the scene.  Just take the picture.

I don't remember how the title came, or why I call it this, or what my action completed for the bear skull so long separated from its body and the earth.  Art may be the only thing that makes us pay enough attention to know there is mystery.   As I quote from Diane Schoemperlen in the book that accompanies my Journey Oracle cards:
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, by Mystery,
the opposite of truth is not lies but Revelation.

To purchase a print of this painting, please go to my web store.

Sunday, February 15, 2015

How I title a painting

The titles for my acrylic paintings are very important to me, because they reflect the idea behind the image, and also direct how I apply the paint.   Often, I have the title at the same moment I have the image--sometimes even before. This dappled forest image was taken while walking in the backwoods of Nova Scotia, near Tantallon.

At home that night I was watching TV when an commercial came on for After Eight Chocolates. There was a line of dialog that when something like, "Marie worked her usual magic" showing a woman offering a plate of after dinner mints to a guest. I remember saying, "that's what that stream was today--usual magic."  And so the painting, and the idea directing the painting, had a name.

The first thing I establish is the focus which is a function of light and distance.  This is usual, which to me means common, regular; downed branches, twigs and moss.

Light is movement.

Focus, light and movement create magic on the painted surface.

Contrast is drama.  Watching the usual magic of water flowing, and how the light juxtaposes darkest dark and lightest light becomes a lesson in creating drama.

I think the secret of usual magic in nature, as well as in art, is to not let the net be broken.  No matter how dense or small the detail, every part and every part within the part, is whole.

Usual Magic
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It goes something like this.

“The placebo effect is imaginary. The effect is real, but because it’s caused by imaginary factors, it’s less important than other factors that can be proven and repeated by science.”

There’s much that science doesn’t yet know about the human mind.

Outer space and inner space might be the two biggest frontiers for science for the 21st century and beyond: how far we can progress human understanding of the universe way out there, and the multiverse inside our brains.

One of the most fascinating things about the human mind is the placebo effect.

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Also routinely, the trials are conducted “double blind” so that neither the participants nor the testers know whether they’ve received an active drug or a sugar pill.

Often, both groups report benefits.

If a statistically significant difference is not proven in a repeatable way, the drug will not be approved.

Sugar pills can create placebo effects.

Many other things can also have the same result.

Meditation and positive self-talk affirmations are two other activities that can have placebo effects.

There’s a recurring theme in the old Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich, called “the power of auto-suggestion”.

It’s the same thing.

By changing the way we think, we change the way we talk, dress and show up in the world.

The impact is powerful for ourselves as individuals, which is a great thing.

Maybe even more importantly, it’s powerful for the people who need us.

The placebo effect usually comes accompanied by some negative tone, something pejorative or diminishing.

Changing the way we think about the placebo effect has the power to change everything.


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Some Bad Theories of Management
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Some Bad Theories of Management

Some bad theories of management I've come across. If in doubt, don't do this.

Here are some bad theories of management I've come across. Keeping them in mind as a handy "Do Not Do" guide.

The Mushroom Theory of Management

Sergeant Dignam: My theory on feds is that their like mushrooms, you feed them shit and keep them in the dark.
From "The Departed"

Mushroom management is when upper levels of leadership do not share information downstream. Teams end up working on projects without knowing the purpose of their work, or without knowing how it fits in to the bigger picture. This hamstrings planning and creates misalignment. It also forces waterfall-like planning, putting the onus of architecture and integration on higher levels of management that are likely disconnected from on-the-ground realities.

This tends to happen because of a culture of poor communication or due to arrogant leadership that doesn't consider others' opinions.

Please note, this is different from the Mushroom Theory of Managers, which is where management is promoted and grows all over the place, resulting in a) inflated titles and b) a lack of individual contributors responsible for actually  getting the work done.

Seagull Management

"A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away."
James Hunter

Seagull managers swoop in at odd times, make a lot of noise, and then are not seem from again for a while. If things are good, they'll take the credit. If things are bad, they'll blame everyone around them.

I suppose the inverse of a seagull manager is a 'Mollusk Manager', who gets stuck on something entirely tiny and is entirely too hard to get rid of.

Petty Tyranny

Petty tyrants own a small area of responsibility and rule over it with an authoritarianism disproportionate to the role's importance. These aren't necessarily managers either – I often think of that proverbial coworker in finance who won't do something unless it is done entirely in their arbitrary way and won't budge for anything.

Toxic environments, 'kiss up/kick down', and abuse of power/control are all synonymous with this style of work.

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Lenexa OKs final plan for AdventHealth campus at City Center — What happens next

A rendering of the AdventHealth Life Campus near Lenexa City Center, a project which has been discussed in some form since 2008. File image.

A proposal for a five-story hospital and three-story medical office building at Lenexa’s City Center – in the works since 2008 – crossed a major milestone Tuesday night with the city council’s approval of a final plan.

Next steps: Site work is already in progress on the AdventHealth Life Campus at 86th Street and Renner Boulevard.

  • Once the rocks are cleared and utility work is done, perhaps as early as late fall, footings can be poured for what will be the first phase of the 11-building campus.

When will the project be complete? The 230,000-square-foot hospital and companion medical office building, which will be 55,500 square feet, are the first key parts of a project expected to take 20 years to complete, councilmembers said.

  • The area was originally permitted for a hospital in 2008, but underwent changes and a more recent delay due to the pandemic.
  • The 25-acre campus will occupy a corner near Interstate 435 and just northeast of the Lenexa Rec Center and Public Market.
The planned site for the new AdventHealth Life Campus at City Center, near 87th Street Parkway and Renner Boulevard. Image via Lenexa city documents.

Concerns from neighboring residents: As it went through the planning process, the project got some pushback from neighbors to the north.

  • They were concerned about the height of the originally planned eight-story hospital that would be accentuated by its position atop a hill.
  • They also worried about noise from a heliport.

Council discussion: Councilmember Melanie Arroyo, who was elected in 2021, asked about those issues as well.

  • Other councilmembers said they believed Advent officials have done a good job of addressing those concerns. Advent agreed to reduce the hospital’s height to five stories.
  • Councilmember Joe Karlin, who lives in the neighborhood near the hospital, said opposition has died down and the developer has done a good job of working with the neighborhood.
  • Councilmember Julie Sayers noted that she lives under the flight path of helicopters going to Overland Park Regional Medical Center: “It’s just something you get used to. The dogs freak out sometimes, but it’s not a big deal.”
  • Arroyo and Sayer also encouraged the developer to include green space and trees to protect people from the heat. Both added they support the project.

The council generally lauded the development. Councilmember Tom Nolte said it is likely to be the largest project in Lenexa’s history.

Key quote: “This is definitely an iconic structure,” that Lenexa will be fortunate to have, Nolte said. “I know how many times we have lamented the Lowes and the Home Depots have skipped over us and we didn’t get the big boxes,” he said. “I’m certainly thrilled that this hospital group, which had many options, has decided to place their facility here. It speaks so much of their trust in our community.”


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Anyone ready for yet another venting of feelings, emotions, and struggles from me? Yeah, I’m guessing not, but it’s happening anyway. As with my last two posts we are jumping in, forgetting the editing (sorry for the grammar lovers out there), and expressing my feelings. Is everybody ready? Then let’s go.

I want to talk about 2 reality checks I wish people, particularly Americans, would have. I know a significant portion of you amazing, and lucky, followers are foreign. How you must be laughing at my country right now. Or crying for us. It probably flips between the two. The first is the word people keep throwing around about how “careful” they are. The second is the reality check of the timescale we are looking at with COVID.

So let’s talk about “careful”. Do you know how often people throw that word in my face? Every. Single. Day. They think because they wear a mask to the store they are the very definition of “careful”. Now, don’t get me wrong, masks are so important in public I cannot stress it enough. If you go in public without a mask you might as well stop reading now. I can’t help you. But the idea that wearing a mask in public somehow earns you a “careful” title like you’re some kind of Animal Crossing character is ridiculous. Yes, you’ve cut out one source of infection. But if you do nothing about all the other sources of possible infection the word you’re looking for isn’t “careful”. It’s “reckless”.

Let’s talk about this graphic. This graphic shows the percentage of where people got COVID from in my state. While these aren’t exact numbers for every state (they are my state’s numbers), the proportions of the pie chart are pretty similar for other states. And this is not exact risk, because risk is defined by the amount of community spread in your area. But this graphic is a good reminder of how risky your choices are – the more percentages you can cross off your potential exposure list, the less likely you are to get COVID. “Unspecified” means everything outside of social, workplace, and household. This is school if your kids are in it, shopping and stores, dining in restaurants, and all the other little interactions we have with people daily. Now, for this example I need to break up the “Household portion” based on the percentages of the other groups. Because if you are the safest you possibly can be it doesn’t matter if your household is being unsafe – your household will determine, to a large extent, your risk level. So the math comes out to (yay, math, right?) 45% of household members got their COVID from social interaction (this is 27% of infections), 35% got it from unspecified (21% of infections), and 18% got it from the workplace (now 11%). And once again, these percentages also need to factor in amount of spread in your community – I’m not saying your true risk are the following numbers. But this is the true risk factor taken into account with community spread. So while it’s not the complete number, it is a portion of the complete number.

Now, let’s get into the nitty gritty. Let’s say you wear masks to the store, don’t dine in restaurants (I mean never. Taking off your mask in a public space, no matter what reason, is a big no), don’t go to the gym (because even with masks they’ve shown gyms to be pretty unsafe, plus most people working out don’t wear masks and that’s an enormous risk), and don’t have kids in school yet. That sounds super careful, right? Yeah, it’s not bad. If you do those things you’ve cut out 14% of your risk level. That’s it. JUST 14%. Your behavior is now at an 86% risk of getting COVID. Does that honestly sound “careful” to you? Now let’s add your household into this (roommates, parents, significant others, children – every single person you live with). If every single person in your household does all of those things you’ve cut out 14% of risk plus the 35% of household risk (which equals 21% risk because it’s 35% of 60%… Everyone following?)- you’ve now cut out 35% of the risk. You’re now at 65% risk of getting COVID. And seriously- that means every single person follows every single rule. Kids wear masks, especially at school, no one goes to the gym, everyone follows the rules and you’re still at 65% risk of getting COVID. “Yeah I’m super careful I wear masks to the grocery store” doesn’t sound so careful anymore, does it?

What if you’re lucky enough to work from home? Sounds awesome, right? Now you’ve only eliminated 21.5% of risk (unspecified + workplace). Does everyone in your family get to work from home? Yes? That’s fortunate! So if you, and everyone in your household, follow all the “unspecified” rules and work from home or have rigorous workplace regulations you’ve eliminated 53.5% of the risk. That’s it. Doing all those things combined for your entire household still only gets you to 53.5% risk elimination. That’s better, but still barely over 50%. If I told you the odds of getting attacked by a shark if you went swimming were 46.5% would you honestly go in the water?

Now for the big one – socializing. Socializing is the hard one for people to cut out. But it’s also your biggest risk. If anyone in your household socializes in an unsafe way you will never get below a 46.5% risk. EVER. When you use the phrase “I’m super careful” to me and I can see your instagram, your photos, your telling me about all the things you’re doing, your unsafe interactions all I can think is “I do not think that word means what you think it means”. Allowing your family to have that much risk is not careful.

So what do we do, Teri? I’m so bored/lost/anxious/want everything to be normal. You can minimize that 46.5% risk by doing one very simple thing – closed social circles. For those of you science/mathmatically minded closed loops are easy to understand. For others, let me demonstrate with a long paragraph:

If Ellie (yep, going with Ellie because, spoilers, she was frustrating in TLOU II) only socializes with her family that sounds safe, right? She has 3 siblings and 2 parents. She sees 5 people regularly. Oh, and their kids. So let’s make it 10 people, without masks, not social distancing. Those 10 people are being the “careful” we’ve just talked about. Oh they wear masks to the stores, but they dine in restaurants sometimes (life is hard enough!), and their kids hang out with friends (they’re just so bored!), and one sibling has roommates (yeah, they hang out with their friends. I’m not sure who). How safe does Ellie sound right now? Ellie’s circle includes not just her 10 family members, but the friends of the 5 kids, and the friend’s parents, and the parents friends, and any other friends those kids hang out with. Let’s go with an even 10 people per kid (friends, families of friends, and friends of friends – honestly 10 feels conservative). Ellie is now up to 60 people she regularly comes into contact with without social distancing and masks. Then Ellie’s sibling with roommates – let’s count her numbers. Let’s see, she has 3 roommates, who each have 5 friends they hang out with on a regular basis. But those 5 friends also have 5 friends. We don’t need to go further. I’m pretty sure you’ll get the point. So that adds 30 more people to her list. She’s now up to 90 people she comes in contact with regularly without masks. Still sound safe to you? Let’s add yet another option in (but wait! Isn’t that enough? Oh, honey, this isn’t even the worst open circle I know about). Let’s say one of Ellie’s siblings starts dating someone. So we only add one more person, right? Wrong. We’ve not only added one person, but that person’s family that they see, all the people their family sees, and that person’s roommates, and all the roommates friends. We’ve just added another 90 people to Ellie’s circle. And the list never ends. Because this is the opposite of a closed circle. The risk is real, here, folks, despite the fact that Ellie wears a mask and “is so careful”.

Is Ellie more careful than the person who wanders around maskless, protesting, and shouting in people’s faces about “their rights”? Of course she is. I just wish Ellie, and people like her, would stop kidding themselves about their level of care and waving around their idea of themselves as “careful” like they’ve won some kind of award. You’re behavior is risky. Admit it. I care, on a professional and personal level, whether these people are actually careful. But I don’t get to make their decisions for them. They get to be risky all on their own. All I want is for them to take responsibility for their risky behavior and stop using the word “careful” when they really mean the opposite.

You want to talk about a safe social circle, the ones the experts discuss? Let’s talk about my social circle. Did you know that I can name not only every single person I have close contact with without masks on, but it is less than 20. Every single individual I come in contact with also has a closed circle. So my circle is literally the handful of people I see and the handful of people they see, who also see no one else. Sounds complicated? I’ll explain better. We see, on a regular basis, two families. One of 3 and one of 5. The family of 3 has regular contact with a married couple, who have contact with no one else. So right now my circle is up to 10. The family of 5 sees a married couple and a family of 4, who only see each other. So the entire circle of the married couple and the family of 4 is 6. My entire potential social circle is 16 people. That’s it. Is it hard? Yep. But we’ve all made the agreement that this is our life and for months on end we’ve all stuck to it. And if, for unfortunate reasons, somehow that circle is broken (one of the families comes in contact with someone outside our circle for any reason) they isolate themselves for 10-14 days to ensure they aren’t putting the rest of the circle at risk. Being truly careful is doable, folks. It’s hard and involves a lot video calls and outdoor physical distancing picnics to see people outside our circle. But we are being careful.

Now for a caveat. I understand that there are situations completely outside of our control. One of the people in my social circle is a teacher and school is going back in session soon. Several of the kids in our circle are school-age and will be attending school. Luckily our state has a mask mandate for all school children and workers, but it definitely weakens our circle. These are circumstances beyond our control and they increase our risk. There are things we literally can do nothing (or next to nothing) about. But we are doing everything we can to mitigate our risk outside those mandatory circumstances. So our risk level, when school starts, goes up. But you know what, it’s a hell of a lot lower than the risk level of Ellie, who adds all the school-age kids and young adults (college, possibly), to their 180+ circle.

Once again, if people choose to make risky choices I can’t stop them and I can’t protect them. But they need to stop calling their actions “careful” like they’re actually attempting to be part of the solution.

Now let’s get into an even worse downer – the reality check. This is the reality check I wish most people could wrap their heads around. It’s the one scientists and public health experts and historians have known from the beginning. This virus isn’t going anywhere for years. Let me repeat that. This virus isn’t going anywhere for years.

There are two ways to get rid of a virus (or at least control a virus).

  1. Douse the fire. Think of it like a fire. Fire requires oxygen to survive, so you douse the fire, cut off it’s oxygen source, it’ll die out without spreading. What is the equivalent of dousing the fire for a disease? Treatment at the source. It means being able to treat a person and cure them of the disease before it has a chance of spreading to another person. There are no known treatments for COVID. Nothing we have will, to our knowledge, kill COVID. The best we can do are symptomatic treatments, which may make your symptoms less severe so you don’t die while your body naturally fights and kills COVID on it’s own. So option 1 is totally out for COVID.
  2. Remove it’s source of fuel. If we need to stop a fire we need to make sure the wood and materials around that fire can’t burn. You need to remove it’s food source. You can use fire suppressant, you can use water, you can do whatever it takes to get rid of it’s possible food options. If there’s nowhere to burn, it’ll die out on it’s own. Simple right? Let’s apply that to a disease. Humans and other animals are the food source for COVID. This virus will keep jumping around, infecting people as long as we give it a food source. There are a few ways to get rid of the food source for COVID – physical distancing, a vaccine, and herd immunity. Let’s talk about those in more detail.

Let’s start with herd immunity because it’s the easiest. Herd immunity means everyone goes back to their daily lives, no masks, no nothing, just back to normal. This strategy is also called “cull the herd”. It means we accept that our actions will kill a portion of the population and we don’t care. For herd immunity to be reached with an actively spreading virus estimates are that 80-90% of the population will need to become infected before the virus will go away. Let’s take the United States, because, well, I live here. There are 328 million people in the US. Let’s say only 80% need to become infected for herd immunity – that means 262.5 million infections. With a true death rate (that means the infection fatality rate) of roughly 0.5-1% (let’s go with the lower number so as not to shock you too much) that means 13.12 million people will die from COVID. Probably within a 3 year time frame. You want world numbers? Okay – 7.656 billion people. That means 6.125 billion infections and 306 million deaths. Does herd immunity still sound like a good idea? Callous, data-driven scientists, when we aren’t taking into account actual human life and are simply looking at the numbers, call these diseases population culling diseases. Removing 0.5% of 7.656 billion people is a number I don’t think we can actually comprehend. That’s removing the population of the United States, the third most populous country in the world, in 3 years. And that doesn’t include the 30% of the population that will have lifelong neurological and/or physical damage because this virus leaves 30% of survivors with scars that’ll probably never heal. That’s nearly 2 billion people with severe long-term, possibly lifelong, side effects.

So we need a vaccine! A vaccine will be nice – but it’s not going to save everyone. A vaccine, at the best of times, is 70% effective. So that means, if 100% of the people in our country get vaccinated, 30% will still be vulnerable to COVID. With herd immunity already pinpointed at 80-90% that means 10-20% of people would still have the possibility of getting sick if we can’t wipe it out of our communities. Now, that’s a best case scenario. There’s no way on the planet America is going to get that lucky. First of all, most vaccines are looking to be about 50-60% effective. Which means 40-50% of people who get vaccinated will still be at risk of getting COVID. And that doesn’t take into account the roughly 1/3 of the population in the US who poll in at “anti-vaccine”. So if 33% of the population doesn’t get vaccinated plus 26% of the population aren’t immune because of vaccine efficacy we are looking at 59% of the population of my country not having protection against COVID. Then we still have to make up the difference to get to 80% immune. The vaccine won’t save us unless we do more.

Physical distancing is the best cure we have right now – it’s really the only cure we have right now. If we stay away from each other we can keep the fire low – the virus can’t jump to another person and restart if there isn’t a person to jump to. That’s why 6 foot distancing and mask wearing is SO IMPORTANT. I cannot stress enough how important this is. If we give the virus nowhere to go it’ll get under control all on it’s own. That’s how New Zealand did it. It’s how Taiwan did it. It’s how Vietnam did it. Distancing until this virus is gone or until we can start vaccinating will save our world from so much pain and sorrow. I wish people could just get. this. through. their. heads. STOP SOCIALIZING and we may not have to stop socializing for much longer. The more you do it, the more fuel you’re giving the fire, the longer this will take to get under control.

So what we need is a mindset change. Stop thinking of this as a short term problem and start visualizing it as a long term problem. This virus isn’t going anywhere until either herd immunity is met (with or without a vaccine) or we can burn the virus down to nothing. So figure out a long-term, sustainable game plan for getting life back to as normal as you can. John and I have already figured out our game plan. It’s not easy, especially with a 4-year-old, but it’s sustainable and removes as much risk as we possibly can. Change your mindset and focus on creating a long-term plan that minimizes your risk of not only contracting the virus but of spreading the virus. If you want tips or help – I’m here. It’s not easy, but we’re in this for the long haul. We’re looking at at least a year (at the earliest) before life slowly starts to normalize. If people change their mindsets and come up with a plan now we may finally be able to nip this virus in the bud.

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  1. I don’t understand why people are so selfish, idiotic, and heartless. This pandemic is dragging out the worst in humanity and it’s hopelessly frustrating and sad to witness.

    The masses seem incapable of changing behavior patterns unless they actually see the worst happen, but by then it’s too late to fix anything.

    This is also a new virus and there are so many unknowns about long term health effects, right? Even if you aren’t at risk
    or are a jerk who doesn’t care about the value of life, it’s in your best interest to do everything in you power to NOT get it. I didn’t know about vaccine effectiveness stats so that was interestingly sad to to find out about here, haha.

    Thank you for sharing all this. We can only do what we can! Stay safe and keep being awesome ♥

  2. I wish I could physically print this and post it where I work.

    Ok I’m in the UK but I work retail and hate it atm because people are difficult and have similar beliefs of “careful”. For them it’s over and they can go shopping so they will because it was so tough for them but they are being careful (which they tell me whilst not using sanitiser or wearing a mask correctly for example). Or the person who pulled their mask down to lick their fingers to get their cash out to give to me….

    People don’t see it as a problem if it hasn’t affected them and they only consider the direct impact and how hard its been on them. If they wear a mask even if its not on correctly they claim they are protecting themselves and are being careful.

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    1. Oh I’m so glad I’m not the only one annoyed by this! I wish people could come to grips with the reality of the situation so we can finally defeat this thing.

      I hope you’re staying safe in retail! That’s a difficult place to be right now.

      1. Its a really difficult situation and retail is not a position I want to be in. For several reasons I don’t feel safe at work but I also can’t quit as need the money so stuck and trying to keep as safe as possible within the circumstances.

        I think if people were actually being sensible then opening up (albeit much slower) would be possible and not as much of a problem. Also I have several suggestions for people if they choose to go out in order to make the experience better for everyone and would just generally like people to follow basic instructions (like one way systems mean one way and how to wear a mask properly). Just because a mask is in the vague area of you doesn’t mean it reduces your risk/risk to others if I can see your nose and/or mouth for example.

        There needs to be less of a focus on going back to how it was and more of how to move it on to a new normal (my opinion). People want normal but we can’t go back to that as that world doesn’t exist now.

        You definitely aren’t the only one who feels this way. Though I suspect we aren’t the majority. I know I’m considered weird for not wanting to go to restaurants and not going shopping or meeting up with everyone. Not that I don’t miss people but I don’t want to be put at risk or put people at risk either.

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      2. I think you’re right on the money with saying that our old world doesn’t exist anymore. We need to accept it and figure out how to live in this new world or we will never be at peace. It’s hard but it’s not like we have a lot of choice. Denial isn’t a good strategy to a world-changing, life-altering pandemic.

        I hope things get better at work. I can’t imagine how difficult your job has been but I know you can handle it! You’re amazing, after all! You can do this!

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Trim Healthy Mama {Some of My Tips & Tricks}

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 Trim Healthy Mama {My Tips & Tricks}

I thought it would be fun to jot down some random tips and tricks that have helped me on my THM journey. There are many more that I could share and some that I didn’t think of, but this is a start. I’m sure I will have another post down the road with more! My prayer is that there is something here that will help you. Have a wonderful day!

1. I love to have my own THM pizza, but I would never use up the jar of pizza sauce before it spoiled.  To remedy this, when I open up a new jar I pour tablespoon sized portions into ice cube trays and freeze.  Once they are frozen, pop them out, place them in a labeled freezer bag, and store in the freezer.  When you want to make a pizza for yourself, just get out one or two cubes and thaw on the counter or in the microwave.  No more wasting pizza sause!

2. When making my Fudgy No-Bake Cookies or the yummy fudge recipe in the THM book, I use a small cookie scoop that holds about a tablespoon of dough. I simply scoop out tablespoon portions for my cookies and plop them onto foil to set up.  For the fudge, I use the scoop to scoop out the fudge and place them into ice cube trays to harden.  I then pop them, place them in a container or freezer bag, and store in the refrigerator or freezer. Using a cookie scoop is an easy way to set portion sizes for your cookies!

Sugar-Free with Sheri

3. When I am wanting to have a FP wrap, I just get a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese and smear it on my lavash bread (1/2 of a whole lavash), add some fat free lunch meats and lettuce and roll up. If you use some of the yummy flavored Laughing Cow cheese, this makes such a yummy wrap.

4. Quick snacks are a MUST! Many afternoons I take a half of a lavash bread and crisp it in the microwave for about 45 seconds.  I let it cool then break it up into four big “chips”.  Then I smear a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese on top or mix up some of the yummy yogurt dip in the THM book, and have some chips and dip!

5. Having some yummy desserts that are quick to make can be a huge help in avoiding eating desserts that aren’t good for you. Take your favorite THM cake (check out my yummy FP cakes!), and some little containers with lids.  Into each container add the dry ingredients for one recipe. Put the lids on, label, and store in the refrigerator.  When you are wanting a cake for a snack or dessert, take a container out of the refrigerator, add in the wet ingredients, bake and eat!

6. Need a quick pizza crust?  Just crisp up a Joseph’s Pita Bread, top with sauce and your favorite toppings, and broil. Yum!

7. I love to have 1% cottage cheese, mixed berries, vanilla, and NuNaturals Stevia all mixed together for a yummy FP meal. But there are times when I would like to add some fat to it and make it an S meal.  An easy and yummy way to do that is to add some chocolate! In a small glass dish, mix up 1 T. coconut oil, 1 scant T. cocoa, and 1 scant T. Truvia. If needed, slightly melt in microwave so it mixes to a nice sauce. Pour over top of your mixed cottage and berries and allow to harden. Then add a few chopped pecans on top. Once the chocolate hardens, I like to chunk it up and mix it and nuts in with the rest of the ingredients. This makes a yummy S meal!

8. Are you fixing grilled hamburgers for dinner? Grilled hamburgers, brats, and salmon have become our Saturday night meal for the last several years. Partly because it is quick and easy, does not dirty a bunch of dishes, and allows my husband to help while I get baths for the kids :)! I love hamburgers too, but know that the yummy buns are not on plan.  So, what I do is mix up a quick bread in a mug recipe, along with some added onion flakes and garlic powder. I bake it in a larger round ramekin in the microwave, pop it out and let it cool, then slice it in half for a nice bun for my hamburger!  It tastes SO good too! Oh..and don’t forget to add some bacon on top!

9. When I am wanting something cold and refreshing to drink, I make up my own version of the Good Girl Moonshine.  It doesn’t have all the ingredients that Pearl and Serene’s recipe does, but it is SO good. I think it tastes like Snapple – with that yummy zing to it! Here is how I make it:  Fill a quart jar half full of water. Heat in the microwave for a minute. Remove and add a Wild Berry Zinger (herbal tea) tea bag. Allow to steep until pretty strong. Remove the tea bag and add 2 tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar, and several shakes of NuNaturals Pure White Stevia Powder. Then fill the quart jar with ice. Stir and taste test. Add more stevia if needed to make it nice and sweet. I LOVE this drink, especially in the summer months!

How about you? Do you have any tips to share? Share them in the comments!

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Quart Jar Cozies – Tired of cold, wet hands while drinking your yummy THM drinks and smoothies?  Take a look at my Quart Jar Cozies!

Sheri’s Trim Healthy Mama Shopping List – I have created a quick shopping list with links to some of the main THM foods!

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    1. Hi Patti, The recipe I referred to in this post was in the original Trim Healthy Mama book, that is why I couldn't share the actual recipe due to copyright issues. But here are some that are THM friendly that other bloggers have published on their sites. You can give these a try! Here they are: I hope that helps and gives you a recipe to try if you don't have one of the THM cookbooks. You can also check your local library! Many libraries are now carrying some of the THM books!
  1. Sheri, what are the measurements for ingredients to your skinny chocolate recipe please?
    1. Hi Gabrielle, There are so many different variations of skinny chocolate out there. Here is one for you to try: Put the following in a small bowl: 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 1/2 cup coconut oil (melted), 3-4 tsp Truvia (ground in coffee grinder) or Nunatruals to taste. Stir all ingredients together with a fork. Line a plate with wax paper and pour liquid chocolate on top. Freeze until solid (about 15 minutes) then move to the fridge to store. Good luck!
    1. Hi Sarah, I would assume so, since I would think that bratwurst is high in fat. Take a look on the package and see what the fat and carb counts are, then check that against the numbers for an S meal.
  2. Your FP cake recipe mixed up in a quart jar for use as needed has been great for me. I also make my own version of GGMS using a variety of fruity teas with lemon juice and ACV for a yummy flavored lemonade that's great hot or cold. My own tips would be to have boneless skinless chicken breasts and 99% lean ground turkey precooked and packed in serving size bags in the freezer along with a variety of vegies fresh and/or frozen. This lets me grab a protein serving to quickly make whatever I'm in the mood for...tacos, fajitas, stir fry, curry, sloppy joes, chef salad, or whatever all readily available.
  3. thanks for the helpful tips im having my first thm meal as I type.hoping I got it right..just wanted to say thanks..cant wait to buy some bread and sugar free sauce this weekend..can I get the book at walmart or k-mart..your food looks so eating turkey sausage with my first fat rich option..hope that's still right because that's what I had on hand.didnt want to wait till Monday to start..
  4. I signed up for wonderful and informationl newsletters. I did not receive the Free Top 10 THM Friendly Recipes ebook that comes with a subscription. I have already order the book and I will need all the help I can get. Please send me one. Thank you.
  5. There is a difference between a snack and a dessert. Snacks must be eaten 3 hours after and 3 hours before a meal. Desserts can be eaten with a meal of the same type(S or E). What we would normally call a dessert(cake, pie, cookies, etc.) is probably really a snack on THM. Adding a snack to a meal will probably overload you with too many carbs and/or fats. Just watch those yummy ideas on Pinterest called desserts. They may really be snacks. Desserts in the THM book may be eaten with a meal.
  6. I'm having issues with dessert! I love ALL of them! I'm just not sure how to determine serving sizes! I feel like I over eat dessert, and maybe that's why my weight is stalling. Any tips??
    1. Hi Abby, First make sure that you are eating good S and E meals and that you are not crossing over with those. If you are doing that fine, then you may be overdoing S desserts. You could try keeping all your snacks and desserts FP for a while and see if that helps. Fix any of my FP cakes to eat as snacks or dessert OR any other FP snack. Hope that helps!
  7. I should have read the comments before I made the cottage cheese FP meal for myself and hubby... I used the measurements for Cottage berry whip... 1/2 c each and had them for breakfast... thinking it did not look like enough food I added 2 Tblsp flax seed meal and still did not feel like I ate a meal... then looked it up in the book... over did the flax amount (silly me for reading the serving size on the label)... so I may have turned what I was thinking would be an E into a crossover... still learning. Great tips, love the sauce one! I use Kirkland spagetti sauce (yesterday on 2 finely sliced with a veggie peeler zucchinis for lunch) and sometimes do not get it all used in time :(
  8. Tip #7 question - what are the measurements for cottage cheese and berries for FP meal versus FP snack? I'm sure it is in the book, but can't find it quickly. Thanks for sharing! I've had the book for 5 days and am overwhelmed, but want to start eating by plan NOW!
    1. I usually use about the same amount of berries and cottage cheese. For a snack, just use smaller amounts if you want. For example, for a meal you may use 1 cup berries and 1 cup cottage cheese. For a snack maybe use 1/2 cup of each. Hope that helps! Welcome to the THM journey!
  9. Thanks for all the great ideas! I am loving the pizza sauce one, especially since I always seem to waste it. Now I can save the sauce and my money! =D
  10. Thanks - but am part THM (as much as I can) - I have food sensitivies/allergies (Egg & Dairy -the base of the diet!) and I can't stand the aftertaste of Stevia or Ethrytol (yuck!), Joseph's pitas/and lav. breads my body rejected VERY quickly so not an option for me. So, I did THM last year and had to quit after a while when diet fatigue made my body ill because I could only eat certain foods that were plan approved over and over. Finally my body said ENOUGH -so I had to quit. I'd like to do it whole plan again -if I could - and am trying but have to be careful so I don't fatigue out my body with the same foods. How about some posts of some fun foods - especially maybe treats and snacks that don't include allergen foods? Some menu plan ideas would be great. Is it possible? (dairy/egg free??) that's what I can't seem to find. But I'm also not on FB -so I can't see the site! Maybe even a series of posts on doing THM with restrictions? Thanks!!
    1. Actually here is my list of restrictions that make THM difficult: No Dairy (migraines) No Eggs (allergy) No Stevia/Ethrytol (occasional Xylotol ok) No Joseph's foods
      1. Hi again Wendy, There is a THM Facebook group for Allergen Free THMers. I posted asking for others that deal with these issues, if they could share their blog posts. One lady, Amanda, posted and said that she has a lot of information on her blog about doing THM with restrictions like yours, including no gluten. Here is a link to one of her posts: She said to feel free to contact her through her blog and she would be happy to help in any way she can. I hope that helps Wendy!
    2. Hi Wendy, Wow, that would be tough to do THM with those restrictions. I'll have to do some thinking on that before I do any posts. Since I don't have those restrictions it might be hard, but I'll see what I can find out. Maybe I can find others doing THM with those restrictions that I can post links to their blogs. I'll see what I can do!
  11. You mentioned using a cookie scoop. Is that a lot smaller than an ice cream scoop? Thanks!
    1. Hi Amy, Yes it is smaller than an ice scream scoop. You can find these smaller scoops at a kitchen store, sometimes at Walmart.

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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, the quality that helps you to go on in spite of all.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope for the hopeful

I would not trade this piece of paper for a billion dollars. Not even a billion and one dollars. A trillion, maybe, but not a billion.

Dad is on the left under Z, his written moniker for Carnez 🙂

My siblings and I grew up playing various board games. Eventually, Scrabble became one of my favorites. It took me years to become good enough to win against my father. Many, many years. It was one of those gentle yet repetitive lessons that was more about doing rather than being told what to do. Back then I thought I was just improving my vocabulary. In retrospect, I realize I learned more about strategy, persistence, and to resist being impulsive.

Any time he and I challenged each other, we always took on the challenge. If I ever refused a game, I do not think it was often. Even though I knew I might lose, I always hoped I might win. That hope bridged the gap between losing and winning. There were several close games over the years, but he was always the victor. The day I finally won, I kept the score paper and added the date. Although 1999 would become a critical year, my sole win was a personal milestone. I do not think I was a sore winner, but I know I was beaming with pride at least for that day.

I reflect on myself now and why I am the way I am as I knock on the door of 40 years young. I am overly optimistic. I consider the challenges I have faced both in the past and present. I have endured seemingly insurmountable struggles, including financial, mental, and physical. One of my go-to strategies when I am faced with hardship is to ask myself some of the basics:

Is it a matter of life or death?

Do I have food, shelter, and life’s necessities for my fur kids and myself?

Have I faced this situation before in a similar way? If so, what was the outcome?

When I frame my problems with reason, I realize something wonderful: I have a 100% success rate. Things may not always turn out perfect or how I intended, but overall they do turn out the way I need them to.

As I look at the score paper, I think about that game with my dad. For the first time, I am seeing the progression of the tally he kept since it is in his handwriting. In simply looking at the numbers, I envision the thought process of 17 year old Kim. Much of my logic then still works the same now, at least when I am faced with a challenge.

My first move yielded me less than half of his score. This was common and never a reason to panic. It was just the beginning. He dominated much of the start and I was playing catch-up. The adage “slow and steady” comes to mind. I was in college, approaching my first degree and growing in knowledge. (I will admit the Scrabble dictionary always helped!) I recall one of my freshman instructors correcting some of my writing. I made some novice mistakes, using too many phrases instead of thinking through what I intended to say. I needed to learn to convey a topic and let the idea flow seamlessly. I still have much to learn.

Use strategy. Resist impulse.

In Scrabble, it is easy to find a word. It is easy to place a word. However, to place a word that is going to garner the most points, that is the goal.

Find your spot. Make it count.

I began to close the gap. Halfway through, I tied his score. In two more moves I netted a 7 letter, 110-point word that gave me the lead that I would maintain for the rest of the game. Oh if only I remembered what the word was! If smart phones were around then I am certain I would have taken a pic of the finished game. I have to laugh again at the final score of the second game.

Listen and learn.

As I gained wisdom from experience, I learned to watch more. Where would he place his tiles, and why? Even outside the game, I became more aware. When I would observe those who are more knowledgeable with a certain skill, I learn from that expertise. I mimic. I grow. I grow…from losing. From making mistakes. From being plain terrible.

Then there was chess, a totally different story. I knew how the pieces moved. I began to try and develop strategy. I could never beat him at chess. But I never conceded. If he was still around and I kept practicing, I would probably be just good enough now to maybe win. Maybe.

Hope for the hopeful.

Several months later it was time to graduate. I did not want to walk the stage, so I did not. I was only half way through to my B.A. in Marketing. I set up my classes in such a way to earn my A.B.A at the two-year mark and keep going.

Right before that though, my dad was also approaching his degree. He took C.A.D. and photography classes. He ensured he set up his classes so that just before I graduated, he graduated! I laugh now in happy reflection when he told me he had to make sure he earned his degree before me. I was not allowed to beat him twice in one year.

Remember the basics.

When I look at the goals I have now and anticipate future challenges, I think back on simple lessons my parents, teachers, and other elders taught me. I admit I am a chronic, anxiety-fueled over-thinker. But this thing called life does not get to pass me by. I have needed to step out of my head and step into my reality. More so than stepping into it, I need to mold and sculpt it the way it was meant for me. Strange how sometimes the way back is actually the way forward. I no longer get to live in the past. I get to live in the present and plan and hope for the future.

Rise to the occasion.

There is one last thing that I am hopeful for. Around three months ago one of my favorite quartz crystal earrings came up missing. I hope the cats borrowed it and it will turn up somewhere around the house eventually. I hope.

Thank you so much for reading. Keep it groovy!

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Sandblasted 3-dimensional signs are a large part of our day-to-day production, we use various substrates from HDU (high-density urethane) to real all 'heart vertical grain redwood" and cedar, we never use construction grade redwood for sandblasted signs.

There are many other materials we will blast for signage purposes, a list of some of them is lower down this page.

HDU, which can be carved or sandblasted is a very versatile medium to work with and lasts for a long time. Thus giving you, the customer a higher quality sign that will last much longer; (indefinitely if it is kept painted) than its wooden equivalent.

The Millstone 4H Camp sign here is an example of sandblasted HDU with a woodgrain effect and appliqued prismatic letters.

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 Hawkins &Hawkins have again sandblasted HDU signs with a wood grain effect, and Saddlebrook is a 3" thick sandblasted HDU sign also with wood grain effect and appliqued letters and graphical elements

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Classic has made some signs we are very proud of with different layers and types of sandblasting, from multi-level sandblasting to woodgrain behind hand carved appliques and letters on the same sign, which really gives a wonderful 3D effect. Our family and staff have designed and built some most unusual sandblasted signs which can be found all over the country.

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We can design your 3d sandblasted sign project for you to keep on budget and give you your business or organization the perfect sign.

The most common background textures created when sandblasting HDU dimensional signs are "stone" (chapel sandblasted sign) and "woodgrain" (Etheridge sandblasted sign) effect; the first is what high-density urethane looks like when sandblasted normally. The second "woodgrain" is created when the sign is sandblasted through piano wire stretched across the face of the sign.

elite homes sandblasted hdu sign with steel skeleton reinforcing classic signs nc 200x213We built our first wood grain tool 26 years ago after the owner gave up pouring the urethane to create a material that had grain in it. It wasn't that he didn't succeed it's just that each sheet of HDU would have been 11 times the price of a standard production sheet, it would have made some great signs but a bit too pricey. Our first grain tool was 3 ft. across; since then we have built them to accommodate most signs up to 10.5 ft wide.

Some of the materials we sandblast for signage

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  • Redwood
  • Old-growth Pine
  • Most hardwoods (softwoods are hard to blast
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  • Cement
  • Bricks
  • Pavers
  • Marble
  • Field Stone
  • Glass
  • HDU (high-Density Urethane)

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