Day 8: AWESOMENESS:: Making Chia Jam or Frost on the Strawberries

The frost is on the strawberries!

Isn't that AWESOME?

I wish I had fresh fruit to use, but these strawberries were frozen and needed to be used, and I needed to make some Chia Jam.  I love Chia jam!  Not only is it quick and easy to make, it's low in sugar and very vegetarian.

The berries are cooking as I write.
They are softening.  When I go back down to check on them, I will smoosh them up.  At that point I will add the Chia seeds, taste the magnificent brew, then add a small amount of sugar!

 Oh. My. The Deliciousness!

The jam will cool and thicken because of the chia seeds!  How AMAZING and AWESOME is that!  

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Index

 

 

Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome? 

 

Day 3::Three Beautiful Things This Week. 

 

Day 4:  Happy Birthday, Pixie Marie

  Day 5: I Heart Macro: More Awesomeness in Color!

 

Day 6: Awesomeness in a Hospital Gift Store 

 

Day 8: I Am Changing!

 

So, it Begins:: 31 Days of Awesome! Today, the Simple Blessings

31 Days of Pure

 AWE-SOME-NESS!

I hope to share with you the PEOPLE & THINGS I think are::

AWESOME!

 

The Simple Blessings

 

"Even in the simple things, the blessings will blind us with their joy or be hidden from our sight.

We must choose to find them and be grateful for each blessing!"

Each morning brings new sights and sounds.  Each day brings a new beginning, a renewal.  What we didn't see yesterday, we can see today with the clarity of morning.  All we need to do is open our hearts to these blessings.  Even in our darkest times, a return to the simple, the ordinary frees us from the complications of our daily lives.  The simple awareness of the smell of a good cup of coffee, focusing on the taste of homemade jam or jelly or filling our lungs with the scent of the day:  these are the simple, ordinary blessings in our lives. 

Each blessing can be a fleeting moment to enjoy or an hour to savor.  Having time to spend with our families, our children, our friends, opens a door on to which we can cling or release.  Each moment in these specks of time can be frozen in our thoughts to reopen when the flowing waters of blessings seem distant and far away.  Not everyday can be a day full of overwhelming joy.  Life is not that way.  In each life, in each time, there is both joy and sadness, elation and disappointment.  Life is balanced.  There are mountains to climb that seem to reach into heaven.  There valleys so low that the human spirit is challenged to its limits.  Yet, even in the darkness, there is good.  The darkness which we feared becomes the sacred darkness of night that allows us to embrace that which we feared and rest in the softness of sleep, ready to restore and refresh us for the newborn day.   

When the ordinary becomes the blessed, then we can revel in the simple which opens our senses and our hearts to the day.  The burden becomes lighter.  We are able to travel further on less.  When a leaf on a tree makes us smile at the wonder of nature, then we begin to see the blessed in our days.  When we open our hearts to the ordinary, the simple becomes blessed.  The song of a bird, the fire of a sunset, the sigh of a child: each of these blesses us even on dark days.  As we open our eyes, we find the

AWESOMENESS 

that reminds us that our journey here is filled with more than we can hold in our thoughts, in our hearts, and in our desires.  Stop.  Breathe.  Then move on with your day. 

I challenge you!

Embrace the blessings you find.

Write down your blessings and savor the memories.

You will find yourself growing in 

GRATITUDE,

STRENGTH,

AND

COURAGE!

YOU WILL ALSO FIND THAT

YOU 

ARE

AWESOME!

"Every day might not be good, but every day has something good!"

Deb  Batten