Plant-based cuisine

I’ve been trying some plant-based recipes (3 times per week). As much as I enjoy meat, this food makes me feel healthier.

Fulfillment can make us feel like we’re really living. It brings joy and helps us meet our goals.

This shows the power of the mind. A dream can fuel and encourage our ambitions.

When hope is deferred the heart is sick. Think of how the disciples felt when Jesus was crucified. They believed he was the Messiah, coming to deliver Israel (instead of from sin, they thought it was from Roman oppression).

Their hope was deferred when the stone was still in place on Saturday. Their hearts were sick. What joy awaited them on Easter Sunday when the tomb was found empty. Over 500 of his followers witnessed his appearance afterwards. It was a hope deferred but a dream fulfilled all at once. They were not yet delivered from Rome but fulfillment was attained on a greater level.

Our new nature is provided for through the Savior. The old things pass away and all things become new.

We can find resurrection life even in a sin sick world through Christ Jesus the LORD.

Of course, our earthly bodies won’t live forever but our inheritance which is kept in heaven for us will never perish.

Has your dream reached fulfillment? If not, maybe a heavenly perspective will help as we rejoice in His forgiveness of our sins. -Teresa #livinghope

Proverbs 13:12-14 (NLT)

¹² Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.

¹³ People who despise advice are asking for trouble;
    those who respect a command will succeed.

¹⁴ The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain;
    those who accept it avoid the snares of death.Read full chapter

1 Peter 1:3-5 (ESV)

Born Again to a Living Hope

[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [4] to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, [5] who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.