God is Good

Where do I begin? It's been a wonderful week. I'm seeing God's hand in things every day. Here's just one example: Clifford wanted to clean out some things in the attic (things that have been there for 20-28 years). Found old patterns, suitcases, bags of clothes, fabric, Chocolates by You paperwork... One of the suitcases felt heavy so he suggested I check it. Opened it to find a few books, magazines, patterns & two copies of Delight in My Kitchen Cookbook I had done for Wahiawa Christian Women's Club in 1980. Picked out some of the magazines & cookbooks to look over later. My copy is browned and well worn and have you ever had a banana sit & rot & get juicy? My cookbook had sat in that unattended banana juice and the smell lingers.

Got an e-mail from Mary Beth Lindeman (Nancy Kekoa's younger sister) and she shared that today would be her mom's 100th birthday. I replied and told her how our family celebrated my mom's & sister Margot's birthdays by cooking foods they made, talk about the things they said & treasured things that they left behind. Also mentioned Vincent Price's Prune Honey Nut Bread a recipe that Nancy had submitted for the cookbook that her Aunt Barb Haskins had given to her. I just made a double batch for us a couple of weeks ago and it was ever so yummy.

She replied back and had no recollection of the bread recipe but found it on the internet. I am so amazed at how God brings things and people together at the right time. Gonna send one of the cookbooks to her as a birthday gift in honor of Venita Jayne--found her hardtack recipe on page 90. As one thought reminds me of another--the open houses/potlucks that we had at Wahiawa Church of the Nazarene while Hotch & Nancy were there have permanently shaped who I am and still becoming. They were my example of husband & wife, parents, friends, mentors, nurturers, Christians, servants. What a joy to see the Kekoa kids serving the Lord at New Hope, Kamehameha School, grandchildren singing and being such magnets for the Lord.