Meal Planning with Connie

The holiday season is here and along with it all the hustle and bustle that make meal planning a real challenge.  We will be eating from the fridge and pantry this week, trying to finish up leftovers and clearing the shelves to make space for Christmas cooking and baking ingredients.   If I cook anything new, I'll post the recipe! Be sure to check out all the great meal plans at   Meal Plan Monday ! I pray you all have a wonderful week, as we begin in earnest to prepare for the celebrating of Christ's birth! Many blessing and happy cookin' ~ Connie

It is the first Sunday of Advent. We began our Christmas season with these beautiful verses from Luke this morning and will decorate our sanctuary, as a body of believers, with our annual Hanging of the Green ceremony tonight, all in celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Luke 1:30-35 30But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."  34"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?"  35The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36Even Elizabeth your relat