Just checking in to say :bye: So you are a pilot. Very cool :good: How was your free breakfast at Denny’s? Lately I haven’t been eating anything exciting ... I don’t have an appetite. Just doing chicken soups or eating bite size frosted mini wheat cereal. Tonight though I’m making grilled Chicken Caesar Salad but instead of Romaine lettuce it’s iceberg. Free breakfast at Denny's was good, then had a free entree at Olive Garden. Going out for BBQ pork ribs tonight, onion rings and cole slaw. My daughter made a killer chicken noodle soup which I also had a couple of nights ago. TR Wow I’m happy to hear both freebie meals on Veteran’s Day were delicious. I love Olive Garden meals. Last time I was there was at Myrtle Beach in 2010. Someone gave me the recipe for Olive Garden Chicken Tortellini soup a few years ago and I made it from scratch and it tasted just like the restaurant. Sooo good. I’m not sure where the recipe is though ... still unpacking. What made your daughter’s homemade chicken soup a killer? Any special secret ingredients added? Glad she is taking care and spoiling you with many delicious meals! :good: We bought a house together. They live upstairs and my wife and I live downstairs. So there's a lot of interaction. She started her family late so my wife and I spent 20 years giving time, attention and meager finances for my first daughter and her family. Now it was time to focus on my youngest daughter's family! She often cooks for me. Should the Lord tarry, they will inherit the house and the payments, till then it will serve as our retirement home! TR That was a very smart move. Good arrangements for you both! :good: I think its fun to have family so close. When my parents newly married they went halvsies with my mom’s parents and bought a 2 family home. It had a basement and an attic too. My parents lived on the first floor and grand parents with their 2 kids on the 2nd floor. Then when my aunt got married they converted the attic into a bedroom, a kitchen area and living room. She had to go down the steps though to used either bathrooms on the 2nd floor or 1st floor. She was able to save enough money to buy a home by living in the attic first. My grandparents enjoyed having all their kids and grandkids in the same house. Then my aunt purchased a home a few blocks away and my parents were going to buy right next door to her but the seller wouldn’t come down in price and my parent’s still owned half of that 2 family home. So we moved 20 minutes away “in the country” where the homes were cheaper. It was a resort area with a lake for those in NYC to vacation at. Later on we saw why the sellers didn’t want to come down in price because the Lord arranged for the new person who bought next door to my aunt to be a believer. She was the one who witnessed to my aunt and prayed over her and never gave up even though my aunt was fresh to her and said I can’t give up praying to Mary and would open up her back screen porch windows and blast the Beetles “Let It Be” over to her house. :mdrmdr: That dear lady never gave up praying for my aunt’s salvation. And about a year later my aunt got saved and then shared the Gospel with the rest of our family. We all got saved except for my aunt’s ex-husband, her oldest son and 2 grandkids. I’m still :prayer-hands: for them. Today I have to go back to Home Depot and get 1 more gallon of paint for the basement walls so I will stop and order the lunch special - 2 slices of pizza and soda for $4.00 at a local pizzeria in that town. Its good pizza ... taste like Northern NJ/NYC version. :good: That's a great story, Geri. So "what's for dinner" actually nourishes our soul in this post. Thanks for sharing it. Better than breakfast even, and wonderful to start Sunday with. And I'll say a prayer for your resistant relatives too. It's wonderful when God's goodness is demonstrated by His children. We all will have our own stories to share when we get to Heaven, but they will all glorify God in the end! TR Hmmm my post said “its awaiting moderation”. I’m going to try one more time ... Oh that is so sweet to say ... “kind of like Chicken Soup for the Soul” stories. Thank you for your prayers. My aunt’s ex-husband is Joe, his son is John and the 2 grandkids are Nicholas and Rachel. I compare my grandfather with his brother Phil and the rest of his siblings. You clearly see the blessing was bestowed on my grandfather lineage vs. his older brother and his 3 younger sisters. I know their dad (my great grandfather) must have gotten saved because on his deathbed my aunt, was a teenager, (wasn’t a believer then until she reached 33) and recalls him saying “I hear the sound of beautiful music (violins) and he wasn’t afraid of dying.” So apparently someone must have talked to him about Jesus. He had odd jobs and one was a shoe shiner so perhaps he received not only a tip but a Bible Tract as well? Sadly, I don’t think his wife made heaven. My grandfather told me she was a nasty person and would often beat him up for the stupidest things. For instance my grandfather went for a swim in the Passaic River (back then it wasn’t polluted) and he got a beating for that and yet her oldest son Phil could do no wrong and was the favorite child. Phil - the oldest brother I heard was a mean spirit cop that would often beat the black people. He had 6 kids - only his oldest daughter, Grace, became a believer on her deathbed. My aunt gave her the Gospel. That’s it. He had no grandkids. Only 2 daughters out of the 6 married but that was late in life. Tony - (my grandfather) he and my grandmother got saved. All 3 of his children - got saved. 7 out of 8 grandchildren got saved and my aunt had 2 miscarriages so technically 9 out of 10 grandchildren are heaven bound. 14 out of 16 great grandchildren got saved and 2 miscarriages so technically 16 out of 18 great grandchildren are heaven bound. 6 great great grandchildren are in Christian homes under the age of 10 ... hopefully they will become believers. Rose - his sister - couldn’t have kids. Adopted a daughter called Rosetta. Not sure if Rosetta made heaven or not. My aunt did speak to her before she died. Rosetta’s 2 kids and grandkids are unsaved. Rose died a catholic and trusted in her works - she went to mass every day. However, her husband Tony never went to church and on his deathbed in the hospital Rose called up my aunt and said please visit my husband and tell him about the Bible. My aunt said I will be right over. She gave Tony the Gospel and he said the sinners prayer before he died! Mary - his sister - was always kind to my grandparents. She claimed to be a believer. She had 2 children - oldest child, Freddy claims to be a believer as well as his son. His son died while saving someone else from drowning. The sister, Rosemary, refuses the Gospel. She calls Born Again believers loose cannons. Rosemary’s husband died an unbeliever and at his funeral we met his side of the family. Guest what ... they were born again! Rosemary has 2 children who are unsaved. Nancy - his sister was mean to him. She became bitter to God because she left her baby on the kitchen table and went to get a diaper and the baby rolled off the table and hit the floor and became an epileptic afterwards. Here it was her own stupid fault but she blamed God the rest of her life. Her and her husband died unbelievers. Both her daughters are unbelievers - one is an atheist. So there you have the lineage of my grandfather vs. his siblings. Oh and when Phil died ... at his funeral his cruel sisters Rose and Nancy said to my grandfather “the wrong brother died”. My grandfather’s response was “what do you want from me, God didn’t want me yet” and this was before he got saved. But this was the mental abuse he faced with his family. In spite of his mother abusing him ... my grandfather still showed her respect and visited every Sunday with his family. Perhaps the Lord honored that because its a mystery of why my grandfather lineage was showered with the blessing over his siblings. I’m just so grateful to be in his lineage and to be saved! I agree T.R. its going to be grand hearing the testimonies of all believers! I hope there is a library in heaven that has the books on the life of each person and how they got saved. :yes: Oh that is so sweet to say ... so glad you were encouraged by the testimony ... “kind of like Chicken Soup for the Soul” stories. Thank you both for your prayers! My aunt’s ex-husband is Joe, his son is John and the 2 grandkids are Nicholas and Rachel. I think you will enjoy this tidbit ... Here is a picture showing her favoritism between boys. She has her arm around her first born and my grandfather was a baby and she shows lack of concern he could fall off that pillar. Here’s the bio on each of the siblings ... Phil - (the oldest brother) I heard was a mean spirit cop that would often beat up the black people. He had 6 kids - only his oldest daughter, Grace, became a believer on her deathbed. My aunt gave her the Gospel. That’s it. He had no grandkids. Only 2 daughters out of the 6 married but that was late in life. Tony - (my grandfather) he and my grandmother got saved. All 3 of his children - got saved. 7 out of 8 grandchildren got saved and my aunt had 2 miscarriages so technically 9 out of 10 grandchildren are heaven bound. 14 out of 16 great grandchildren got saved and 2 miscarriages so technically 16 out of 18 great grandchildren are heaven bound. 6 great great grandchildren are in Christian homes under the age of 10 ... hopefully they will become believers. Rose - his sister - couldn’t have kids. Adopted a daughter called Rosetta. Not sure if Rosetta made heaven or not. My aunt did speak to her before she died. Rosetta’s 2 kids and grandkids are unsaved. Mary - his sister - was always kind to my grandparents. She claimed to be a believer. She had 2 children - oldest child, Freddy claims to be a believer as well as his son. His son died while saving someone else from drowning. Her daughter, Rosemary, refuses the Gospel. She calls Born Again believers loose cannons. Rosemary’s husband died an unbeliever and at his funeral we met his side of the family. Guest what ... they were born again! Rosemary has 2 children who are unsaved. Nancy - his youngest sister was mean to him. She became bitter to God because she left her baby on the kitchen table and went to get a diaper and the baby rolled off the table and hit the floor and became an epileptic afterwards. Here it was her own stupid fault but she placed blame on God the rest of her life. Her and her husband died unbelievers. Both her daughters are unbelievers - one is an atheist. So there you have the lineage of my grandfather vs. his siblings. Oh and when Phil died ... at his funeral his cruel sisters Rose and Nancy said to my grandfather “the wrong brother died”. My grandfather’s response was “what do you want from me, God didn’t want me yet” and this was before he got saved. But this was the mental abuse he faced with his family. In spite of his mother abusing him ... my grandfather still showed her respect and visited every Sunday and brought over his wife and kids. Perhaps the Lord honored that because its a mystery of why my grandfather lineage was showered with all the blessing over his siblings. I’m just so grateful to be in his lineage and to be saved! My grandfather, his sister Rose, Mary, Nancy Wow! I'm impressed Geri. I could never mount that kind of interest in my ancestry. I figure I'll meet some / all? / of my ancestry who were saved and enjoy discussing Jesus presence in their lives. I wonder if I'll actually become close friends with any of my forebears. (That'll be an improvement because at the moment I don't even know the names of those three bears.)
I’m fascinated by the comparison between my grandfather lineage to that of his brother Phil and the rest of his siblings. You clearly see the blessing was bestowed on my grandfather. I know their dad (my great grandfather see picture) must have gotten saved because on his deathbed my aunt, was a teenager, (wasn’t a believer then until she reached 33) and recalls him saying “I hear the sound of beautiful music (violins) and he wasn’t afraid of dying.” So apparently someone must have talked to him about Jesus. He had odd jobs and one was a shoe shiner in NYC so perhaps he received not only a tip but a Bible tract as well? Sadly, I don’t think his wife made heaven. My grandfather told me she was a nasty person and would often beat him up for the stupidest things. For instance my grandfather went for a swim in the Passaic River (back then it wasn’t polluted) and he got a beating for that and yet her oldest son Phil could do no wrong and was the favorite child.
Yes, T.R. I agree ... its going to be grand hearing testimonies up in heaven and I hope there is also a library with the lineage books recording the life of each believer and how they came to a saving knowledge. :yes:
