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Use the MyPlate to Make Healthy Meals

Creating healthy meals for yourself and your family can be a daunting prospect. We often hear conflicting information on what is considered “healthy” these days. Well, look no further! The MyPlate is a reliable guidance system to help you develop balanced plates at every meal.

This past Saturday, my church Sunday School class plus a few more went to see the new Lion King movie at Malco Extreme Theatre in Owensboro. The movie was fantastic! The graphics in this updated version are second to none!

Solomon Ortiz said, “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students” (https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/teacher). Locally, students return to school next week. Hopefully, everyone had a restful break and is ready for a new school year.

I’d planned this time to write on something else, but something told me (God’s Spirit) I needed to write on LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13).

The King James version in the new testament begins, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have met love, I have become as sounding brass on a tinkling symbol.”

There is a quote by Elizabeth Peters that pretty much sums up the personality of a cat.  “There is no other creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat.  The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal or better yet as the superior it knows itself to be.”

I’ve written about my cat, Figaro, before.  The narrative usually follows the path of his antics, his aggravating other cats or his general non-acknowledgement of the hand who feeds him.  This story is different.  It is about Fig as a sixteen-year-old, half-blind, badly wounded cat.

From time to time, we are asked about the place of the Ten Commandments in modern times. Some say they will be saved by following the Ten Commandments. What is the truth? Put simply, we do not live under the Ten Commandments today because we are living under the New Testament. The book of Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament is done away (7:12-14, 8:13, 9:15-17). The Old Testament (including the Ten Commandments) was given to a specific group of people, the Jews (Ex. 19:3-6; Deut. 5:2-5).

 HAVE NO IDEAL- I am by no means a member of the “language police,” for I have been known to be less than formal in my own spoken engagements. I have used ain't in conversation, I say ant for aunt and on more than one occasion have been guilty of using several more countrified colloquialisms and I still struggle with knowing when, whom should be used instead of, who.

 The anticipated special session to tackle public pensions has come to a close, and the General Assembly has passed a new plan to provide relief for quasi-governmental agencies.

HAVE NO IDEAL

Most everyone knows the song “I Love Rock & Roll” done by Joan Jett. Did you know that was a cover?