For the ones we love...

I gave away Grandma's pie crust recipe.

I don't know that Grandma keeps it a secret. After all, she told me! However, it is special to me, and thought it should be cherished. We'd gone to our friends' farm the day before and picked a few bushels of apples. There were tons of apples in my kitchen, and I needed to share. I made a phone call.

"Shannon, bring your pie plate and come on over and make pies with me!"

So she came right over with her pie plate, and she brought the most lovely and most effective apple corer I've ever seen, as well. We were able to whip out pies in nothing flat!

As we were peeling apples, she told me she makes a horrible pie crust, that her husband won't eat her pies because of it. I told her not to worry, and we rolled out Grandma's. We piled in our apples and laid the top crust in the cutest lattice pattern. She was thankful for the crust lesson and the apple pie she'd have for dessert later.

As she left, I wrote down the recipe for her.

Yeah, I gave away my treasured recipe, but there are just some things you do your best friends, just because you love them.

4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7 NIV


He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:32