This morning we where talking about how divorce effects kids, and how sometimes it can be awkward for them when their parents start dating again.  So below are datingrules written by kids of divorce:

If you’re interested in dating someone with kids, it’s important to take the children’s feelings into consideration. Here’s some dating advice from real kids whose parents are divorced. This comes from Match.com, and family life-coach Mark Hughes:

• First: “Don’t be a goober!” A 12-year-old named Mark defines “gooberosity” as acting goofy, showing off, and fake-laughing. Basically, trying so hard to be liked, you look like a doofus. Moira, who’s 17, says it’s more important to be respected by your date’s children than to be liked. After all, you’re dating their parent, not trying to become their friend.  
• Another dating rule written by kids of divorce: “Don’t kiss and cuddle in front of me.” That advice is from 15-year-old Cameron, but all the kids who came up with these dating rules agreed. Kids find public displays of affection between a parent and their date embarrassing, inappropriate and kind of gross. Beth, who’s 18, suggests you treat your date more like a friend than a significant other around the kids.  
• Also, remember  that you’re NOT the parent. 17-year-old Zach says you should stay out of discussions involving curfews or clothing choices – even if the person you’re dating tries to include you. As the relationship develops, you may choose to be diplomatic and make suggestions, but don’t tell the kids what to do.  
• Be respectful. 12-year-old Mike says you should treat him the way you want to be treated. In other words, listen when a kid speaks, don’t tease them, and offer encouragement and sincere praise, not false flattery. Mike says that when he feels a date is dissing him, he retaliates by being difficult. 
• Give it time. 17-year-old Mary says thatkids really don’t want to see their parents with someone else, and the more you try to force them to like you, the more they’re going to resist. Instead, try the less-is-more approach. Gradually get to know the family and go out and do things together as a group. Bottom line: You can’t rush any relationship, and when it involves an entire family, you have to go even more slowly.

Today we had Lysa TerKeurst & Renee Swope on the show to talk about the KSBJ’s Girl’s Night Out.

Click on the links below to listen to the interview…

Interview with Proverbs 31 part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

My Ester Year continues.

Easter is coming and I’ve been thinking about the newness (if that’s even a word) that it offers us.  It’s perfect for those of us Sistahs on this Ester journey.  Jesus’ death and burial and then His resurrection was the end of what had been in a world where sacrifices were given over and over again to atone…now, this side of Easter - Jesus said on the cross. ”It is finished”  The sacrifice has been given, once and for all (who will accept it).  It begins the new with a resurrected Jesus and the gift of the Holy Spirit as a comforter and guide.  We are NEW, with new mercies every day. 

As we take this journey together, we’ll have days when the new mercies will be needed to start again. Grace is given by Christ who purchased our grace with his own blood.  If we are healed by the stripes He endured, then my sistahs, we must endeavor to live healed lives with healed hearts full of grace for others and for OURSELVES!  Have a beautiful Easter and remember Ester days mean we’re beautiful and getting more beautiful every day!

Easter proves it! You are loved!! Sistah Susie OHere’s something to encourage you today with this Ester year..it comes from Philippians 3:13-14.  “One thing I do forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as a goal the price promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.”  Beth Moore’s book  A Quick Word with Beth Moore (scriptures and quotations from Breaking Free…offers us some real encouragement as we try and do over and start anew.  From this scripture, Beth offers this thought….God’s Word clearly expreses what a good and effective teacher the past can be.  But the past will be a good teacher only if we will approach it as a good student, from the perspective of what we can gain and how God can use it for His glory.  And if I may add my own little note to Beth’s it would be this….we learn what we can and we let go and leave behind that which only weights us down.  I’ve read a number of lessons through the years, but I don’t still carry the books every day from which I got those lessons…carrying all of that is too heavy.  I carry only the lessons, not the baggage.  As we prepare and become more beautiful for the King…we should lose the baggage that can hold us back.Okay! I promised you ways that we could make this a special Ester year – and now here is a chance for Susie O’s Sistahs to take their Ester year on the road.  We’re going to go on a  mission trip to Honduras this summer and you could come along!     I’m going to be taking about 75 to 100 of my closest friends and Sistahs to the capital of Honduras.  It’s about a four hour plane trip to get there from Houston, and once we’re there – we’ll be able to help with some construction projects, some Bible studies with some of the local families and getting the chance to use what we’ve learned about ourselves to talk with others about Jesus!  I’m so excited about this chance for all of us to take our Ester year on the road.  Even if you can’t make the physical trip, we’ll make sure you’re part of this work, but I’d love to be surrounded by beautiful Sistahs along with all of the familie that are going to come with us! Yes! You can bring your whole family.  If the money is an issue, your sistahs will join in prayer to help you get the support.  We’ll have some ideas for getting support for this trip from people in your church and community  too. Ester Year continues  

Well, it’s officially a week into the Ester year and I’ve already needed the reminder that I’m going to say positive things to myself.  You know how it goes, you’ve put on that pair of jeans right out of the dryer and it’s like break dancing to try and get those things on and zipped up.  I immediately stood up and started talking to myself like I was a puppy that had puddled on the carpet, everything negative and stopping just short of the preverbial rolled up newspaper on the noggin!  I stopped in the middle of the tyraid and remembered – you wouldn’t talk to anyone else this way.  Stop. I did.  I found ways to remember how to speak positives into my own heart.  Afterall, preparing for the King, you wouldn’t talk to a potential queen that way!   Besides, once I had the jeans on, they stretched a little and I hadn’t gained anything afterall.  Wow! will I really let a waistband determine who I am for the day, good girl or bad girl?  Not any more.    I read Ester again this weekend.  It’s interesting that she was chosen for her beauty and made MORE beautiful in that year.  You know what that means for all of us that are walking this Ester year out together?  It means we ARE beautiful.  We’re not “whatever” and on our way to being beautiful, we ARE beautiful and working on becoming MORE beautiful.  So, let’s choose today to act like a beautiful woman.  We are going to BE what we ARE and are becoming.  I AM beautiful.  Say it.  come on, you have to begin to say it – don’t just think it…say it.  I am beautiful.

Day Three

Last night I was at the Beth Moore Bible study and the Praise and worship team was singing their hearts out…there was a line in the song they sang that said “one little word and he is defeated!”  It was referring to a little word from God and the Devil is done!  I got to thinking about that, one little word could defeat that which has been defeating me for years!  So, I thought, “what word?” and then it came to me….the word for my (our)Ester year is “His”   I am HIS.  When the devil, or the defeating messages come into our mind and hearts, we will speak the words ” I am His“!   When I think about the failures or even just the little mess ups I will remember that “I am His“.  When I begin to think of the loneliness, of being single, or unfulfilled desires, I will remember, “His”.  I am not alone, I am “His” and He is not ever going to leave me.

So, my Susie’s Sistahs in our Ester journey this day – our word to defeat all that defeats us, that leaves us feeling less than the chosen one of the King is simply – HIS!

Day Two and I’m working on a plan for us to take this journey together.  We’re going to be working on the outward appearance, with diet and exercise.  We are going to be working on the Spiritual side with study out of Esther and what we can learn from her story in the Bible. And we’re going to be working on finding ways to be our own best friend.  One of the things I’m working on in my Esther year is self-talk.  You know we would never talk mean or unkindly to someone else in our life.  I’ve never stood in front of a friend of mine and said, you look awful today – you’re overweight and you are a mess!  Yet, I don’t know about you, but standing in front of my own reflection in the bathroom mirror, I’ve said almost exactly that.  Just like those words would be killer to my friend they are killer to me and my soul.  If you’re doing that to yourself, you’re killing your own spirit and soul.   When Esther was being made more beautiful in her year, I would venture to say no one in the Kings’ service would have dared to talk to her that way, even if they thought it was a motivational lecture.  They would likely hear “Off with their head”if they did.  Okay, we aren’t going to scream “off with your head” – but we’re going to all agree that as we take this year long journey together, we will stop saying hurtful, destructive things to ourselves.  No more mean talk into the mirror or into our heart or head….only that for which will build up the body. Ephesians 4:29 says ” Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. ” and that goes for self talk too!  So, my Sistahs, we are agreeing to only say positive and life giving things to those around us and to ourselves!

Got a comment of your own? Feel free to blog along!  You are loved! Susan

Day One

I talked about my Esther year beginning with my birthday March 9th and this is the first day of my Official year.  Esther is a woman of the Bible who was chosen by the King as his wife and leading up to being taken by the King, she spent a full year being made more beautiful for him. . . inside and out.  Because of her influence with the King she was able to save a nation. So, I’ve decided that I’m going to take my own Esther year, working on my health and outward appearance, working on my spritual and heart issues and making sure that I am staying in the scripture and putting beautiful things IN so beautiful will pour out.  If you’d like to join me on this journey this year, I will be keeping up my blog on line of what I’ve been doing, I’m going to offer you some of the homework in scripture that I will be using.  We’re going to have some special guests who will talk about ways to improve our health, our outlook, our self esteem and to just make us beautiful.  You can send me your name and I’ll be praying for you, and you can pray for me, because Susie O’s Sistahs are going  on our Esther journey this year!  

You are Loved,

Susan

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We had Beth on today’s show.  She shure is a little powerhouse!  She has a new event coming to the Berry Center.  It’s called Converge.  It includes CeCe Winans & Travis Cottrell.  Thursday, December 11th. at 7:00pm.   If you would like tickets Click here…

Click below to listen to Beth talk about Converge…

Beth talks about who is at Converge

So where is Converge?

Beth listens to KSBJ???

OK, so I can’t stand those sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving that are covered with the marshmellows.  Maybe you like it, fine, but I bet this one’s better.  It involves GARLIC and ONIONS two of the best things on earth.  Anyhow, My wife Becky put it on her blog last year at this time, and we have had requests for it.  So click here to check it out…

 

 

Chelle is in for Susan this week.  The last time she filled it she talked about how she was interested in getting her daughter into baby modeling. Check out these cute pictures…

Did you know that At 12 o’clock each day we are saying the Lord’s Prayer, inviting  God’s Presence down on this city at the brightest time of day, so that the Son can shine the brightest.

Our goal is to lift ONE MILLION voices in prayer simultaneously and you can become part of this historical prayer outreach by joining the KSBJ Million Voice Prayer Team.

We talked with Terry Teykl about how “Pray Down at High Noon” started and how to get more dependent on God.

If you would like to have Terry speak at your church or would like some materials on prayer check out Terry’s website.   www.renewalministries.com

List to clips of the interview

Terry Talks about how Pray Down At High Noon Started?

Terry talks about why we have neglected to make prayer important…

Terry tells us how to be dependent on God

Terry discuss what type of praying we should be doing…

We had the pleasure of having Clive Berkman with is on the show.  He is a Chef that has owned restaurants in Houston, and has even cooked for President Bush Senior.  His food was amazing.  You can check out his website at www.cookingwithclive.com We have had numerous requests for his Recipes so here you go…

The BEST TURKEY DRESSING EVER

 

1 cup shredded carrots

1 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped onions

1/2 cup margarine or butter (I use olive oil)

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

8 cups dry bread cubes (I only put 2 cups)

2 cups finely chopped peeled apple (I use granny smith)

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I roast them a little bit so that they are crunchier)

1/4 cup toasted wheat germ

1/2 to 1 cup chicken broth

 

I add raisins that I marinate the night before in Marsala

I also add Jimmy Dean seasoned sausage.  I saute it before and remove grease before I add it to the rest of the dressing.

 

In a large skilet cook carrots, celery and onion in margarine or butter ( I use olive oil) till tender.  Stir in nutmeg, 1/4 tsp of salt and 1/4 tsp of pepper.  In a bowl combine bread cubes, apple walnuts, and wheat germ.  Add carrot mixture, raisins and sausage.  Drizzle with enough broth to moisten, tossing lightly.  Use to stuff one 8 to 10 pound turkey.   Makes 8 to 10 servings

 

 

 

 

Five-Hour Sticky Roast Chicken

Serves 4

Spice rub

4 teaspoons of sea salt

2 teaspoons of paprika

1 teaspoon of onion powder

1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon of thyme

1 teaspoon of white pepper

½ teaspoon of garlic powder

½ teaspoon of black pepper

Chicken

1 large roasting chicken

1 cup of chopped onion (for the stuffi ng)

2 tablespoons of olive oil

Thoroughly combine all the ingredients of the spice rub.

Remove all the giblets from the chicken, and clean the cavity well. Wash it and pat dry

with paper towels.

Rub the spice mixture into the chicken, both inside and out, making sure it’s evenly

distributed. Rub it down deep into the skin.

Place the chicken in a re-sealable plastic bag, then seal and refrigerate it overnight.

When you’re ready to roast the chicken, preheat the oven to 250. Stuff the cavity of the

chicken with onions.

Lightly oil a shallow baking pan. Place the stuffed chicken, breast side up, in the baking

pan, and roast it, uncovered, at 250 for 5 hours.

After the fi rst hour, baste the chicken with the pan juices, and continue this process approximately

every half hour until the chicken is done. The pan juices will start to caramelize, and

the chicken will turn golden brown.

Let the chicken sit about 10 minutes before carving and serving.

 

 

 

Whipped Sweet Potatoes

 

3# Sweet Potatoes peeled and cut in 2 inch cubes

4 Cups Apple Cider

3 Cups Water

Peel of an orange

1 Cinnamon stick

1 Bay leaf

1 Clove studded onion

1 Golden delicious apple

1 Banana

1/4 Cup sugar

Juice of 1 orange juice

1 Pint heavy cream

 

Boil sweet potatoes in water and cider with orange peel, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, and an onion studded with cloves.  Cook 20-25 minutes.

 

Melt butter in pan, add sliced banana, diced golden delicious apple and sugar to pan and caramelize. 

Add the orange juice and bring to a gentle boil for 2 minutes.

Add heavy cream and the fruit from the potatoes and bring to a boil for 5 minutes.

 

Remove cinnamon stick and orange peel.

 

Add the potatoes to the mixture and working in small batches puree in a food processor adding cream to thin.  Do not overprocess.

 

The potatoes can be made a day ahead and refrigerated. Reheat in a buttered baking dish at 350 for 25 minutes.

 

Sautee dried cranberries in butter for garnish.

Susan’s Kitty “Tucker” has been gone for two weeks now, and finally she returns.

By the way this is not Susan’s cat…

Liesten to how the homecoming happened…

Imagine having Ty Pennington say move that bus out in front of your new home!!!  Well Extreme makover home edition contacted us to find a family in Houston that needs a new home.  However, you have to act fast because the deadline to nominate someone is Wednesday November 5th.  The major stipulaion is that the nominee has to own their own home and property.  They can’t renovate an apartment complex.

Listen to our interview with Extreme makover…