Things I Love Today...

Today, I love...
I love...weather warm enough to dry the towels in an hour! So fabulous! Just the right weather to walk around without a jacket (at least as far as the foreigners are concerned...the locals are still wearing winter coats, but spring is here. Soon to come are the days of 5 minute towel drying weather! I'm not quite ready for the 113 degree heat yet, but I'm loving spring!).I love...good Chinese food (good is a term I use loosely) and fabulous Turkish friends who will humor you enough to go with you to eat it! It was so worth the 2 buses we again rode to get there! Delish, just delicious. Sweet and sour chicken hit the spot!
I love...having a friend as great as this one here, and not being the only one who doesn't know how to use her chop-sticks! I love this girl. I love...America salsa in my refridgerator that I bought from the American bazar...even if I did pay roughly 15 dollars for it. A girl has got to do what a girl has got to do every now and then. You may make note that it has already been opened. (smile.) It's a good thing, I just now found that American bazar or I might not have been able to hold out this long! Every now and then a treat is just nice! We're wild for mild.
I love...my family and our traditions that travelled to Turkey this year...dying Easter eggs (a tradition I have missed doing with my dad for the second time probably almost since birth! I'm a daddy's girl, old traditions die hard. Leave us be, we love us some quality time.) and making pounds and pounds of deviled eggs (momma's recipe) that apparently Turkish people love! and being able to share with our friends how important Easter is to us and why. The deviled eggs symbolized new life, I shared, but I conveniently left out their traditional America name. No need to try and explain. Is deviled a cooking term? I'm sure so, but there's no translation and there's no room for me to translate 'eggs of satan' here so...the name was omitted!
I love...a celebration because of what we celebrated Sunday and good conversation over who we are, in whose image we were created, why we were created, and how our lives can be redeemed. Conversation that is even sweeter knowing it's between those who know and have chosen and are covered in His righteousness and those who have never had the priviledge to hear or choose.
I love...more sweet friends, some who know Him and some who don't. But all laughing and loving and those who know sharing the love that He's given us with those that don't. Easter just does not get much better than this. To remember Who He is, Hallelujah, that He is Risen. He is Risen Indeed. To appreciate my salvation in deeper new ways daily in a land of darkness and to share it.