Worry

I woke up this morning, turn on the computer...browse a bit about some stuffs and came across a quote that can somehow be a guideline when I worry about something. Often we came across something accidentally but then that little something can be meaningful for us. Just like the quote below, it's one of those quote I will always look up when I started to worry about something in the future =) It's a quote of Francis Chan, an American preacher. Hope you like it..

“Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives. Stress says the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace towards others, or our tight grip of control. Basically, these two behaviors communicate that it’s okay to sin and not trust God because the stuff in my life is somehow exceptional. Both worry and stress reek of arrogance. They declare our tendency to forget that we’ve been forgiven, that our lives are brief … and that in the context of God’s strength, our problems are small, indeed.”

- Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God - (image via favim)

Simple Pasta

I think today is the right time for recipe sharing...the simple one of course =) Most of us can get really busy in the middle of the week that sometimes we don't have enough time to prepare ourselves a decent meal. But I found this meal that we can prepare in only 10 minutes. It's Baby Spinach, Tomato and Basil Pasta made by Veggieful. Below is the recipe. 

Baby Spinach, Tomato and Basil Pasta

Ingredients:

•  300g angel hair pasta
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup basil, chopped
• 3-4 cups baby spinach
• 4 cups tomato, diced
• 1 red chilli, de-seeded and minced (optional)
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Lemon wedges to serve

Directions:

1. Cook angel hair pasta according to package instructions.
2. Toss garlic, basil, baby spinach, tomato and chilli in a large bowl.
3. Add a little drizzle of olive oil.
4. Take pasta off heat and drain once ready.
5. Add to the bowl with the fresh yum yums.
6. Drizzle olive oil in to coat. Toss carefully to combine.
7. Serve with salt and pepper and squeeze on the lemon wedges.

Tips

• Don't forget that angel hair cooks very quickly.
• You can substitute red chilli for dried red chilli flakes if needed.

(recipe and images by Veggieful.com)

Questions..

I found all the images below from thoughtquestions. Every question requires an answer, an answer that's not hard, not easy but full of thoughts. Maybe we can easily answer the questions below but when we think about it more and more, we can spend time to re-think about the answer...

(all images via thoughtquestions)

Organize Your Things..

Thinking about doing some cleaning of the messy stuff? I love cleaning up and organizing messy things. It's one of my satisfaction if I can get all those messy things become neat. Do you know how Monica from Friends TV series loves to clean up all the messy things? That's exactly how I feel when I got a chance to clean the clean out the clutter =) Here are some ideas to clean the clutter in your house, your room or maybe your office. Simple but clever ideas. 

(Keep Matching Sheets Together in the Closet)

(Desk organizer)

(Button as earring holder)

                               

(Fold a fitted sheet)

(Shoe box as drawer divider)

(image source: marthastewart, marthastewart, realsimple, stephmodo, realsimple)

Grow Better..

Hi everyone, I'm back from my holiday. This last week was a Ramadan holiday here in my country. So I was enjoying myself and try to stay away from the computer =p It was a holiday full of family gathering, for the last four days I was busy going here and there visiting all the other families. It was tiring but it was fun knowing that you still have families that care for you and those that you care also. So, here I am back on my blog. I think it would be nice to start the new days after holiday by reading some stuff that can make us grow even better as a human. Here is an article called "12 Tough Truths that Help You Grow" via Marc and Angel.

12 Tough Truths that Help You Grow

1. Everything is as it should be. It’s crazy how you always end up where you’re meant to be – how even the most tragic and stressful situations eventually teach you important lessons that you never dreamed you were going to learn. Remember, oftentimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place.
2. Not until you are lost in this world can you begin to find your true self. Realizing you are lost is the first step to living the life you want. The second step is leaving the life you don’t want. Making a big life change is pretty scary. But you know what’s even scarier? Regret. Vision without action is a daydream, and action without vision is a nightmare. Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it. Read Awaken the Giant Within.
3. It’s usually the deepest pain which empowers you to grow to your full potential. It’s the scary, stressful choices that end up being the most worthwhile. Without pain, there would be no change. But remember, pain, just like everything in life, is meant to be learned from and then released.
4. One of the hardest decisions you will ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or take another step forward. If you catch yourself in a cycle of trying to change someone, or defending yourself again someone who is trying to change you, walk away. But if you are pursuing a dream, take another step. And don’t forget that sometimes this step will involve modifying your dream, or planning a new one – it’s OK to change your mind or have more than one dream.
5. You have to take care of yourself first. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before correcting others, you have to correct yourself. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It’s not called selfishness, it’s called personal development. Once you balance yourself, only then can you balance the world around you.
6. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself, can you own yourself.
7. You may need to be single for awhile before you realize that, although the co-owned belongings from your failed relationships might not have been divided equally, the issues that destroyed the relationships likely were. For how can you stand confidently alone, or see the same issues arising in your newest relationship, and not realize which broken pieces belong to you? Owning your issues, and dealing with them, will make you far happier in the long run, than owning anything else in this world.
8. The only thing you can absolutely control is how you react to things out of your control. The more you can adapt to the situations in life, the more powerful your highs will be, and the more quickly you’ll be able to bounce back from the lows in your life. Put most simply: being at peace means being in a state of complete acceptance of all that is, right here, right now.
9. Some people will lie to you. Remember, an honest enemy is better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say, and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth, which will help you measure the true quality of your relationship in the long-term.
10. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough. If you are thankful for what you do have, you will end up having even more. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul. Abundance is not about how much you have, it’s how you feel about what you have. When you take things for granted, your happiness gets taken away.
11. Yes, you have failed in the past. But don’t judge yourself by your past, you don’t live there anymore. Just because you’re not where you want to be today doesn’t mean you won’t be there someday. You can turn it all around in the blink of an eye by making a simple choice to stand back up – to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again.
12. Everything is going to be alright; maybe not today, but eventually. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong. And you might feel like you will be stuck in this rut forever, but you won’t. Sure the sun stops shining sometimes, and you may get a huge thunderstorm or two, but eventually the sun will come out to shine. Sometimes it’s just a matter of us staying as positive as possible in order to make it to see the sunshine break through the clouds again.

(article via marcandangel.com - image via weheartit.com)

Be Open...

I am completely in love with this Buddha quote. Sometimes we don't have to worry about things that bother us too much. All we can do is just let ourselves to be open with things and telling ourselves that not all things are suitable for our mind and all we can do perhaps it to let go of those things. Let our mind be at ease...

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

- Buddha - 

(image via favim)