Do you ever look in your refrigerator or the shelves where you keep your grocery staples and say, “I just don’t have anything that I can use to make something good to eat.” I guess I’ll have to go out to a restaurant. Or maybe I’ll go to a fast-food drive-through. Or I could  get a delivery service to bring food to my door.

Sometimes we fail to see the resources we have sitting right in front of our eyes. I have an imaginative son who is especially good at assessing what he has and creating a desirable outcome.

Such was the situation in my kitchen recently with enterprising son as Chef and me as Sous Chef. He asked me what I would like to have to eat for supper. (‘Supper’ instead of ‘dinner’ is what we always called our last meal of the day when I was growing up.)

I said I would like a pasta dish. His searching eyes found a box of lasagna. That sounded good to me. A baked lasagna casserole? Okay, but I’m really hungry and want to eat soon. No problem.

Right away big, fat lasagna noodles were boiling furiously on the range top, steam turning the kitchen into a sauna! Pasta boiled until it was super soft, and he added canned diced tomatoes, frozen spinach, minced garlic, Italian seasonings, and cheese. In a short while his hot, home-made food was on the table! And it turned out to be delicious!

Look around. See what assets you have instead of thinking about what you don’t have. Whether it is fixing a meal, decorating your living space, or straightening out your life, answers may be directly in front of you!

Turning Ideas Into Reality
Connie Carlisle Polley, 2024
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