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One Skillet Quinoa Dish Recipe

3/14/2017

Hello dear readers...today I thought I would share one of the recipe cards I decided to have printed to hand out to clients who visit me in the wellness center. I would love your input.

I would like to know:
- is the recipe easy to understand at your skill level
- do you have questions, need more specific details
- did the end result taste good to you and your family

Recipe cards offer limited space to give instructions, so it is challenge to find simple enough ones to fit on a 4x6 card. The recipe book will allow me to offer more creative healthy living recipes.

Thank you in advance for your input!

Are We Asked to Go Big …or Small?

3/11/2017

As I write this I have just returned from the first evening of the IF Christian womens’s conference at Blackhawk Church in Madison. It was a wonderful evening of Spirit led worship music and speakers. For each woman present, I am sure that the messages resonated and something said hit home into the heart.
For myself it was a line by Jennie, our first speaker, “Our world and its values are so different than what God values. We are distracted trying to do BIG things when God is asking us to pay attention to the small.”
Prior to my husband passing away I was focused on the BIG…growing a business that could bring in expotential income. Income that would allow him to retire early so that we could travel, and reconnect with one another. But God had other plans… the partner I planned to grow old with was called to his Heavenly home.
Because of our journey with cancer God has made it very clear that all happens for a reason, and in my case, to put me on a path towards a calling that ties in with my focus, but He is taking it to a higher realm. Reaffirmed by several who have been given divine messages to relay to me, or people who get a “sense” when talking to me that what I now do is only the beginning of His great plan. It is a much smaller plan than what I had intended, in some respects. It is not a plan that is going to make me rich or bring fame. Yet in its “smallness” it is huge to His people, whom God loves, and finds benefit from the wellness I can help to provide.

Another take away… GO SMALLER, DEEPER, QUIETER.
In this noisy world there is so much that distracts us from God. As a high energy person, my being wired to always be on the go, it is difficult for me to sit in the quietness of His holy presence. A friend of mine is very good at being in “quietness” – I believe there is a lesson to be learned from their daily practice. It is only in quiet mindfulness that we can disconnect from the noisy world around us, tap into our higher frequency, and reconnect with a God who wants us to renew our minds in Him.
In a world where we are programmed to “GO BIG” , instead, I am going to redirect my mind to quiet focus on God, His calling in my life, and “GO SMALL”. It is in obedience to the path He has prepared for me to walk that I will be rewarded with riches much greater than any material wealth of this earth.

Peace,
Rita S.

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Rita Shimniok, CMSA

Health advocate, educator and wellness consultant...I am a forever student of integrative and holistic approaches to wellness.
This blog is dedicated to everyone who is on a wellness journey. Each journey is unique, yet we may share commonalities. You and I may follow some of the same alternative and holistic brilliant minds who practice outside the box of traditional medicine. We may be eliminating the same food groups from our diets. Perhaps you have successfully turned your health around, as have I done, or you are eager to learn more of how you may do so.
With each and every day I believe there is a lesson to be learned. Life is an experience. We all make mistakes, I know I do! But the only true mistake is one in which we don't learn from our errors, or we cease to seek out knowledge from those who have become wise on the journey.
Much of the information on this website, and this blog, are the result of my own wellness journey, and my husband's journey with a terminal cancer diagnosis and an undiagnosed advanced Lyme disease - which ultimately contributed to his earthly body failing him. Yet his Spirit was intact and whole, and he rejoiced the day he went home to his Creator God.

It is my hope that you embrace LIFE, and live intentionally from experience!

One Skillet Quinoa Dish Recipe

Are We Asked to Go Big …or Small?

Rita Shimniok, CMSA

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