(Recipe: Pumpkin French Toast Casserole)
Since my surgery last May, I have had trouble walking. Moving around the house is “no big deal”. I can do that just fine. It’s when I try to take a walk that legs and feet don’t work right. I long to be able to take a nice brisk walk, burning calories, and, on occasion, walking with my husband. Right now, there is no brisk walk. No burning calories. And my husband has no patience for a “very slow” walk. Walking has been on my mind a lot. Using my concordance, I wondered what the Bible had to say about how we should be walking. I plan to highlight a different verse throughout the month, all encouraging us in our “walk with Christ”. I may be unable to take a brisk walk, but I can certainly walk as Christ would command me to. Let’s take a look at what the Bible tells us.
I came to know Christ as my Savior in l958. Thus began a new journey with God. It was on that August day that I began a new life. In April of 1959 I was baptized, proclaiming to the world that I was indeed, living a new life. Exactly what God tells us in Romans 6:4 – “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” KJV
What does that new life look like? First, it is a command from God. Second, it takes on the look of a life cleansed and forgiven of all past and present sins. This new life looks like a child of God, reflecting the character of the Father. Old desires have been buried – godly desires now take their place. It may even mean giving up certain friends, certain activities, certain actions all for the sake of walking with Christ. Our life has changed, so does our walk.
Are you a child of God? Is this your desire? To walk in “newness of life”. As a child of God, a daughter of The King, this is what I desire to do. And this kind of walking I can do!
Pumpkin French Toast Casserole
½ cup butter
12 slices of white bread
½ cup brown sugar
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
¼ - ½ cup pumpkin
½ tsp. vanilla
5 eggs
1-1/2 cup milk
Melt butter and pour into a 9 x 13 pan. Mix the brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice together. In separate bowl beat eggs, milk and vanilla. Spread a thin layer of pumpkin (like you would butter a piece of bread) on 6 slices of bread. Place in the casserole dish.
Sprinkle ½ of the sugar & spice mixture over top. Repeat with other 6 slices of bread. Pour eggs over all. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Leave covered and bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake 15 minutes longer till golden brown and set.
Serve hot. Can sprinkle with Confectioners sugar, or serve with syrup, whipped cream or plain.
