Hi y’all!  It’s Roxy, another part of the AHM staff. I’m over community partnerships and love meeting with our partners throughout the Los Angeles area!

Hope y’all are blessing yourselves and filling your home with goodness in this time. It’s hard. It’s easy to binge watch Netflix and it can be hard to open ya Bible or do whatever you need to keep yourself in high spirits. For me some days have been great and others not so much.

Over and over again I have heard the story of Mark 4:35-41 told in a variety of perspectives during quarantine. In verse 35 Jesus says, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.” Then Jesus and His disciples hopped in a boat and started heading that way but a storm arose. Verses 38-40 say, “But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die? He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Then He said to them, “Why are you fearful? Do you still have no faith?”

We gotta trust God that even in the storm we’re gunna get to the other side. Being anxious and feeling all the emotions during this time is human and normal. With God we have the ability to find peace in this storm. Somehow in surrender I believe we have the ability to lay down on a pillow besides Jesus and find rest in the stern of the ship.

I’ve been doing all kinds of self care activities during quarantine so if you need some ideas I got you! Here’s what I’ve been up to:

  1. BAKING BREAD. You know quarantine is real when you find me in the kitchen. Ok but seriously I don’t ever want to buy a loaf from the store again. Recipe: https://leitesculinaria.com/99521/recipes-jim-laheys-no-knead-bread.ht

  2. Dalgona coffee. For all my coffee lovers this is the new wave of trendy coffee to try. Ya it takes like 20 minutes to whip up but we got time now right? Here’s a how to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hixQ_-VtElM 

  3. Connecting. I’ve been using Houseparty to play games with friends every week. It’s an app where you can facetime & play a game at the same time: https://houseparty.com 

  4. Podcasts. My mind goes wild if I don’t fill it with good news. So I listen to uplifting podcasts during the day to help guide my mind to dwell on good things. My fav is Thirty minutes with The Perrys: https://theperryspodcast.libsyn.com

Much love to y’all! Please send in prayer requests if you have any and our team will cover you.

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