If ever we have a Padre Tomas Caminoheads Cookbook, cheesy grits are going to be in there. This is a Premire Father Tom breakfast item and wish he would get back here to run some quality control on us and to make sure we are up to snuff. Also served over easy eggs and fruit salad this morning to complete our construction worker’s breakfast.

Funny there in the previous sentence is the word served as in “served over easy eggs…”. That has never occured to me before that use of the word. Christ calls us to serve, to be a servant. He demonstrates this to me most fully when he washes the feet of the disciples. I don’t recall anywhere in the Bible where He cooks and serves food although the serving of the bread and wine at the first Eucharist was a serving for sure. Hmmm.

I came back from Spain a year and a half ago and was totally inspired to cook and to “serve”, to serve tapas and wine and good simple foods for my fellow pilgrims here just as I had been served there along the Camino. All along the trail so many folks kept up that tradition that you couldn’t help but catch it.

So now, just a reminder that Valentine’s Day is coming up on Sunday. An opportunity to serve, to give something to those around us, wherever we find ourselves. We aren’t in a coma or a prison camp, must be something we can rig up.

OK, off to Our Jennifer’s to make some progress on the bathroom remodel. She has company coming in from out of town and I will probably get a few days off from that to work on stuff around the ranch. Rainy days I will be finishing up my books for taxes and dry days getting firewood in for next winter. Yup, that’s what February means around here.

The best to you friends wherever you are today. Servant love, Felipe.