Saturday, May 06, 2023

A New Place, A New Space

Alice Virginia Lee SchulthessDear Friends and Subscribers: It seems April is "my great faith month!" Listen to this: I was baptized at my former-pastor maternal grandmother's church (Virginia Lee Schulthess) on April 3, 1955 (Palm Sunday!) in Clarno, Wis.; 67 years later (at age 67) I was licensed as a minister (which would have made G'ma proud) on April 10, 2022 (Palm Sunday!) in the town wherein my paternal great-grandfather's immediate family is buried - Franklin Grove, Ill.; (Here I am posing in front of our altar and beautiful blue-glass cross with ACGC's  Superintendent of the Central Region for the Prairie States conference, Dr. Bill Norwood) --
and called to the pulpit of my now-hometown Prophetstown, in the same state, to be pastor at the beautiful and loving Advent Christian Church on April 27, 2023 (25 days after Palm Sunday 2023!). Perhaps I should purchase a palm tree to celebrate! Palm Sunday can be thought of as "the beginning of the journey of how God saved the world through the death and resurrection of Jesus." (Credit to Saleen Martin of USA Today, citing Bishop Vashti McKenzie, interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches, on April 1, 2023). I am very delighted! 

Sunday, February 07, 2021

I have a YouTube Channel Now!


Dear Friends who visit my blogsite - I'll try to be more active on here. Lately, I've been busy - I'm going to seminary, and am a pastor locally at Advent Christian Church in Prophetstown. Visit my YouTube Channel where you can hear my sermons. It's relatively new, but I'll be growing it I hope, as time goes on and permits. Blessings to you all! Stay well!  Love, Diana

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Friday, April 20, 2018

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

View from the room of my hostel, Venice, Mother's Day vacation, 2017.

My oldest son right where he likes to be ... in the thick of it all.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017


My youngest son Jon is the editor and producer of this video.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Had a bad day? Watch this. Enjoy!

Laughed until I cried.

I don't even like soccer, but this video was the best thing i've seen today :P (not car related, but worth a watch!)

Posted by Street FX Motorsport & Graphics on Sunday, May 3, 2015

Monday, February 23, 2015

I'll never get enough of this

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Trifle!

Here's the ingredients and recipe: Trifle Ingredients Fresh baked angel food cake (two); Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur (brown bottle); (use about 4-5 oz) Rose's Grenadine (red); use about 4-5 oz. Two pints fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced; two banannas, sliced and tossed in lemon juice; about 3/4 cup toasted coconut Homemade burnt sugar vanilla pudding (use vanilla pudding from Betty Crocker receipe book; add burnt sugar syrup or let first ingredients carmelize a little in pan creating the burnt sugar effect); About 1.5 cups whipping cream about 1.2 C of cane sugar ** Prepare the pudding in advance though it will drizzle better when warm. Start it at about 10 a.m. Toast the angel food cake by slicing it in half and placing under broiler. Stand by and watch it - pull out after it starts to carmelize and flip it, repeating on the other side. Let sit. Wash, hull and slice strawberries, set aside. Slice bananas - drizzle with lemon juice and toss; Tear or gently slice angel food cake into large bite-sized chunks. Layer ingredients - beginning with cake at the bottom. Cake Strawberries Drizzle with Godiva and Grenadine; Cake Bananas, drizzle, etc., until fruit and cake are about an inch and a half from top of Trifle bowl. Set aside. Whip cream with sugar until it holds its shape but not until it's stiff, or half if it to stiff the other half half way. Cover top of trifle with the loosest cream, so that it snakes its way down through the cake and fruit; Cover the trifle with the stiffer cream. Put about 3/4 c of coconut on a cookie sheet and place under broiler - stand and watch. When it is toasted take it out and let it cool. Layer top of trifle with the toasted coconut - you can hold off and do this before serving. Trifle may be best when done the night before. This is my OWN recipe, and I hope you enjoy it and if you share it, link my blog. Thanks!

Friday, November 29, 2013