What’s up Guys,
It’s hard for me to believe that it is already almost August of 2010. Seems like this year just got started! They say that time flies when you’re having fun.
There are a few new ideas on the Specials this week and I thought it would be fun to run the “Bring a Friend to Kairos on us Week” again. I hope you will all take advantage of the coupon.
One of my favorite dishes is the Chicken Florentine, and our best selling specials are our pasta dishes. I’ve been toying with the idea for some time about how to combine the delicious goodness of the Chicken Florentine into a baked ziti dish, and I think I’ve hit the nail on the head with the Kairos Chicken Florentine Baked Ziti. It combines ziti pasta with tender pieces of chicken in our creamy Florentine Sauce, with Spinach, Mozzarella, and Parmesan Cheese. Mmmmm...
Jeremy and I were talking this week about how we originally started with just two Ziti dishes (Meat or Cheese) and now we have so many. It certainly has been a fun time coming up with new recipes and watching you guys enjoy them! I hope you will give me your feedback on the new one.
Look for us in Friday’s City Scene (August 6th)
They are featuring Kairos Cream of Potato Soup, and you will also be able to get the recipe. That’s the Soup for this week and the veggie is sautéed Broccoli with Cheese Sauce.
The T.G.I.H. Special has sure been a hit this week! I made up this dish a few years ago when my doctor said I had to get on a better diet. It is packed with flavor and it’s good for you to boot! Albacore Tuna topped with sautéed spinach, grape tomatoes, and peppers... it makes me happy that it is catching on!
This has been an interesting week for me, both at Kairos and in my personal life. I was reminded earlier in the week how necessary it is for me to never forget where I’ve come from...in many different ways, both as a person and the geographical hometown that I grew up in.
It amazes me sometimes how in our own human nature we forget the places that God has brought us out of, and if we are not careful, it is easy to get haughty about it. It seems like we will go ahead and put ourselves up on a pedestal if we are not careful. It’s like when somebody smokes for 25 years and finally quits... then everybody that smokes is so bad...
The funny thing about those pedestals is that if I put myself up on one, then sooner or later I’m gonna have to fall. It just works like that. I have learned that lesson the hard way.
I want to live my life from a place of mercy. “Lord Have Mercy” is one of my favorite prayers because God has shown me so much mercy over my lifetime while I was out doing some very stupid things. I honestly marvel at the fact that I made it out alive with some of the things I was involved in when I was younger. It is so cool the way that Jesus works... now all I have to do is give others that same mercy that I have received, and when I do, my life is a beautiful place.
Wednesday morning I found out that my Aunt Brenda had suffered a Stroke and they weren’t sure if she would live or die... I wasn’t sure what to do, but Jeremy assured me that they could handle Kairos, and my whole staff all jumped together and did a marvelous job in my absence. One comment I heard was “...James, I didn’t even know you were gone...” to me, that is the greatest compliment that anyone could give my staff, and it made me so proud to be a part of this place called Kairos.
My Aunt made a miraculous recovery and was singing and praising God by the time we made it to Phenix City. After spending the day with my family I felt weird because the focus that day had been on reflecting on what God was doing in the life of my Aunt and her family. I can honestly say I don’t ever remember having such a conversation with that part of my family before...and I was in awe because God can and will do His work in places where we think it is impossible. I witnessed that this week.
May we all be people who are determined to look for the good in every situation, even the impossible ones that we don’t understand, and may we all be people who not only receive Mercy, but that extend that same Mercy to the hurting world around us as well.
God Bless You and have a wonderful week!
James K Jones
He (Jesus) told his next story to some who were complacently pleased with themselves over their moral performance and looked down their noses at the common people:
"Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax man. The Pharisee posed and prayed like this: 'Oh, God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, crooks, adulterers, or, heaven forbid, like this tax man. I fast twice a week and tithe on all my income.'
"Meanwhile the tax man, slumped in the shadows, his face in his hands, not daring to look up, said, 'God, give mercy. Forgive me, a sinner.'"
Jesus commented, "This tax man, not the other, went home made right with God. If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face, but if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."
Luke 18:9-14 (The Message)
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