Click the pink arrow to listen to the audio version of this week’s essay on re-thinking going where we don’t belong. And then keep scrolling for a donut recipe and a book recommendation.
Baked Cinnamon and Sugar Donuts
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, melted and slightly cooled
2/3 cup sugar2 splashes of vanilla extract
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp kosher salt
Cinnamon-sugar coating
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Directions:
Pre-heat the oven to 400F. Spray or lightly grease a donut pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted butter and sugar until well combined. Whisk in the egg, vanilla, and milk.
Add the flour, baking powder, and salt into the bowl and stir into the wet ingredients, until just combined.
Careful spoon the batter into the six donut molds.
Bake for 15 -20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
While the donuts are cooling, prepare two small shallow bowls, one with the melted butter, one with the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Gently brush (or spoon) the donuts with the melted butter and then dip them into the cinnamon and sugar bowl, repeat for both side of the donut.
Enjoy!
What I’m reading now…
Most mornings, after I’ve have my coffee and morning devotions, I head out on a walk around the neighborhood before I sit down at my desk to write. On these walks, I like to listen to podcasts or audiobooks. This week I started listening to Falling Upward by Richard Rohr.
I first tried reading this book a few years ago and didn’t make headway. But as proof that sometimes books have to be read at the right time in our lives to be appreciated, this time the book is resonating with me…
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr.
Here’s how the publisher describes it:
In the first half of life, we are naturally preoccupied with establishing ourselves; climbing, achieving, and performing. But as we grow older and encounter challenges and mistakes, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way. This message of falling down - that is in fact moving upward - is the most resisted and counterintuitive of messages in the world's religions.
Falling Upward offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most profound of life's mysteries: how those who have fallen down are the only ones who understand "up". We grow spiritually more by doing it wrong than by doing it right, and the disappointments of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys in the second half of life.
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