{"id":23075,"date":"2026-03-11T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/her-recipe-for-joy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:15:33","slug":"her-recipe-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/her-recipe-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Recipe for Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving morning I chopped bacon and Brussels sprouts&mdash;ingredients for a surprise dish I was serving with my traditional turkey dinner&mdash;and tried to calm my nerves. <em>Robin, you&rsquo;re a good cook, a professional food editor. Don&rsquo;t worry, you&rsquo;ve got this. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it was the first holiday I&rsquo;d be cooking for my new husband, Ken, and my three stepchildren&mdash;along with 25 guests. What if they didn&rsquo;t like this recipe, or <em>anything <\/em>I made? <em>Lord, <\/em>I prayed, <em>please don&rsquo;t let me blow this!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was funny, really, me in this scenario. Because I never thought I&rsquo;d have a husband and kids to cook for. Or that I&rsquo;d be talking to God. Or that I&rsquo;d be living back home in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>I was the classic small-town girl with big-city dreams. Right after I graduated from the University of Dayton, I fled the state for culinary school in San Francisco. I was smitten with the city. I found the perfect job&mdash;restaurant critic for the <em>San Francisco Chronicle. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>My career was my passion. I&rsquo;d decided I didn&rsquo;t want to get married. Marriage didn&rsquo;t fit into my plans. Neither did God. I hadn&rsquo;t grown up praying or going to church. Why start now? My life was busy enough.<\/p>\n<p>Then, 13 years after I&rsquo;d left Ohio, for good, I thought, my dad passed away. Suddenly big-city life didn&rsquo;t seem so fulfilling. I longed to be near my sister and three brothers, who&rsquo;d all stayed close to home.<\/p>\n<p>One night I caught myself praying. Maybe not quite praying. The prayer seemed to say itself, but it came from me. <em>Lord, if you want me in Ohio, give me a sign. <\/em>The prayer kept saying itself. That had to be my sign, right? I headed home.<\/p>\n<p>I had been back for about a month when I attended a University of Dayton alumni dinner. A handsome man with sparkly green eyes approached me.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Ken,&rdquo; he said, extending his hand.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nice to meet you. I&rsquo;m Robin. Class of eighty-seven.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Me too!&rdquo; he said. Ken and I hadn&rsquo;t known each other in college, but talking to him felt so easy and familiar. I told him that I&rsquo;d recently lost my dad and he confided that he&rsquo;d lost his wife to breast cancer a year earlier. He was raising their children, 10-year-old Ben and 8-year-old twins, Molly and Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the night, I gave him my phone number&mdash;something I&rsquo;d never done before.<\/p>\n<p>We started dating. It didn&rsquo;t take long for me to see that Ken&rsquo;s faith was what had carried him through his wife&rsquo;s illness and death. I wondered what it would be like to have that kind of spiritual sustenance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to pray more,&rdquo; I told him. &ldquo;How do I do that?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pray often and everywhere. Just talk to God. You&rsquo;ll get the hang of it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The more I prayed, the more I felt certain that it <em>was <\/em>God who&rsquo;d brought me back to Ohio&mdash;to this wonderful man and his beautiful children. Two years after we met, Ken and I were married in his church, which became my church too.<\/p>\n<p><!--pagebreak--><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I was a stepmom. I didn&rsquo;t know much about kids, but I could bring one thing to the table: food. I made dinner, school lunches, breakfast on the weekends, and took the kids food shopping.<\/p>\n<p>One day after a trip to the market, Sarah ran up to Ken. &ldquo;Dad! It&rsquo;s amazing! Robin knows everything at the grocery store!&rdquo; she said. We all laughed. Food connected us, bringing us even closer.<\/p>\n<p>Still, standing here in the kitchen on our first Thanksgiving together, I was nervous. All these people, including my new family. Could I really pull it off? <em>Can I, Lord?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I prepared the classics&mdash;turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes. Then added the Brussels sprouts with bacon for the vegetable dish.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe was one I&rsquo;d developed at work. It mixed the steamed and halved sprouts with chopped bacon and apple juice&mdash;a delicious intermingling of flavors. But would my guests agree?<\/p>\n<p>I finished cooking and set dinner up buffet-style in the kitchen. Everyone filled their plates and raved about the food. Only the Brussels sprouts were hardly touched. <em>Oh, no&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then I heard Sarah talking to Molly, Ben and their cousins. &ldquo;You guys should try these. They&rsquo;re awesome!&rdquo; she said. Her plate was piled high with sprouts. On her recommendation, everyone else had a taste. Then they came back for seconds and thirds.<\/p>\n<p>Today that dish is part of our family Thanksgiving tradition. And it&rsquo;s a reminder to me that when we&rsquo;re open to God&rsquo;s plan, he fills our lives with an abundance of blessings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Try Robin&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/inspiration\/recipes\/side-dish-recipes\/brussels-sprouts-with-bacon?int_source=Article&amp;int_medium=EndOfArticle&amp;int_campaign=RecipeRobinDavis\">Brussels Sprouts with Bacon<\/a> recipe for yourself!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Download your FREE ebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/free-ebooks\/prayer-every-need\/download\">A Prayer for Every Need, by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving morning I chopped bacon and Brussels sprouts&mdash;ingredients for a surprise dish I was serving with my traditional turkey dinner&mdash;and tried to calm my nerves. Robin, you&rsquo;re a good cook, a professional food editor. Don&rsquo;t worry, you&rsquo;ve got this. 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