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Gossip leaves a wide trail of devastation wherever and however it goes – word of mouth, email, blogging, YouTube. It erodes trust and destroys morale. It creates a social environment of suspicion where everyone must wonder what is being said behind their backs and whether appearances of friendship are sincere. It ruins hard-won reputations with cowardly but effective weapons of misrepresentation. It manipulates people into taking sides when no such action is necessary or beneficial. It unleashes the dark powers of psychological transference, doing violence to the gossiper, to the one receiving the gossip and to the person being spoken against. It makes the Body of Christ look like the Body of Antichrist – destroyers rather than healers. It exhausts the energies we would otherwise devote to positive witness. It robs our Lord of the Church he deserves. It exposes the hostility in our hearts and discredits the gospel in the eyes of the world. Then we wonder why we don’t see more conversions, why “the ground is so hard.”

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The road is rugged, and the sun is hot. How can we be but weary? Here is grace for the weariness – grace which lifts us up and invigorates us; grace which keeps us from fainting by the way; grace which supplies us with manna from heaven, and with water from the smitten rock. We receive of this grace, and are revived. Our weariness of heart and limb departs. We need no other refreshment. This is enough. Whatever the way be – rough, gloomy, unpleasant – we press forward, knowing that the same grace that has already carried thousands through will do the same for us.

Horatius Bonar

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Pineapple Coconut Pie (Amish Cooking)

January 24, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Eggs		Fruit-, Pie	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Eggs
1	c	Sugar
1	tb	Cornstarch
1/2	c	Drained crushed pineapple
1/2	c	Light corn syrup
1/4	c	Shredded coconut
1/4	c	Melted butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Beat the eggs slightly, then add the remaining ingredients. Blend the
mixture well, then pour it into a 9-inch unbaked pie shell. Bake the pie at
350 oF for 45 to 50 minutes or until it is slightly set.
Recipe by: Amish Cooking, Herald Press, ISBN 0-8361-3600-4
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #826 by 4paws@netrax.net (Shermeyer-Gail) on
Oct 04, 1997

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