Are you running to God during your trials? If not, you are short-cutting the process. You see, when most people, even most Christians have problems, they immediately run to all the sources they have available to bring relief. Some are good, others are bad. The problem is none of them are ultimately effective. We expect people to be our personal Messiahs and they can’t. We use entertainment to numb our troubles and the trouble, though camouflaged, is still there. We abuse substances to turn off the pain and it doesn't. We try food and sex to fight the pain with pleasure and it’s ineffective. These things bring a shallow refuge and temporary reprieve in the little matters, but in the long haul they are proven unsuccessful. That is why God in His love for us wants us to run to Him.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Spanish	Diabetic	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Chopped onions
1	md	Green pepper; chopped
2	tb	Olive oil
8	oz	Tomato sauce
1 1/4	c	Cooked garbanzo beans

INSTRUCTIONS

Saut. onions and pepper in olive oil. Add tomato sauce. Cook over medium
heat for 5 minutes.
Add garbanzo beans. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
Exchanges: All lunch menus this week have about 450 calories total and
include:
2-3 Starch servings 1-2 Meat or Meat Substitute servings 0-2 Vegetable
servings 1 Fruit serving 1 Fat serving
Total Fat -- 15g Total Carbohydrate -- 50g Protein -- 22g
Some menus have 1 Skim Milk serving instead of 1 Meat or 1 Starch serving.
Or 1 Starch serving instead of the Fruit serving.
Recipe for Saturday, 3/7/98 This week we are featuring complete lunch menus
and accompanying recipes from the cookbook Magic Menus for People with
Diabetes, a calorie-controlled collection of the "best of" the
award-winning Month of Meals series of menu planners. You can order a copy
of this and many other cookbooks from our online bookstore or call
1-800-ADA-ORDER (1-800-232-6733).
Lunch: 1 cup Spanish Garbanzo Beans 1/2 cup sliced cucumbers in red wine
vinegar 1/2 cup grapes
Copyright © 1998 American Diabetes Association
MC Fortmatted and MC Busted by Barb at PK <abprice@wf.net>
NOTES : 2 servings/Serving size: 1 cup
Recipe by: American Diabetes Association
Posted to recipelu-digest by "abprice@wf.net" <abprice@wf.net> on Mar 13,
1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Sin: it seemed like a good idea at the time”

Someone once said we are all brought to the same level at the foot of the cross. The cross pours contempt on our pride and screams to us that reconciliation with God was entirely the work of Jesus. The cross screams to us that God justifies all His children with the same infinite love. The cross screams to us that we are all adopted into the same spiritual family in the same way with the same privileges. The cross screams to us that the sins of disunity such as discord, hatred, bitterness, strife, divisiveness, malice, jealousy, envy, disgust, indifference, unforgiveness have all been shattered by the cross and are therefore unacceptable amongst God’s redeemed. The cross teaches us that the grace that saves us results in grace that transforms us to live more like Jesus Christ, the “Prince of Peace” Himself. And the cross teaches us to join Paul in his never-ending refrain of boasting only in the cross (Gal. 6:14). And with our eyes on the cross, we strike a deathblow to our pride which fuels our divisions.

Randy Smith