God wants us to follow a recurring pattern of intense work and then rest, intense work and then rest, and so forth. Whatever view one takes of the Sabbath, surely the six days of work and the one day of rest embedded in the creation remain relevant in some sense. Any routine of life that is unsustainable long-term cannot be of God. He calls us to work. But he also calls us to rest, in order to work most fruitfully. What sets us apart is this. We rest, in order to work; we do not work, in order to rest. We who believe the gospel are not living for the weekend, but for The End. In the meantime, we figure out rhythms of life that make fruitful labor sustainable.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Greek	Greek, Sauces, Meats	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Tomato sauce
2	c	Dry red wine
1	lg	Bay leaf
2		Whole cloves
1/2	ts	Dried oregano or marjoram
		Salt & freshly ground pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare Keftedes Tiganites, but instead of frying, arrange close together
on a baking pan approximately 8 x 11 x 2-inches.  Bake for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small pan combine the tomato sauce, red wine, bay leaf,
cloves, oregano or marjoram, salt and pepper.  Boil for 5 minutes then pour
over the keftedes in the oven.  Reduce the oven heat to 300 degrees and
bake for 40 minutes.  Remove the bay leaf and cloves and serve warm. From:
"The Food of Greece" by Vilma Liacouras Chantiles, Avenel Books, New York.
Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
Sent to me by Bill <wight@odc.net>

A Message from our Provider:

“Many people give thanks to God when He gives. Job gave thanks when He took.”

[The resurrection of the body] is the Christian’s brightest hope. Many believers make a mistake when they long to die and long for Heaven. Those things may be desirable, but they are not the ultimate for the saints. The saints in Heaven are perfectly free from sin and, so far as they are capable of it, are perfectly happy. But a disembodied spirit never can be perfect until it is reunited to its body. God made man not pure spirit but body and spirit, and the spirit alone will never be content until it sees its physical frame raised to its own condition of holiness and glory. Think not that our longings here below are not shared in by the saints in Heaven. They do not groan so far as any pain can be, but they long with greater intensity than you and I for the 'adoption...the redemption of our bodies.' People have said there is no faith in Heaven, and no hope. They know not what they say - in Heaven faith and hope have their fullest swing and their brightest sphere, for glorified saints believe in God’s promise and hope for the resurrection of the body.

C.H. Spurgeon