Make him a minister of the Word! Fling him into his office, tear the office sign from the door and nail on the sign: Study. Take him off the mailing list, lock him up with his books and his typewriter and his Bible. Slam him down on his knees before texts, broken hearts, the flippant lives of a superficial flock, and the Holy God. Force him to be the one man in our surfeited communities who knows about God. Throw him into the ring to box with God until he learns how short his arms are. Let him come out only when he is bruised and beaten into being a blessing. Set a time clock on him that will imprison him with thought and writing about God for 40 hours a week. Shut his garrulous mouth forever spouting "remarks" and stop his tongue always tripping lightly over everything nonessential. Require him to have something to say before he dare break silence. Bend his knees in the lonesome valley, fire him from the PTA and cancel his country club membership; burn his eyes with weary study, wreck his emotional poise with worry for God, and make him exchange his pious stance for a humble walk before God and man. Make him spend and be spent for the glory of God. Rip out his telephone, burn up his ecclesiastical success sheets, refuse his glad hand, and put water in the gas tank of his community buggy. Give him a Bible and tie him in his pulpit and make him preach the Word of the living God. Test him, quiz him and examine him; humiliate him for his ignorance of things divine, and shame him for his glib comprehension of finances, batting averages, and political in-fighting. Laugh at his frustrated effort to play psychiatrist, scorn his insipid morality, refuse his supine intelligence, and compel him to be a minister of the Word. If he dotes on being pleasing, demand that he please God and not man. Form a choir and raise a chant and haunt him with it night and day: "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." When at long last, he dares assay the pulpit, ask him if he has a Word from God; if he does not, then dismiss him and tell him you can read the morning paper, digest the television commentaries, think through the day's superficial problems, manage the community's myriad drives, and bless assorted baked potatoes and green beans ad infinitum better than he can. Command him not to come back until he has read and re-read, written and re-written, until he can stand up, worn and forlorn, and say, "Thus saith the Lord." And when he is burned out by the flaming Word that coursed through him, when he is consumed at last by the fiery Grace blazing through him, and when he who was privileged to translate the truth of God to man is finally translated from earth to heaven, then bear him away gently, blow a muted trumpet and lay him down softly, place a two-edged sword on his coffin and raise a tune triumphant, for he was a brave soldier of the Word and e'er he died he had become a spokesman for his God.

Floyd Shafer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Sainsbury’s, Sainsbury11	4	servings

INGREDIENTS

125	g	Puy lentils; (4oz)
375	g	New potatoes; washed (12oz)
125	g	Oyster or chanterelle mushrooms; (4oz)
4	tb	Olive oil
2		Shallots; finely chopped
1		Clove garlic; crushed
150	ml	Fresh beef stock; ( 1/4 pint)
4		Pork leg steaks
		Salt and freshly ground black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Place the lentils in a saucepan of cold water over a moderate heat bring
the water to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer the lentils until they
are cooked following instructions on the pack.
Place the potatoes in a saucepan of cold water over a moderate heat, bring
to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer until tender this takes
approximately 10 minutes. Drain and refresh under cold water and chop each
potato into 4 pieces.
Wash the mushrooms and pat dry using absorbent kitchen paper. If the
mushrooms are large break them into smaller pieces.
Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a frying pan, add the shallots and garlic
and cook for 1 minute. Add the mushrooms, reduce the heat and cook for 3
minutes until tender. Remove from the heat and add seasoning to taste.
Add the lentils and stock to the mushroom mixture.
Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan over a moderate heat and add the
potatoes, cook until they are crispy and add seasoning to taste. Remove
from the pan and keep warm.
Cut each leg steak into 2 pieces and season them. Place the steaks into the
hot frying pan and cook for 3-4 minutes each side depending on the
thickness of the steak.
Reheat the lentils and mushrooms and spoon onto hot serving plates, place
the crispy potato and the pork on top and serve immediately.
Converted by MC_Buster.
NOTES : Based on a regional dish this embodies the flavours of South
Western France.
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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